a refreshing pattern of a forest

This is a green of midsummer in a forest of Japanese beech.
This forest is loved by people who take a stroll there for forest bathing.

The place where all women look beautiful

It is the place called Bijin-Bayashi (美人林) where is located in the Tohka-machi city in Niigata Prefecture.
It is said that all women look beautiful in the grove by the soft sunlight which comes through green leaves of Japanese beech.
That's why the place named Bijin-Bayashi literally means the grove of beauties.

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