Today we headed for the mountains as you can see there was a bit of snow about.

First stop was shinoda. I had some orders for some doitsu showa's and sanke and once again he did not fail us,we even got a couple of doitsu shiro's. several members of the party also bought koi here.

We left shinoda and headed off to sekiguchi where two members of our party were hopping to buy bigger showas but unfortunatly he sold out, myself and ken bought a box of pearl gin rin mix go sanke for stock and the forth coming shows,

next stop was Takahashi another great showa breeder but also has other veriety's 2 more box's of koi were bought one of them containing a very nice gin rin tancho showa.

we headed back to ojiya and stopped off at Isa but again he to had sold out of larger koi so we quickly headed to Torazo, here some higher end koi were bought two for hobbyists on the trip and one for stock.

.Day 4