This is an 8000 year old beech forest. Beech trees grow very slowly. One of the trees there is 400 years old.
Unfortunately where the bridges over a river, that comes down over three waterfalls, swept away probably by the Taifun, that was comming through. The park rangers where showing impressive pictures of the rest of the bridges. In the area, that is accessible, I took a picture of a very small 'bridge', that is tied wit a rope to a nearby tree, so that it is not going too far in the next rain.
Some smaller waterfalls comming down from the side gave a nice refreshing impression
Some part of the road here is a dirt road. I thought about taking it to the other side of the park, down to the coast, if time would have allowed but decision was made by park authorities:
In the middle of the dirt road where some curves done as a tar road. One of the best stretches started in the middle of nowhere and ended around the next corner as dirt road again
Today it was raining from the morning, so we first decided to go to an onsen. I still can smell a bit of the sulfur. Afterwards on the way to Aomori it stopped raining, so we had the chance to visit an excavation site of the early and middle Jomon period, which was between 5500 and 4000 years ago. The site, together with other sites in Hokkaido and Northern Tohoku, applied as worl heritage site. They rebuilt some houses according to the findings
Some buildings were quite huge.
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