Japanese Alps

Sven's last weekend in Japan :'( and we'd planned to go away somewhere but had no idea where. Between us, we've been to a lot of the good places around Nagoya, and so we had to look a little further-a-field. In the end, we settled on Matsumoto, which lies 2-hours north-east of Nagoya and sits at the foot of the Japanese Alps and promised to be a pleasant city with a fusion of old and new Japan. We got there pretty late because we'd been out to the pub and karaoke til 4am the night before so we were pretty tired the following day. Just enough time to have a wander, find a place to stay, get some dinner, and get some rest for the day after but Matsumoto had made a very good first impression. This view of the surrounding snow-peaked mountains is taken from the top of Matsumoto castle.