Start of the second day hike

Up at 7 for traditional Japanese breakfast. Hot pan fried salmon, pickles, poached egg in soy sauce, miso soup, sticky rice with melted sesame miso, green veg, yoghurt, apple slices and coffee. Ate the lot which pretty much set us up for the day.

Set off from the lodgings soon after 8 and were waved off by the mother and daughter who run it and continued along the trail bound for Nojiri.

View is looking back to the village as we started to climb.