Hayakawa-cho, Yamanashi-ken

Hayakawa is more beautiful than Williamstown in the Fall. Williamstown is located in a very pretty valley, but the mountains just aren't quite the same. They're not so close as the mountains are here. I mean, 10 feet from my door the mountains go almost straight up.

Fall here comes in a rather strange sequence. In Japan, there are two rainy seasons. The main one is in between Spring and Summer. The other is in between Summer and Fall. So for a while there it was rain and rain and rain and rain and rain... Once that stopped, though, the leaves started changing in a very un-uniform way. The further into the mountains you went the faster they changed, but neighboring mountains could be at fairly different stages. Down by the Fujikawa river (the Hayakawa river feeds into the Fujikawa at its end where the mountains sort of stop) the leaves change very slowly and steadily.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures. Narada is located North of my house, 10 minutes past Kita Sho (North Elementary School... i'm going to stop putting the English for this now). The Fujikawa river, again, is located east of Hayakawa, but it runs North South like the Hayakawa does most of the time. I'm not making separate sections for Fall like I did for Summer.