Early spring in Japan: in the mountains of snow storage history.

Travel is from Tokyo, a road in Roppongi Hills, Ginza, Akiba Hara, these places do not have to say is the paradise of brand-name consumerism, a superb collection of beautiful things. But I'm not a Shopaholic, really let me "love" is the second station -- Tokyo northwest Nagano, the mountain, the snow, the "soup", the monkey......

Nagano

These names, reminiscent of the film in the period of Warring States

In Tokyo by Shinkansen, more than two hours to a world of ice and snow of nagano. Here is a plateau, known as "the roof with Tokyo, Japan" is a completely different world.

Shiga mountain

The wizard angle Mr. Zhang drove a car to pick us up the mountain, the hotel Yamanouchi acerbity hot springs pull. Along the way, this looked simple people off the reel to introduce us the geography and local customs and practices.

Pass by a river when he said: "the river called the river of one thousand of sichuan."

"One thousand of Sichuan?" These three words say, it broke my memory, the name sounds so familiar? Seem to have seen, but the moment he could not think.

Jiao Zhang added: "one thousand of Sichuan, in Nagano Prefecture is so called, but in the north of the Niigata Prefecture is called the Shinano River."

Shinano? Well, this isn't about Japan's Warring States period (1467 -1615 years) often appear in the movie? Kurosawa's "Shadow Warrior", "chaos", Kadokawa Haruki's "heaven and earth" is involved in Shinano, this is a Japanese film classic.

Shinano province is now the Nagano, the force was not strong, be surrounding the famous after the country, Kai's bullying, more after the name (Lord) Uesugi Nobu, Kai, Takeda Xixuan is having a great reputation in the war. Dinner with Japanese chatted this topic, they said one thousand of Sichuan there do have an ancient battlefield, but our trip without the spots.

All the way to see the signs on the Xinzhou, Shin-Etsu such names, are handed down from ancient times.

As a fan of Kurosawa and the Japanese movie, don't expect however here came the familiar scene, could not help but have a little "chicken frozen". I vaguely remember the picture in the brain: Plateau castle, a snowstorm is raging. Night, charge into the enemy ranks, commanding general of the army. Takeda Xixuan put the art of war, "the wind, Xu Rulin, in the fire, do not move mountains" and development to the extreme. Chinese don't care how old ancestors things spread to Japan, be they carry forward, this is no longer just a tactics, but already melt into the Japanese national character and philosophy of life, alas!

The "soup" with history.

That night we stayed in the hot spring hotel is "old house", did not think of here again "hit" on the history. Zuo Wei door shopkeeper little Ze said, this house for 400 years, he has been to the sixteenth generation, so that probably in the Warring States period, the hot spring hotel will open up. It is the main wooden structure, built in the spring on the mountain, "here is the one and only many hotels", said the shopkeeper.

As it happened, I live in the room called "Shinano road", the traditional Japanese tatami, clean, neat, I love. The back of the room small yard dug a "bubble soup", small, three or four square meters, without modification, the old park very. Help me with my luggage. By the way to my room and beckoned me how to wash out, he pointed to the stuff in the closet, and I do not understand Japanese, even by a nod. I thought: "eldest brother, advanced bathroom with hot water shower clean, put on a bathrobe, off again bubble, right, I understand this program. I don't understand is, outside the biting wind my elderly vulnerable."

However, I soon found myself overthinking, when I opened the door, Yu Wen force with hot bath resistance to wind and snow, two seconds, one red slip jumped to the hot springs. As the hardcore of the industry, this is the rainbow night.: the body is hot, face was snow and cold air touching. Said touch, not the lyric is a fact. Because of rising in the air on the face and the cold air interlacing, is very gentle. From time to time, floating down a few small snowflakes teasing you, this feeling, with an ad saying is "I enjoy".