This is my 5th visit to Japan. It is also one that I had the most number of days there; and making the most number of moves around the country on its public transport. Appreciate Chai Noi for initiating the trip and making the transport arrangements such as the Flight and JR Ticket, and being the accommodating room mate. Thanks to Teck Siew for her thoughtful and thorough planning and travelling tips that allowed me to venture into new places without the need to do much pre-trip planning. Grateful to Juejing, for his patience and for being a very reliable human GPS (at times, even better than GoogleMap)! Of course, a big thank you to the great company of the Wong and Koh families, too :)

(D10) Nagano 长野

Day 10: 12 December 2016

In search of the onsen monkeys... at the Jigokudani Monkey Park

(Source: http://en.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp/)



It's the beginning of the 1.5 km walk towards the park - on the snowy and slippery ground.




Near to the park is where the stream where the hot spring is nearby.

Notice the snow monkeys lined up neatly to cross the stream?



One that is enjoying his hot bath.


Look carefully! Can you differentiate the monkeys from the rocks?
The monkey community here is huge! This reminds me of the Monkey God!
Probably we can find the 水帘洞 somewhere in this 花果山-equivalent mountain during spring/ summer time.




Snow monkey eating snow. Hm... not banana?

At a local train station

It is pretty interesting to find provision store inside the train station. 
Something that's uniquely Nagano, I guess.






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