RESORTS, Where the mountain ranges of the axis of Japan meet the volcano-marked upfold of the great transverse fold, that la to aay, in the district between the Kola plateau and the penin-aula of Note on the Western Sea—t i popularly associated with the Japanese Inndecape in left behind, No term connoting diminntivences can tly be applied to " region whose mountains:
tain a height of ten thousand fect, with other nataral features on s pro-Few foreiga visitors, have penetrated to this comparatively wild and remote region, presumably because there are no well-appointed foreiga hotels to be found from one end of it to the other. However, those who desire to see the real pan and the best of Japan, must: be prepared to leave the well-appointed foreiga hotel behind them for season—nor can it be supposed that, having seen, they will in the and reg their brief disseverance from the flesh-pote of modern civilization.
The Kofu railway, with its threescore tenne's, affords the avenue of approach to that highland region which foreign traveller—one might almost say explorer®—has christened the Japanese Albe." The journey may conveniently be broken at Lake Sawa (ten to twelve hours from Yokohama), whence issues the " thundering spay " of Japan, Tearyngaws, and where, at Shima Rey. Walter Weston, r.n.0.8,
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