{"id":95,"date":"2003-09-23T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2003-09-23T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T08:42:00","slug":"hiking-mt-rokko-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Mt. Rokko (I Think)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a holiday for me – the Autumnal Equinox. I got a phone call this morning from Sara, and we got a chance to catch up and see how everything was going. It was good to talk to her, but I admit I was still a little groggy – she caught me sleeping in.<\/p>\n

After getting up I cooked a big breakfast of hash browns and eggs, and then got my hiking gear together and hit the trail. I had heard from Mr. Hayashi about hiking Mt. Rokko, which is one of the large mountains above Kobe. The weather was cool, but it wasn’t raining – perfect weather for hiking. <\/p>\n

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I had some trouble finding the trailhead, and although I could have asked someone, I wouldn’t have been able to understand the response. After some exploring, I found it, and started climbing up the mountain. There were lots of people coming down, but nobody (but me) going up. I think I was at the right mountain, but who knows? It was about a 45 minute hike to the top, and it was fairly steep climb. It felt great to work my legs hard again.<\/p>\n

At the top, I ran into a giant wasp, and I tried to take a movie of it, with marginal success. Check out the movie here (2.5 MB)<\/a>, and you can see what I mean. <\/p>\n

Afterwards, I was climbing along the ridge of the mountain away from Kobe, and stumbled upon an old amusement park, and explored that area for a while. All of the equipment was showing it’s age, and wasn’t really protected from the elements. <\/p>\n

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I’m not sure when it was popular, but it had this sad, nostalgic feeling combined with a weird creepiness. When I first got there it was empty, but people started showing up while I was taking pictures, and that made it seem a little less spooky.<\/p>\n

It turns out that there was a more direct way to get to the amusement park from Kobe, so I followed that way back towards the train station. I was able to stop at a small restaurant and have lunch on top of one of the hills, near an observation building. They also had a coffee shop up there, and plenty of beer. This makes two out of three mountains that I’ve climbed in Japan that have had beer at the top. That’s a very pleasant trend, I think. <\/p>\n

Stinky, sweaty, and exhausted I jumped back on the train and headed back home. The hike turned out great, and I’m hoping to do it again on a nicer day. Tomorrow it’s back to work for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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