Our days in Japan
With a three day weekend fast approaching, we were interested in doing some camping. We were looking to stay local, so our goal was to find a campground that wasn’t too far from our home in Mito. The Hitachiomiya area along the Naka River has a good number of campgrounds. We looked through the list […]
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We wanted to do some camping before it got too cold out. We coordinated with some friends and decided on the Fuji five lakes area. After doing a bit of research we learned that this area and Lake Motosu in particular had been immortalized on the back of the ¥1000 note. We knew that this […]
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On our recent overnight camping trip we stayed at Ryujin Furusato Village in Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture. The campground was a short 15 minute drive from the Ryujin Suspension Bridge. We took a small alley like road off of Road 33 to access the campground. The road was so narrow and obscure that we missed it […]
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