a jetty of Senjyu-ga-hama

The place, where called Senjyu-ga-hama, is located in the western end of the Lake Chuzenji that is at an altitude of 1,265 meters. A mountain covered with clouds to be seen in the front is Mt. Nantai(2486m).　Hikers are waiting a returning ship after enjoying of their hiking and flower viewing.
As for flower viewing, there is the place where a Japanese primrose grows in colonies near here as shown in below.

Icicles on the lakeside

Icicles on the lakeside, originally uploaded by photoholic image.

This is a scene of Lake Chyuzenji in winter.
The lake Chyuzenji spreads out at southern foot of Mount_Nantai (8,156 feet) which can be seen in the photo above.
This place is also one of the tourist spots in Nikko.
At the beginning of the Meiji period, summer villas were set up by Embassy of foreign countries like the UK, France, Italy and the US in this lakeside. Many foreign diplomats visited here to spend summer holiday on the lakeside. They introduced the trout fishing, yachting and boat racing to this place as same as they did in their home country.
It is said that they supervised the stocking of the lake with trout for their good catch of trout fishing, and they established first yacht club in Japan.