DAY FIVE: * heavy fog: visibility max. 40m, surreal feeling crossing bridge over Daiya-gawa river with no end of the bridge in sight * missing the 06:17 bus * No. 1 Irohazaka slope up to Chuzenji Onsen * first sakura seen in my life: shores of Lake Chuzenji-ko * Yumoto Onsen * Lake Yunoko * hike #2: Yumoto Onsen-Yudaki falls-Senjogahara marsh-Ryuzunotaki falls * newly-hatched tadpoles from this spring swimming among fallen leaves from last autumn in Senjogahara marsh * lunch in the sun sitting on the empty Shobugahama wooden jetty over Lake Chuzenji-ko * Kegon-no-taki falls: heard but not seen due to fog, visibility down to max. 15m * No. 2 Irohazaka slope down to Nikko * yaki-udon at Hippari Dako * frantic manager hammering my door: urgent fax from Singapore regarding my honours viva (classmates should know WHY) *

	Yumoto Onsen, start of the Lake Yunoko-Senjogahara-Ryuzu-no-taki hike, Nikko National Park, Tochigi Prefecture		school outing, base of Yudaki falls, Nikko National Park
	trail marker, Senjogahara hike, Nikko National Park		tree, Senjogahara marsh
	butt of fallen tree, nearing Akanuma junction, Senjogahara hike		unnamed falls downstream of Shakunage bridge, Yu-gawa river between Senjogahara trailhead & Taki-ue, Nikko National Park
	clouds, sky & trees in a pool by the unnamed falls: a take on M.C. Escher's "Three Worlds"		Ryuzu-no-taki falls, Nikko National Park
	Hippari Dako & the giant Japanese kite above the entrance: a yakitori & noodle restaurant run by a wonderful old lady who gave me two koi nobori as a gift, Nikko

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