TsukuBlog
In Winter, it’s Usually Clear Skies in Tsukuba – bringing distant sacred mountains into view!
11 December, 2020
By Avi Landau
Visitors cannot get a full view of Mt Fuji anymore from the top of Tsukuba`s Mitsui Building- its only possible to make out the tip of its northern slope
A climb up the slopes of Mt Tsukuba has long provided a view, which in this mostly mountainous country, can be said to be unique – a vast plain, rolling out into the horizon. For a nation of herders or ranchers ( which the Japanese are not), this part of Japan might have been the most attractive part of the whole archipelago, and the Tsukuba area would long, long ago have been turned into pastureland for grazing cattle.