Our friend and commentator Jong-nam Itami recently sent us these beautiful pictures and comments during his Golden week.

“I was in the Okhotsk Sea region of Hokkaido during Golden week. The first half was piled with snow, but the last I got to see Cherry blossoms (Kamitokoro Konpira Mountain), Azaleas (Onneyu Hotsprings) & Ice cream (Rubenshibe’s KITANO SHIROI FUSEN, ice cream shop) I had the combination ice cream & 2 kinds of gelato for ¥450. By the way trees were in full bloom”.