Autumn Color Reports 2019

Japan’s autumn color season is finally finishing up for the year as winter snows are beginning to fall on the country’s tall mountain peaks.For those hoping to catch the last of the autumn colors this year, hope...

With December finally here, the autumn color season is now in its very final stages across the country. At this point in the season, the best places to catch some colorful leaves at their peak are now very southern...

The autumn color season is in its home stretch this week as northern Japan settles into winter and southern Japan is enjoying its last few days of autumn.Continuing our coverage of the season across the country, I...

As this year’s autumn color season slows to its conclusion, Japan’s late-changing cities are finally reaching their peak season color. After finding Tokyo at peak color yesterday, I headed south today to Japan’s other...

Today I bring to you for the first time ever an autumn color report from the city of Fukuoka. I visited one shrine, one park and two traditional gardens and encountered peak colors in all four spots.The season is...

As this year’s nationwide autumn color season is finally coming to an end, late-changing cities like Tokyo and Kyoto are just now reaching the height of their own seasonal colors.Following Schauwecker’s reporting...

Kyoto entered the best viewing period for autumn colors last week, and the city can be expected to remain at the peak of its seasonal beauty through the rest of this week. In some spots, the colors should remain nice...

Two days after my previous report from Kyoto, I checked out some more of the city’s autumn color spots. Sunny weather and large temperature differences between day and night have been providing ideal conditions for...

Today I paid a visit to the sacred island of Miyajima near Hiroshima to check on the state of the local autumn colors. The season seems to have been proceeding at a relatively average pace this year, and I found the...

Two weeks after our first autumn color report from Kyoto, I revisited the city today to find that the peak of the autumn color season there is just about to start.Overall the trees were still improving their...

Last week, Schauwecker reported from some of the main autumn color spots in Tokyo that the colors were only just beginning to change in some of the city’s most popular spots. Today I headed to some areas on the outskirts...

On October 12, 2019, typhoon #19 brought record-breaking amounts of rain to Hakone. Within one day, the area received roughly three times the rain that it usually gets during the entire month of October. The enormous...

Today I went on an early first autumn color report to Tokyo. This year’s colors have been several days behind their average pace, so it was no surprise that the city’s koyo spots were still at an early stage...

Autumn colors across the country are continuing to develop as November marches on, with spots in the higher elevations such as Naruko hitting peak, while other areas such as Kyoto are just starting to change. I...

This week has seen a considerable drop in temperatures across the country, paving the way for the autumn colors to descend into the lower elevations of eastern and western Japan. For the next couple of weeks, however,...

Warmer temperatures were recorded over the last few months across Japan, and that contributed to the slow start and slight delay to the autumn color season, while the typhoon and heavy rains in the last month caused...

Continuing this year’s autumn color reports from around Japan, today I visited the upmarket resort of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture to check on the many popular autumn color spots located there. Karuizawa is an easy...

The autumn color season along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route is particularly long because of the wide range of elevation covered by the route. At the route’s highest point around Murodo, the colors are usually best...

Today I visited the Kurobe Gorge in Toyama Prefecture by taking the unique Kurobe Gorge Railway from Unazuki Onsen to its terminal station, Keyakidaira. In the average year, the autumn colors in the gorge are best...

It’s been another two weeks since Charles’ report on the progress of the fall colors of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture, and I’m back at some of the popular spots to see how the colors have developed since he last...

Due to above-average temperatures over the past few months, the autumn colors have developed at a very slow pace on Japan’s main island Honshu this year so far. In the usual year, the trees around Lake Towada and...

As we head into November, autumn colors are looking particularly breathtaking in northern Japan around Hachimantai and Hakkoda, and are slowly approaching peak in the higher elevations of the Kanto region as I saw in...

After inspecting the autumn colors around Mount Hakkoda yesterday, I continued reporting 80 kilometers further south in the the Hachimantai region today. Like Mount Hakkoda, the region also belongs to...

Exactly one month after our first autumn color report of the season, I made my way to northern Japan once more to check on the state of the season. Today, I visited Mount Hakkoda in Aomori Prefecture. In the average...

Two weeks after Joe reported in the higher elevations of Nikko in Tochigi Prefecture, I decided to head to some of the area’s popular autumn spots to see how the autumn colors were progressing.Due to a very strong...

Slowly but surely, the autumn color season is descending from mountain tops to the highlands. It seems that the warmer than average temperatures over the last couple of months have slightly delayed the changing colors...

Our autumn color season reporting continues, as the fall colors started appearing on higher elevations in the island of Honshu. Today I headed to Tochigi Prefecture in the Kanto Region to check out the state of the...

As we roll into October today, we continue our coverage of this year’s autumn color season by reporting from Japan’s best spots to view the colors. While the highest elevations on Japan’s northernmost island of...

Today, I went for a drive on a section of the National Route 292, starting in Nagano, not far from the hot spring town of Yudanaka Onsen, to Kusatsu Onsen, one of the best onsen towns in Japan. My drive started at...

Today, I visited the popular Alpine Route to check out the autumn colours (koyo) from 1400-2450 meters above sea level. I started at Murodo, at 2450 meters, and found that the colours there were approaching peak. The...

Known as the playgrounds of the gods and the roof of Hokkaido, Daisetsuzan National Park covers more mountainous wilderness...