Visiting Matsumoto/Carlos Pueblo
We took an
advice from two ladies staff at Shizuoka station to take Shinkansen
back to
Nagoya station and transferred to an express trains to Matsumoto. It
was turned
out exceptionally across the Japanese Alps with mountain view with
snow cap
peak far away. It also reminds me my experience in the American West
and New
England except I am not worrying about the road side. It is an advantage
of Japanese
railroad systems, comfortable, efficient, and comfortable for a long
journey.
After checking in to the hotel nearby the famous Castle, we marched to
top three
ranking Castles of Japan to join a good size of visitors. It was a beautiful
day.
I did have a
similar train riding experience last time when I travel on the coastal
line of the
Sea of Japan. I cut down to the southwest from Kanazawa to Osaka
via Lake
Biwa. There are so many lovely mountain townships with hot springs to
offer and
farms, temples, and castles to visit similar to this route, the heart of the
rural of
Japan. I can stop at any town one after another to enjoy hanami, spring
blossom, or
fall foliage, koyo. The advantage is that I don’t have to drive. Another
of my dream
is to meet the harvest of peaches, nectarines, purple grapes that I
have seen so
many vine type of farms along the way.
On the
second day of Matsumoto after the first afternoon of the Castle tour, we
went to
visit Nagano, about one hour train ride to finish the rest of Nagano Express
from Nagoya
a day before. We went to visit the Zenkoji Buddhist Temple. A day after
Nagano, I
kept on going to visit Karuizawa to locate the famous Michiko tennis courts
where the
Empress met her future Emperor husband. Amy went on to see the inside
of the
Castle. We ran into each other on a street corner near the station.
Matsumoto’s
visit was short yet very relax. I felt that I should do more study before
I go to
visit more places of interesting such as the Shinshu University not far away
from the
hotel. It is a national university derived from an old 9th
Kodougako, 9th
senior
school after middle school before the War. I visited the 4th at
Kanazawa in
2016 and was
graduated from Taiwan Normal which was derived from Taihoku
Kodogako
before 1945. I’ll explain it when I write about the Castle and the city.
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