A Certain Mountain
(Early 2010s)
The mountain can be seen from the window of the Shinkansen heading west from Nagoya. It's just an ordinary mountain. It is located just before Kyoto Station and can only be seen from the left side of the train. It's a low and unassuming mountain, so if I don't look out the window carefully, I'll miss it.
I don't even know why I'm fascinated by that mountain. But when I take the Shinkansen to Osaka or Kyoto, I can't help but take pictures of it.
I took these photos about 10 years ago. For about 10 years, I have been wanting to know the name of that mountain. And recently, I finally learned that it is Mt. Mikami (Wikipedia).
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Travel by train is so wonderful. Who has time to do anything but look out the window? There is so much beautiful scenery.
Strangely I remember being fascinated by Mikami-san on my first trip to Japan also, interesting how both our minds and eyes fixated upon it.