Day 68 (June 19, 2017)

Shiojiri, Nagano β†’ Shiojiri Pass β†’ Upper Suwa, Nagano

Map of Nagano with author’s route from Shiojiri to Upper Suwa highlighted.

Open map in Gaia GPS β†’

T-shirts drying on a pole.

A very green ricefield with a line of snow-capped peaks on the horizon.

πŸ“ Shiojiri, Nagano

A bosozuku-style purple Nissan.
Closeup of a rear wheel of the bosozuku-style purple Nissan.

Rear view of the same car, with mountains on the horizon.

πŸ“ Shiojiri, Nagano

Holy mother of purple bosozuku Nissans! Parked in the weeds, on rims the size and shape of medieval mortars, with a panoramic view of the Kiso Mountains, it was the most delightful thing on wheels I’d come across since I left Kagoshima.


A panoramic view of Lake Suwa, the Yatsu-ga-dake Mountains, and Mount Fuji on the horizon.

πŸ“ Shiojiri Pass, Nagano – πŸ—» First view of Mount Fuji

Looking down on a twisting road, village houses, ricefields, and mountains on the horizon.

πŸ“ Lower Suwa, Nagano
These Walking Dreams is a visual field diary of a 4,300-kilometer walk from one end of Japan to the other, in the spring and summer of 2017.