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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
河津の旅
august, damien, calvin, joanna and I went to Kawazu, in Izu, on rented car last saturday. The purpose? To see early sakura blossoms and to have a nice dip in a nice onsen with nice view. so lucky readers, you can expect to see some nice pink flowers and some naked guys in this post!
we reached the place just after noon, and there were expectedly, a lot of people there. I'm not sure whether it's for the whole of japan, but I heard that the sakura blooms earliest in these parts, hence august, the planner who doesn't plan, jioed us along there.
ojisans taking pictures under the sakura tree.
close up shots - this breed of sakura are supposed to be pinker than the others... or are they? hmm..
3 shuai ges and 1 fatso.
it wasnt a particularly pretty place - imagine kallang river beside, say potong pasir. what's nice are the sakura and the yellow flowers...
yellow flowers... nice hor? nicer than pink anyway ;)
there were of course lotsa stalls set up to earn the tourists' money... mostly food stalls, but there was a monkey busking as well.
of particular interest was this...
guess what?
closer view... still dunno?
yummy.... for those who still dunno... its CHICKEN SKIN!!! 400 yen for a cup, a tad expensive.. but the enjoyment - priceless!!
what can be better than having chicken karage on one hand, and chicken kawa on another... ok lah.. lots ;p but still.... pure bliss!
there was a shop selling fishes, and got samples with which we can bbq by ourselves... tasted like ikan bilis.
the monkey on stilts... amazing how he picked up the long stilts all by himself, climbed it without any help or support, and walked ard on it!
not sure what this building is for, but its here cos it looks interesting!
afterwhich, we proceeded to a nearby, advertised onsen with nice seaview... we sort of didnt know where it was in the first place, and was pretty apprehensive about going in when we saw the outside view...
looks kinda gross rite?
well, fortunately the interior looked new, and it was half-priced at 500 yen, because some parts are undergoing renovation! hence it became a real too-good-to-miss deal.
there they have an open-air onsen overlooking the sea, and another mixed-sex onsen. sadly, you have to wear their swimming costumes. and even worse, no gals whatsoever when we were there ;p only gribe about the place - not enough shower heads.
a bit paiseh at taking pics at first, so august took one through the doorway of the changing room.
realising that the uncle with the nice butt was taking pics liberally, august became more liberal with his shots as well.
4 of us nekkid... hehe... nice view hor? the pics in the advertisements dun have the metal bars leh...
another of us, with another backdrop.
1 taken in the mixed onsen... nobody else one leh.
after the great onsen, we went back to take some night shots before leaving the place...
me, damien, joanna, august, calvin
we had our dinner at a nearby viking restaurant. viking meaning buffet in japan. for 2000, we had a nice yakiniku buffet, plus other food as well... quite good deal hor? considering what's available...
all scallops!!! muahaha... i must have eaten like 10 scallops on that nite!
sorry too busy for pics!
posted by winz at 10:06 AM
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2 Comments:
Great to see more stuff about your life in Japan... It's been ages since you have updated your blog with photos and writeup of the trips that you have taken. Hope you are well. :)
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Anonymous, at
3:12 AM
hehe... thanks.. i am ;)
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winz, at
10:19 AM
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