It's the last leg from my Yuru Camp season 3 travels last year! First I'll be heading to the river campsite (Black Smith Outdoorfield Sanogawa Base) and Sanogawa onsen just up the road (1) then to a spot by the river that the girls also visit by Kai-Oshima station (2). I set off from Shimada... Continue Reading →
Suspension Bridges and Mountain Trains! (Part 2) – Yuru Camp Backpacking Season 3
Go and read part one if you haven't already!! ABT-Ichishiro Station Back at the bottom of the steep section of track where the larger locomotive coupled with the small train, this was the nearest stop to the campsite - illustrated by this handy map from the anime. The train shortly left and I snapped this... Continue Reading →
Suspension Bridges and Mountain Trains! (Part 1) – Yuru Camp Backpacking Season 3
This leg of my trip covers all the spots reachable on foot from episodes 3 to 6, where Rin and Ayano go biking around all the bridges, while Nadeshiko takes the train up to the campsite by the dam. Obviously I was on foot, so I followed in Nadeshiko's footsteps here. I stayed the night... Continue Reading →
Revisiting Some Season One Yuru Camping Spots – Kofu, Motosuko and Hamamatsu!
So it's been a week. Since my last post, I visited a bunch of yuru camp season one locations with a friend, and went to a techno festival in the middle of the foresty mountains in Nara. For the yuru camping part, some of the locations I've previously visited on a past trip are now... Continue Reading →
Yuru Camp backpacking: The highlands and the doggy shrine
I mentioned at the end of the last post that I would be hiking up to the Takabocchi highlands, where there is a campsite Rin stays at in the first season in episode 5. We would camp up there too, then rest a day. The plan after that was to hike up to Jinbatagayama, a... Continue Reading →
Yuru Camp Backpacking (Part 2)
So now for the second leg. These are the areas around Kofu, north of Minobu. Use the contents to skip to where you want, or read it in chronological order by heading to the next page. Part 1 will be linked below too. Selva/Liquor StoreLake ShibireWild CampingYamanashi StationFuefukigawa Fruit ParkHottarakashi OnsenEastwood Camping Grounds Link to... Continue Reading →
Yuru Camp Backpacking (Part 1)
I'm writing this introduction after the Lake Motosu/Shizuoka leg. Since these trips are probably going to span across a couple weeks, I'm going to write this as I go along. Most people that I've read on the internet have done their Yuru Camp pilgrimages with a car, which is definitively the most efficient way of... Continue Reading →
Covid-19 Taking it’s Toll
No Guests So for the lasts few days there were no guests at all. None for lunch, and none sleeping. Very unusual for the middle of sakura season. I guess the soft lock in Tokyo is having it's effect. Not much has happened, apart from a few things. One day for dinner someone brought in... Continue Reading →
