(Left) Mt. Ontake erupted some 540,000 years ago and is still active. One can observe its ancient lava flow continuing to (Middle) the huge 72m monolith at the Gandate Park. Through an easy trail from this park visitors can reach (Right) the Neo Waterfall of 72m, classifed as one of the 100 best waterfalls in Japan

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During the past 2 winter seasons, I was in Niseko Hokkaido. My motive was to see with my own eyes the state of internationalization which started with Australian skiers but now becoming real global with winter lovers from all over the world. And last year, I worked  as a ski instructor in a Australian snow […]

In my post on the 2nd September, I was talking about possibilities of promoting tourism in rural areas by organizing primary school “nature classes” during the academic year. Recently I found out about a government project aiming at imprementing this on a national scale.
This is a joint of the Ministry of Education and Science, the […]