Guess Where This Is

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

You mean like this one?

 

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Here's another one:

 

[onehunga 26]

Time to end this one Tengamori

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Yup. Over to you, onehunga. How long ago did you figure it out?

 

(I'll explain the clues later, unless onehunga would like to do so first.)

[grungy-gonads 54]

Looking forward to that!!

How on earth did you get that?!

[grungy-gonads 54]

You sure it's not Tengagamori?

[muikabochi 208]

Well done, Sir!

[onehunga 26]

Yup. Over to you, onehunga. How long ago did you figure it out?

 

(I'll explain the clues later, unless onehunga would like to do so first.)

Sorry, can't explain any of the clues. I didn't understand a single one. I asked my wife if she could read the signs from the last two photos and she decided to go all out and spent some time on it. She eventually found out what it was from one character you left on one of the signs.

[634-maru 4]

Very clever (wife!)

 

[onehunga 26]

A very very clever wife

[onehunga 26]

Where is this

[Alexander L 80]

Lets kick off with Hanazono

[hellyer 216]

followed up by

Kusatsu Kokasai?

[onehunga 26]

Not Hanazono, or Kusatsu

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Norn?

[onehunga 26]

Not Norn

[onehunga 26]

another view, in this one you can seemore

[Tubby Beaver 209]

Madarao

[onehunga 26]

Not Madarao

[onehunga 26]

hint 23

[Metabo Oyaji 71]

Yup. Over to you, onehunga. How long ago did you figure it out?

 

(I'll explain the clues later, unless onehunga would like to do so first.)

Sorry, can't explain any of the clues. I didn't understand a single one. I asked my wife if she could read the signs from the last two photos and she decided to go all out and spent some time on it. She eventually found out what it was from one character you left on one of the signs.

 

Well done, Mrs. onehunga!

Very very clever indeed.

 

 

The only identifying character I think I left visible was the far right tips of 森 from 天下森 on the left edge of the picture of the lift sign. I thought this might be enough to provide confirmation if someone got the prefecture from the hints, and then went through the list of ski areas in Akita, or those in Akita with pair lifts. Is that how she got it? (I would be especially impressed if she figured out that the character was 森 without the other hints! --and feel like an idiot that none of my other hints worked at all in that case…)

 

 

In any event, here is the explanation of hints for Tengamori ski area in Yokote, Akita:

 

 

Akita is known for its Kanto (竿燈) Matsuri, one of the 3 major festivals of Tohoku.

 

 

The Hatahata is the prefectural fish of Akita prefecture.

 

 

Akita prefecture produces more capacitors than any other prefecture in Japan.

 

 

Yokote city is home to Yokote Yakisoba, a local specialty.

 

 

Yokote city is also home to the Yokote Kamakura Matsuri.

 

 

十

The nearest train station is Jumonji (十文字) Station, and the nearest highway interchange is Jumonji IC.

 

 

Mt. Naccho in Kyoto prefecture is also known as Tengamori -- but not written the same way as the name of the ski area (天ヶ森 as opposed to 天下森).

 

 

Akita dog.

 

 

Ono no Komachi, famous historical Akita beauty and author of one of the poems in the Hyakunin Isshu collection, and after whom Akita Komachi rice and the Komachi shinkansen are named.

 

 

Kiritanpo, an Akita specialty

 

 

I'm also a very patient one, but have to admit to getting a bit, how you say, tired of this.

tired of this: 飽きた (akita).

 

 

The nearly vertical bevel-edge line in the center of this photo of a sword tip is called a “yokote” (横手), written using the same characters as Yokote city.

 

 

Ten “ga”

More “E”

 

 

Sore dewa, oyasumi.

The ski area is located within the boundaries of the old province of Dewa (~=present-day Yamagata+Akita)

 

 

Teresa Teng

Newton’s 2^nd Law of Motion, F = ma, => F/m = a

Shin-ichi Mori

[surfarthur 22]

Rusutsu?

[Alexander L 80]

MO, you over estimate the audience

[Alexander L 80]

Happo One

[Alexander L 80]

Kagura