Hippy Karuizawa

Nobody would stop to let get a good picture of the first big Volcano we've see here. 

This is an old wooden Catholic church in Karuizawa downtown.

Great Hippy clothes I'lll get for the summer.

Like everywhere Camo stuff even if you're not a hunter.

New mall with an old water wheel incorporated.

Dan and Komoko checking out food options.

Cozy streets to shop with few cars, though we were told our 20 minute drive would take 3 hours in the summer. I guess we'll continue to do our off season travelling as much as possible.

Lots of fun stuff and signs that indicate some fun with foreign presence.

St. Francis's appreciation of animals and nature would have been appreciated.

Christian camp probably relating back to missionaries in the late 1800's. Japanese Christian cells here carried on.

At one time, perhaps in the 70's a faux French tourist shopping area.

A place for Mary and Gerald to feel at g

home in. I haven't seen horses though.

  From one modern home Dan looks up at one of many abandoned Villas.

In between the big homes was this well kept mini cottage. Great fun.

 Notice the stilts the back home is propped on in the front, earthquake protection?

And a small town Ontario cottage look.

We thought this volcano was a ski hill but the ski hill is across the way.

There is good signage, just not so helpful to illiterates like us.

Dan always wanted a turret, I think even this slightly weathered hostel might be more than we could buy, given the new earthquake requirements.

Hippy cottage area near the schools retreat centre.

 A Dome, like Liz's in Kaslo.

The curse of 60's A-frames invaded everywhere.

Can you tell why BC foreigners felt at home in the woods here?

A little bit of a Muskoka, Ontario feel too.

We loved hiking around the hills here, in hippy Karuizawa.