http://awia.jp/en/just_the_fax/Sept04.htm
"In Aizu at the end of September, a walk will be held over 3 days in
order to re-trace the steps of an intrepid English female adventurer.
Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was a woman who refused to stay home and
accepts the constraints of Victorian society, and consequently was
one of the first foreigners to travel to the hitherto unexplored
Japanese countryside. Read the biography "Amazing Traveller: Isabella
Bird" detailing her time in Japan, and other expeditions."