Kamisuwa Trip on 21 Oct. 2012（上諏訪の旅）

1st Sunday in Japan, my manager bring us to sightseeing in Suwa Lake (諏訪湖) area and which is the city of my Company HQ is.

Finally I here, come to my company's HQ

But some members want to go others activity, so only 4 person go Suwa Lake...... and this is the 1st time I take train myself......luckily my I know some Kanji and understand some Japanese words, although again we miss the train and wait for another 15mins, but we all arrived Kami Suwa Station safely and meet my manager there.

Train Schedule form Midoriko towards Kamisuwa 

The 1st place we go is the Suwa Lake, one of the famous lake in Japan, the lake is very beautiful. and lot of people joking around the lake.

In Japan, even is 12noon, we still don't feel hot, so we can see people picnic even sleep at the lake side.

We wanted to try the swan boat, but the timing is not preferable, so we plan to come next time.

As the time we come is autumn time, so we can see the leafs start change colour, this is first time to experience season change in life, feels so amazing, my manager say if we come another 2 weeks time, the leafs will all change to red/ orange color.

After walked around the lakes, we go to the nearest shopping center for lunch.

Initially wanted to lunch at a small restaurant next to the station, but the restaurant is packed of customer, so I think this restaurant maybe a famous restaurant as there are so few people on the street and there is not only one restaurant, but it is full at lunch time, so we just went shopping first.

This shopping is the only shopping center near to the around the Kami Suwa Station(上諏訪駅), but the main supermarket has been closed down, so we though there shall not have anything can shop, but surprisingly, there still have few restaurants, second hand shop which you can find anything you want in your life include motherboard and graphics card, 100 yen shop and some local product shop. At the top floor, we can saw there are a few tea house, art center and antiques shop, there are some local artist promote their art piece at this floor.

After shop a while, we go to the restaurant again, but the shop is stop serving as their stock was sold out, I could only say WOW, so fast, just about 1 ~ 2 hours, all sold out, so bring a disappointed mood, we go back the shopping center restaurant for lunch, initially though that this shop foods may just normal as only 2 customer inside, but surprisingly, their tendo is serve in such large size and is very delicious, but I just remember to eat, never check the shop name, but in future, if going to this shopping, you can go the 1st floor and this shop is at corner lot next to a wet market.

After the lunch, we take train go back to our hostel at shiojiri, as the time still early, so we choose to drop at Midoriko Station, a village station that near our hostel. But when we on the way back, suddenly 2 young girls come to us and ask us direction as they drop at wrong station, but our Japanese Language is so limited and they mistaken that I' m a local people since nobody will though foreigner will come to such rural area, so after trying explain to them the correct direction with my broken Japanese Language, I think they still cant get what I means, but they are politely thanks me and say they understood, so we just go back and left them at the station, so when on the way back, we look back and found they still asking people the direction, what I can do is pray that they can reach their destination safely.