Back from KINOSAKI ONSEN which was still lovely and where I took so many baths, I’m trying to put the pics on the website but from where I am it doesn’t seem to work , will try later
riddle… it’s like a crunchy cookie and it has legs and I had it as an appetizer for dinner in my minshuku in TSUMAGO….. what is it?
Well I went back to TSURUYA RYOKAN which I highly recommend since the owner is nice and speaks English, he even advised me to see the fireworks, and the ryokan is in the center of town.
I spent two days basically hopping from onsen to onsen and doing nothing else. Also had a nice lunch and dinner in a small restaurant serving fish and shells… lovely sazae and hotate…grilled.
my neighbour was an old japanese lady from Osaka who gave me her sashimi because she didn’t want it and we had been in the same onsen.
It was so relaxing
I hope they take me there again because when I left I forgot my room key in my pocket and only realized when I was already in the train…. ya daaaa!!!
Then it took me from 9.30 to 4 to arrive in TSUMAGO, a lovely village in the KISO VALLEY.
I quite fell in love with MINSHUKU DAIKICHI and with the village in itself because it looks just as if a samourai was about to cross the street and even the postman is wearing edo jidai clothes.
You can see some pictures on this link
The next day I walked 8 kilometres to the village of MAGOME I must say I thought I was going to die but the hike is very pleasant. I would suggest to do it from Magome because it’s down most of the way while from Tsumago it was mostly up. The path goes along the river with a waterfall at some point and lovely houses, you can even buy vegetables… they are just there in a bucket of cold water with the price and you put the money on a little shelf.
Magome is built on the hill and I had never seen a village built that way because it’s so steep.
It’s more touristy than Tsumago (there’s even a Magome Kitty) I think, you get big highway buses stopping there with their share of foreigners and japanese.
I came back by bus and relaxed before dinner.
that’s all Tsumago and Magome
My lovely lunch at daikichi ryokan (oishiiii)
leaving Tsumago there is a lovely fountain
Then ready to walk 8km uphill all the way in the forest to Magome
the village is built on the hill
OK I’m going to reveal what I had for dinner as an appetizer it was grasshopper ( yeah 3 of them ) they are called inago in japanese.
They taste just like little biscuits with legs, they are very crunchy.
OOOOO le petit biscuit avec des pattes !!!
And here’s Kinosaki onsen.
My lovely breakfast at Ryokan Tsuruya
a little frog outside the onsen signals the feet bath, in front of the station you can see the geta with the name of all the ryokans
inside one of the changing rooms outside the baths a stamp to keep as a souvenir
茉莉音chan Marionchan 