It is going to be the first trekking in two weeks. I woke up at 5:30 at my home in Fukuoka, took a shower and checked my baggage. After some months of trekking, base baggage weight except food and water has been reduced from 15 kg to 10 kg…

I woke up at 4:00 in the tent set up at Kurokami-yama Ikoinomori Campground, because I heard the sound of heavy rain. Fortunately, the campsite site was covered with Sunoko, so I had no need to worry about submerging my tent. But, anyway, …

I woke up at 5:30 before the alarm rang. Took a quick shower and checked the packing contents. The backpack weighed 14.0kg. This was a weight that included 2.8 kg of food and 1.0 liter of water, so it would be 10.2 kg only for the equipmen…

Last night, after having a dinner in a restaurant attached to a hot spring located in the center of Kyuragi town, I went back to the outskirt of the town in a heavy rain. Walked a while, and finally I found a place where rain did not hit d…

I stayed in Furuyu Onsen last night, because I found a very reasonable Hotel, Eiryu Onsen, 5800 yen for one night cheap with 2 meals. Woke up at 6:00 in the morning and took a hot spring with no one was in. This was really good. After enjo…

I stayed at the Hokuzan campsite on the Kyushu Nature Trail yesterday. It was free. The camp site was well maintained and there was a water supply and a restroom. The surrounding scenery was also good. I could recommend this campsite for a…

To restart trekking from the previous stop point of Shiiba, I took Nishitetsu bus at 6:52 from Nishijin and arrived at the Shiiba village at 8:03. After transfer to the local bus, I was the only passenger to Shiiba village. At 8:07, I left…

I woke up at 6:00. To tell the truth, I woke up many times in the middle of the night. Because it was too cold to sleep. When I got out of the tent, there was ice in the pool in the gutter. I tried to look at the temperature, but the radi…

When I got out of the tent in the morning, the lake was spreading in front of me. A good start except for a slight rain last night. I finished my morning routine and started to move at 7:30. Walked along the shore of Lake Tenpai, passed th…

Today is Saturday. Monday is a holiday on Adults' Day. I can get three consecutive holidays, for the first time in two months. I finished my job exactly at 12:03 and went home in a hurry. I changed my clothes for trekking and left home at …

Last night, I fell asleep at 20:00, with hearing the boars’ footsteps. I was able to sleep well until 6 in this morning. I slept well. In past camps, I could not sleep well due to various problems, such as back pain, cold, straddling on sl…

Soon after I finished my work on Saturday, I rushed to Akizuki via Nishitetsu and Amagi railway. After I arrived at Amagi Station, transferred to the bus heading to Akizuki. I should pay 390 yen for the fare. but I had only 180 yen of smal…

I woke up in the middle of the night with hearing the cry of a deer. It's still 1:30. Another cry near the tent. As I turned on the flashlight, the deer's cry finally stopped. The temperature was 12 Celsius. I felt my feet was cold despite…

Got up at 4:20 in the morning, took a shower, checked the equipment, then left home. Even I worked until 11 PM on Friday night, I could get up earlyon Saturday morning, if I could go to the mountain. I took the first subway at 5:36 and tra…

At 5:30 very early morning, I woke up in my tent set up in front of an abandoned house in Tashiro village. I heard deer cries all night last night. Rain was falling very hard. Wind was not blowing so much, probably because I was in the bot…

September 21st, 2019, the weather forecast was saying that the Typhoon No. 17 had been approaching. In Miyazaki prefecture, a 120-mm heavy rain falls per hour was recorded, but here in Fukuoka it has not rained yet. This weekend was a big …

On September 16th, 2019, I woke up in my tent set at Michino-eki Kawara at 5:30. I could not sleep well last night because of the noise of the motor cycle gang. I brush my teeth in the restroom of Michinoeki and started to walk at 7:10. On…

On September 15th early morning, I took the first subway on 5:36 from Nishijin station in Fukuoka to Nakasu-kawabata station, to transfer to the Express bus to Kitakyushu city. The express bus arrived Tokuriki-arashiyamaguchi monorail stat…

Yahata station is the nearest station to Sarakura-yama Mountain, the north end of the trail head of Kyushu Nature Trail. Japan Rail Yahata Station, Kitakyushu City Sarakura-yama mountain I started by myself from Yahata station at 8:17 AM. …