Day 11: Aizuwakamatsu to Tsuruoka 247km 7.5 hours. 20degC - 26degC fine
A green day through the forested mountains
Horticultural plains, garden centres
Small towns where home gardeners have been busy.
The green flush of fresh growth
Signalling summer
Farewelling the winter snows
Refreshing green
Scenery
And on our plates
Mountain greens sansai, endamame beans,
asparagus, bamboo shoots
Lettuce and spinach, fern fronds.
Trays of green rice seedlings being planted
Mostly mechanically
Sometimes by hand
Green buds on the grape vines
And apple trees
In this fertile Yamagata region.
And a green hotel for the night.
We rode this distance in 7.5 hours.
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