| June 9, 2001
Saturday (cloudy)
We are going to an onsen
(hot spring) with Rob today. We woke up a lil late and were in much
hurry to pack all our stuff (who knew one can accumulate so much crap in
just few days) We weren't able to contact Rob for the longest
time. Turned out that he was out with his coworker last night and
didn't come back till 6 in the morning (subways stop around 12, and starts
again at 5) Then in the morning, he had Japanese lessons. We
called him from Shinjuku station. It was hard to find each other
because the station was so huge!
We had ramen for
lunch. Andy had lunch at 2 ramen places!!! (he really likes
ramen) I just had gyoza (dumplings) at the 2nd place.
We rode the JR train to
Outsuki then transfered to go to Kawaguchiko. I haven't ridden in a
train for so long (BART doesn't count) It was pretty cool that we
could turn the seats around so the 4 of us could all face each
other. I really haven't been on a
train for a long long long time.
However, it wasn't that good of an idea because it became really crowded
since all our legs are sharing the same space now. We almost missed
our stop. We woke up like one minute before we reached Outsuki, it
was a close call. At Outsuki, we took a smaller train to get to
Kawaguchiko. The hotel people are really nice. They sent a car
to pick us up, carried our bags, arranged our shoes, showed us the view
and everything =) All this w/o tips!!!! Japanese services are
so much better than America's and they don't ask for tips.
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Our train ticket |
We went around to see
the lake. It smelled pretty bad, but we saw many ppl fishing near
the shore. And we had seafood for
dinner? oh oh..... They
weren't really catching anything though, none of them carried any buckets
or ice chests. And we saw them throwing a fish back. We went
to the gaming center and played baseball at the batting cage. It's
pretty hard, we always swing too low or too high. We then found this
jinja (shrine). It was kinda spooky cuz there's no one there and it
was getting dark. But it's pretty neat, we saw the touri (gate) and
the place where you wash your hands, etc.
We had dinner at our
hotel. It was traditional Japanese food. It's a pretty
interesting experience. We had like 15 dishes, but each one is maybe
2,3 bites. We had beef, crab (both roasted by ourselves), sashimi,
and a lot of other stuff that I don't know the names of. I
had no idea when the waitress was trying to explain to me how to eat each
dish... We were so lost as to even where to start eating from.
We played video games for a while. they had the original Nintendo
there!!! Rob and my bro actually played that for quite a while (and
they went back later that night again while Andy and I were sleeping)
Then we hit the main
course of the lil trip - the onsen (hot spring). Everyone was naked
cept Andy (well, we had a lil towel to cover ourselves when we were
walking around) It felt really nice. I
mean the onsen, not cuz everyone's naked, you pervert!
I liked warming myself in the onsen and then cool down w/ a cold
shower. It felt really comfortable. I fell asleep right
afterwards.
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