Karuizawa!

Wednesday we left for our two-day, one-night stay in Karuizawa, a vacation spot like 2 hours outside of Tokyo. The company Akihiko-san and his wife used to work for has a place that current and former employees can stay at when they want to visit Karuizawa, so we got to stay there for pretty cheap. The town is BEAUTIFUL, surrounded by mountains and so much green! It was a refreshing break from concrete city Tokyo. We got there in the afternoon, had lunch, then headed towards the Shiraita Waterfall. The waterfall was gorgeous and because summer break hasn't started yet for Japanese students, the place was surprisingly empty.

A pic of some mountains on our drive into Karuizawa.

Ethan pretending to be old.

Where we stayed.

free rental bikes!

mmm... delicious soft serve.