All you need is Onioshidashi
“English?” asked the attendant checking entrance tickets into Onioshidashi Park. “You like John Lennon?”With that he pulled out a much-handled laminated photo, taken in the 1970s. It was a standard family holiday photo but the people looked familiar. With a jolt I realised it was of Lennon, Yoko Ono, and a very young Sean Lennon. “Taken where you stand now!” he gesticulated.
“The landscape of solidified lava and rock was dotted with vivid green plants growing where they could”
My guide, Soichi, explained that John and Yoko had spent their summers in the nearby resort town of Karuizawa for what was to be the final four years of Lennon’s life. Like me, they had come to Onioshidashi to marvel at the extraordinary landscape formed from an eruption of
