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Awesome. There is no better word to describe the first 2 weeks of life in Japan. Although things did not go too smoothly in the first few days, I have expected it would happen since I am living in a new country and under a completely different, unique system. There must be a learning, adjustment [...] We woke up at around 8:30 and the first thing that Dave said in the morning was “I still feel my (wiener) is burning”. Great way to start off the day!! For the first stop of the day, Tomoka brought us to the nearby Takasakiyama, where more than a thousand monkeys reside. Those monkeys were running [...] We finally checked in to the Ryokan. It was cheap and less than 6000 yen (without meals though). Super nice. The staff brought us to the room….the bathroom is shared (one big one per floor), but the room was spacy and had nice setup. But the most important thing wasn’t the room, but the onsen [...] Our next jigoku destination was Kamado jigoku (Boiling hell…Kama means Japanese style rice pot). There are quite a few interesting spots in this jigoku. First, there are water fountains for people to drink the water. The water tasted like….er…. sulphur water. Then next to the fountains are muddy volcaninc pits. Then a few steps away [...] Today destination: Beppu!! Beppu is one of the biggest Hot Spring town in Japan. There are a ton of ryokan here and wikitravel has a short list of them, and if you want to more luxyrious ones, just google it. The main tourist attraction is the 8 jigoku, or “hells” when translated to English, and buying [...] |
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