Busy day looking for koi at many breeders. Not able to find anything to suit customers orders.
We hope to travel out tomorrow to a breeder who is an hour away from our hotel base ,we hope to find some better priced koi tomorrow to fit budgets.Sorry but only picture of our journey around the hills. Most of the morning was damp but dried out a little in the afternoon.

Busy day traveling around many breeders today ,lots of heavy showers making koi selecting difficult outside.Found some very nice Doitsu koi at Shinoda. Then not far away was Masaki who is slowly reducing his stock ready for retirement.The rain stopped long enough so i could net out a good selection of 7 koi from an outside pond.

Leave Isawa by train , early in the morning back to Tokyo .Change trains three times to visit the breeder Kurryman who lives just outside theTokyo area. Look at many koi and bowl for closer inspection and prices but I only brought one box of twenty three koi at 17 – 22 cm in size. After a busy afternoon netting out koi we then get back onto more trains onto Nagaoka. Arrived late afternoon in the dark and wet ,with rain lightening and thunder going on all around the town. Into our hotel which will be our base for the rest of the trip.Next day heading out in a hire car traveling into the hills of yamakoshi and Niigata area .