Ride ride ride your bike, gently up the stream...

On a beautiful summer day earlier this month I decided to go exploring by following the river upstream. One of the first things I came across was this national highway project that has run out of money. It seems like the bamboo is already growing up around it... I think the people living directly underneath it must be relieved that the project has been halted indefinitely.

All the way upriver two things were constant - fishermen, and powerlines.

As I got further up-river there wasn't much flat land around. Houses in Japan never seem to be built on slopes, I guess because of earthquakes, but there were a few farms perched on the mountainsides.