Ogawahara
This was the day we had the most trouble navigating. We were
off the beaten path, and no signs were in English. We had gone over the
map with Kazuko and decided on a 50-mile loop,and she told us the name
of the farthest town on the route -- Ogawahara or Ogawabara (she wasn't
sure of the pronunciation). We circled it on our map and wrote it in English.
Early on, we had trouble matching the roads we were on to the
maps, so we decided to abandon the loop idea and just meander. We followed
a sign that pictured a waterfall and walked down several flights of metal
steps to the riverbank, where it was shady and cool.
We bought food in a town on Route 212 (or was it Route 40?) and the young grocery clerk tried to direct us to Ogawahara, but we weren't sure we understood him. Then the man at the gas station next door drew us a little map and we got on the right road. We were really in the middle of nowhere.
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