ゆるキャン△ Vol. 13 🏕

As I commented last week, Nadeshiko and Sakura visit Utsubuna Park this chapter. The first panel of page 29, in particular, is here. I’m pretty sure these are the stairs to Naisenji, though I’m not too sure that’s actually where Sakura has parked - Utsubuna Park has a parking lot, but Google’s only got two good photos of it (and a photosphere), but none of them particularly resemble the panel.

Actually, Utsubuna Park is largely lacking in street view or photo spheres entirely, but there’s lots of photos - here is the gazebo on page 32, and here is the viewing platform on 33 (ooo, look at that view). Here is the park map. Not entirely sure why Nadeshiko thinks it’s a bit of a drive to get there - Google’s telling me it’s only a ten minute walk or so from the station, though with the caveat that Google doesn’t actually know where the pedestrian entrance to the park is.

As mentioned in dialogue, their next stop is Mount Minobu. The top of page 34 is the main gate, and they make it to here before the guy stops them at the bottom of the same page, so she turns off here on the following page. Bottom of that page is here. I’m admittedly not too sure where the sakura tree they had been intending to visit for is located, but Google does have this photo. Page 36: first panel, third panel. Page 37 is a bit too nondescript to place, especially considering the Street View wasn’t done during sakura season, but it’ll be along that road somewhere.

On page 38, Rin is still where she was last chapter.

I… can’t work out where they are on page 39*. Page 40, though, they’re parked at the Wanizuka no Sakura Parking Lot, because in the next panel, they’re at… Wanizuka no Sakura, logically enough. (This place actually come up before - way way back in chapter 55 (volume 10), it was Saito’s suggestion for somewhere they might go for hanami.) On page 41, Sakura is taking her photo from over there.

* It’s actually an hour’s drive from their last known location on page 36 to where they are on page 40 (in the process driving past the turnoff to where Rin currently is), so finding where they are on page 39 isn’t really as straightforward as just driving the distance in Street View (though there are a few vague possibilities, like Yamanashiken Fujikawa Craft Park or Oboshi Park). Hmm.

On page 41, Rin… is still where she was last chapter. On page 44, though, she arrives at Yama no Yu (here is the second panel of 44, and here is the bottom panel of 45, albeit from a different angle). And she stays there the rest of the chapter, until she rides off into the sunset in the final panel… on a road… somewhere.

Whew, this one wound up quite wordy.


Page 47, aha, there’s the all-star hanami camp. I see. Rin’s just getting in some extra me time beforehand, I guess?

Page 54, omake panel, today I learnt about the unit PS, which is essentially the metric equivalent of the horsepower (1 PS = 0.9863 hp). The name comes from the German pferdestärke. Which means “horse power”. (The rest of the world has just used kilowatts to measure power since 1972.) 20 metres per manju doesn’t seem like particularly good fuel efficiency, mind. Though, if she can produce the power output of forty-three metric horses…

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