Where to go this weekend? Quiet leisure time at Lake Shirakaba.

In the melting summer of 2022, I'm not in the mood for floating seas or stoic mountains. What will surely suit such a mood is a lake. Lake Shirakaba, located in Chino, Nagano, where the "Lake Resort" is conceived, is not a place where you go to do something with a purpose. It is simply a place to drift. The lake taught me how to spend leisure time, not leisure time, by chewing time and savoring space.

Photo_Kengo Inuzuka
Edit_Yuka Koga

TOTONOU (reveitalize).

On summer evenings when the heat has calmed down, it is a good idea to take a sauna. The outdoor tent sauna features a room temperature of 80 to 90 degrees Celsius, which is not too high.

The temperature can be adjusted using the self-lowering method. Even those who do not like the oppressive feeling and high temperature characteristic of saunas can sweat comfortably.