Those viral "wildfire" videos from Japan's mountains? Not smoke — pollen, tied to decades of forest policy that's proving hard to reverse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/03/23/earth-science/hay-fever-tokyo-pollen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #earthscience #pollen #hayfever #health #allergy #tokyo #chichibu #okutama
The human-made roots of Japan's hay fever crisis

Efforts to thin forests and breed low-pollen cedar advance, even as labor gaps and neglected land complicate the work.

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Found a collapsed #shrine near the top of a mountain in #Chichibu today - 2020-09-19 Shaka, When The Walls Fell

http://cityhillsandsea.com/2020/09/19/2020-09-19-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/

2020-09-19 Shaka, When The Walls Fell

The pandemic stay at home period was the big reason I haven’t hit the trails in forever. Today, nearly at the top of a mountain looking for a trail that never appeared, I stumbled across this poor …

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Time for no.2 of my #Musashi station visitin' project, Railways of the Warrior. This time, off to #Chichibu to visit Bushu-Hino.

http://cityhillsandsea.com/2021/01/15/bushu-hino-rotw/

Bushu-Hino (RotW)

Our second entry in the Railways of the Warrior project, and the first of several in Chichibu.

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Railways of the Warrior #3 - in which I set out to visit all the Musashi named stations in Japan - this time, #BushuNakagawa in #Chichibu, with monkeys, sumo & a mountain trail that wasn't there... #japan #武州中川 #秩父

http://cityhillsandsea.com/2021/01/22/bushu-nakagawa-rotw/

Bushu-Nakagawa (RotW)

The one in which I almost get stuck on a mountain.

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Went for a short camping trip at Riverside Camp Field Chichibu.

It was grey and drizzling yesterday when we arrived and set up, but we still had a nice campfire in the evening, and a pretty sunrise this morning.

Despite the light rain, it was warm (and humid), low of 18°C overnight, barely even needed a sleeping bag, and it was nearly 30°C this afternoon.

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