Visiting Onuma Quasi-National Park/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Onuma Quasi-National Park/Carlos Pueblo

We copied a visit on the prior day of two retired Taiwanese ladies to the Onuma

Lake, the Onuma Quasi-National Park just to express train stops out of Hakodate.

Hokkaido in Japan is equivalent to the America West in the United States, abundant

and beautiful. It is well equipped with the modern facilities on the park in combining

with the natural terrain, shops and visitors facilities of all kinds such as hotels, golf

courses, ski resorts, hiking tracts both hiking and biking around the 14 Km lake even

to a nearby mountains peak, farms of highland, etc. The city and park are ready for

all 4 seasons. We only saw a very small portion of the lake.

Quasi Park means not quite a genuine yet, a prepared one. There are several genuine

National Parks well as Hokkaido Do Parks, like State Parks, in the beautiful Island. We

walked into an almost huge empty parking lot with only two buses carried tourists from

Taiwan, obviously the Lake was out of peak season and the weather was miserable,

raining occasionally with accumulated snow piled up on side. It have been established

as a park in memory of Emperor Taisho’s visit when he was a crown prince more than

a century ago. A very standard installation of planning cherry trees for the spring

blooming as well as maple trees for the foliage. I saw the pagoda symbolized him larger

than the one under his reigning at Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.

I read almost every epitaph on the monuments and both sides of the arc bridges and

very busy taking pictures. There were three seniors fishing on both side of a bridge and

I stopped to watch what they were doing. The fishing equipment, pool, stand, catch tank,

and bait, etc. were very organized and simple. I like fishing and I take a note of the special

bait, a moist vanilla biscuit ball which would generate fragrant to attract fresh water fish.

My dad used exactly the same kinds of bait when I accompanied him to fish when I was

just a kid. For some reasons, they released the catch back to the lake and prepared another

bait. I thought that the bass was too small.

We saw that two young ladies of the bus group riding bicycles around the lake under the

threat of rain. They even had had time to have an ice cream cone after returning the bikes

and got back to bus. I felt very happy to visit this lake after so many lake visits during my

life around the world. The lady staff at the station advised us to wait inside the heater

warmed station for the coming train and I chatted with two girls from Chiba Prefecture

about the religious sect which I visited at Hakodate; however, they had had no idea at all.