It seems big financial institutes all have hiking clubs. Today we joined UBS on their trip to Kawaji Onsen need Nikko, where a 7 km hike through the woods took us to an outdoor spa.

Getting there was a three hour train ride, and having missed our scheduled return train by a minute (we could see it taking off from its elevated platform and disappearing in the mountains) we had to wait 80 minutes for the next one. The good part of having taken a train from so far out turned out to be that since they had to electronic ticket gates in Kawaji-Yumoto station, the fare adjustment machine back in Tokyo could not handle the ticket, and the station master could not find the correct fare in his handbook either, and had to let us go free. Entirely unexpected in this generally extremely well-organised country.