Month: November 2018

Myoken Onsen

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A Thunderstorm Brought an Unexpected Surprise  On our last day in Kagoshima, we woke up to a thunderstorm – and out went the plans to go Ibusuki 指宿 (couldn’t imagine taking a wet sand bath). We could have moved to Myoken Onsen 妙見温泉 immediately but the ryokan staff […]

Chichibu – The First Onsen

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I remembered we got on and off trains a lot to get to the Chichibu onsen. It wouldn’t be far from the truth to say the  journey left a deeper impression than the onsen. Yet, we weren’t done after we stepped off the last train at Minano – […]