Japanese Hill Walk

Here’s a video of me walking up a Japanese Hill from the ground level by a river right up to the top to get a view over Kanazawa city.

It’s for a weight loss site that I run, that is why I am pushing myself so hard to get to the top as quickly as I can. The path is very steep in places which may not be so obvious from the video. But you can tell by how high above the city I get in such a short time.

This area has a lot of vegetation including bamboo since it is hot and humid in Summer and there is plenty of rain in some seasons. These hills are steep since the land is formed from ancient volcanic activity where the flat land is very close to steeply rising hills and mountains.

So people tend to live near the sea where the land is still flat but those at the edges of the city living on the hill sides can suffer from land slides which can wipe out their fragile homes. But you can buy cheap property or rent cheaply in these areas.