“Yeonhoo! Let’s shoot here too!”
“With mountains in the background?”
“Come up the mountain! Drop the selfie stick down!”
We got off the bus and, excitedly, started taking pictures here and there. Shining your eyes at the Japanese and other building styles you hear around you.
It was rather difficult to feel on the way home, but as soon as I got off the bus, I immediately felt, ‘Oh, you’re in a foreign country.’ Perhaps it would have been difficult to get this kind of feeling if I went to a place like Tokyo. The unique atmosphere of this hot spring town makes it even more tangible.
It was a town that somehow reminds me of Sen and Chixro I saw as a child. Because it was in the mountains, the air was clear. After taking dozens of photos only near the terminal, I moved on.
“Isn’t the ryokan going all the way up this way?”
“Uh. If you call, they will send you a pick-up bus or something like that, but it’s not too far away, so I’ll just walk. Isn’t it hard?”
“It’s not hard at all~ There’s a restaurant I’ve been looking for on the way, so let’s eat there.”
“Well, it’s check-in time soon, but it’s check-in, so it’s okay if you go a little slower, okay.”
Holding hands with Heena, I entered the alley next to the wide central road in front of the terminal. Then, cute wooden buildings, various restaurants, and pretty streets were spread out in front of them.
I looked at them and walked slowly. As in Japan, there were places that sold anime movies, and there were also various food stalls and stalls for tourists.
There are so many delicious street foods out there, I just can’t pass up.
“Heena! That! Can’t you just eat that one?”
As I was walking down the street, I stopped and pointed to a dango sold at a small stall. When you travel, you have to eat local food!
“Ugh, really… I need to eat now… That’s all, okay?”
Heena pinched my cheek a little as I ran wild next to her, smiled once as if she couldn’t help it, and walked over to the stall.
After a while, he buys a skewer with three round dango sticks and returns. Japan uses up to 1 yen, so you put jingle coins in your pocket.
“Wow, it’s so sweet.”
“I can’t eat much. It’s too sweet~”
The dango was very sweet as expected. But, it’s not as sweet as I thought it would be, should I say it’s a little deep? It’s a bit sticky and sweet, so it’s not for my taste.
At first, there were only three of them, so we shared them quickly and walked down the road again. Besides dango, there were many things I wanted to eat, such as soft serve ice cream and takoyaki, but I had to eat rice because I only ate triangle gimbap and dango today.
After walking a little more as if taking a leisurely stroll, Heena entered another alley on the way. Then he led me to the restaurant he had been searching for. As we entered the slightly dark atmosphere of an izakaya-like atmosphere from the entrance, the clerks welcomed us.
I don’t know what to say.
“What are you selling?”
“Fufu… look forward to it!”
Whether there is a signature menu or not, Heena finished ordering right away before she sat down and opened the menu.
Heena also placed an order in pretty clumsy Japanese, but the clerks seemed to be accustomed to it, so they kindly bowed her head and accepted it.
But what is unagi? That was the only word that came into my ears.
I looked around, but there were no other customers sitting nearby, so I had no idea what they were selling. It is difficult to judge by smell. Heena also glanced around the inside of the store once, and sighed a small sigh of relief.
“I’m glad it’s a famous place, so if there were a lot of people, I just wanted to go somewhere else.”
“okay?”
“Yeah! I think we got the date right.”
I was just leaving as quickly as possible. Still, even though I came to a tourist spot, it was not crowded at all, so the timing was definitely good.
After chatting and waiting for a while, side dishes on pretty plates came up one by one on the table, and various sauce containers were prepared next to them. And it wasn’t long before we arrived at the main menu.
In a very large bowl of rice, a bowl of rice was placed in front of me, topped with sauce and fish. Next to it was a Japanese-style miso soup that I was familiar with.
Before eating, I was trying to poke some kind of fish with my chopsticks for a while, and Heena took a few pictures of the food and gave me the answer.
“This is a bowl of rice, Yeonhuya.”
“I understand that… What rice bowl?”
“Eel~”
“Aha, eel… eel?”
“yes!”
I didn’t know much about fish, but I’ve heard myths about what eels are good for. He says it’s really good for men.
I wondered if he had come here in that sense, so when I glanced at him, I saw Heena’s face with a smile on her face.
-tuk
With a smile on her face, she said, putting even her share of a piece of eel on my rice bowl.
“You have to eat a lot and get stronger. If you want to eat more, tell me!”
“…Yes. Thank you.”
“Make sure to eat vegetables as well. These also look delicious~”
The rice bowl in front of him is in the back, and when he sees the side dishes being driven one by one near me, a strange feeling of pressure begins to creep up.
Seeing her with a happy face as I watched the spoonfuls come out one by one, I felt a great sincerity.
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In the end, after eating 1.5 servings of eel-don for Heena’s share, I headed back to the ryokan, pounding my full stomach. Since various ryokans have been located since leaving the alleyway, there were no stalls, restaurants, or shops, and only the clean country road caught my eye.
Our destination was a little further inside, so we climbed uphill slowly at a leisurely pace.
“If it’s hard, will you pick up my bag?”
“No, it’s soon.”
After passing through such a green mountain road, we arrived at a ryokan inside a stone wall that looks like something out of a Japanese youth healing movie. The harmony between the wood, the stone wall, and the ryokan was so perfect that I burst out in exclamation without realizing it.
I wanted to see more, but I have to check-in first.
As we enter through the old-fashioned sliding door, an impressive grandmother greets us with a respectful bow.
“welcome.”
“We, we made a reservation.”
With surprising politeness, he reflexively faced each other awkwardly, bowed his head once, stuttered, and spoke in Japanese. Then, when I showed the voucher that I had captured with my phone, my grandmother confirmed it with my own eyes and immediately guided us with her hand gestures.
We got out of the building that looked like the main building we had entered, turned around and climbed the mountain road a little bit. And on the way, there were two large outdoor hot spring baths, probably family baths. When you enter after changing the sign outside, it can only be used by your party.
There was no reason for us to come all the way here and use the bath, so we looked at it with our own eyes and didn’t pay any attention to it.
Our room, when we arrived only after that, was a small detached building occupied by a team.
“Oh my gosh, it’s so pretty~”
“Really… Wow, I’ll definitely have to take a picture later.”
The trees around it are beautifully trimmed, and I was itching to take a picture of the very charming surrounding scenery right away. I’ve already checked the reviews from many travelers, but seeing it in reality was completely different.
But I can’t do that right now, so I went inside with my grandmother and listened to detailed explanations. In fact, rather than listening to explanations, they gave me a pamphlet with Korean written on it, so I mostly checked it.
When and where to eat dinner, how to use heating or air conditioning, what kind of food is in the refrigerator and how much is paid, etc.
And the long-awaited wooden shower room that you can see when you open the door in the back corner and an outdoor hot spring bath full of atmosphere under the greenery! The bath was bigger than I thought, so even 4 people could fit in without a problem.
Grandma checked us all the way there, and finally gave us the key to lock the door. After that, he bowed his head politely again and went outside. Now, this cute building, which now has a large living room with a room and a hot spring, was our own space for three days.
As soon as we made sure Grandma had gone completely, we threw our bags away and couldn’t contain our excitement.
“What do you do! What do you do? I love this place!”
“Crazy, really! What, what do you do first? Shall we take pictures around here first?!”
“Come on! Hurry up!”
To be honest, as soon as I entered this place, I thought I would start off with lewd thoughts, but it was such a wonderful place that I didn’t feel like that at all. When I go back, I want to write a long article with a full review score.
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Me and Heena immediately ran out of the door and started posing and taking pictures in all kinds of places.
“Here! Can you take a picture of the whole building?”
“I think we should set a timer and set it up. Wait a minute.”
As soon as I arrived in Japan, it seemed that half of what I did was filming, but the original trip leaves memories in the end. Thanks to Heena, the countless photos I have taken are organized by date in my computer folder. Sometimes it’s fun to watch.
Anyway, after taking pictures like that for a while, after about an hour or so, I came back to the room exhausted, probably because I ran too fast. I was sweating a little too.
“Shall we take a quick shower? Because we have a little more time until dinner.”
“Well then. Wear comfortable clothes…Ah! Would you like to wear a yukata?”
“Oh, that’s right! It must have been next to the refrigerator… Here it is.”
When I checked, one pair for men and one for women were prepared. Did you look at the passport information at the time of reservation and bring it along?
The men’s were of a plain type with dark blue stripes on a white background without any major features, and the women’s were brightly embroidered with floral patterns on a very pale pink background. The belt is also red.
To be honest, I had no interest in anything for men, and I really wanted to see Heena wearing a women’s yukata. Immediately, I decided to go to the bathroom and Heena to wash up and put on each other in the shower.
It was me, barely wiping away the sweat, and putting on a yukata that was worn like a gown over my underwear. Just fasten the waist strap. After that, after waiting for a while in the living room, Heena came out soon after.
“Did you come out quickly?”
Her face was slightly reminded that she had showered properly, and her collarbone was exposed between the yukata.
Even though it is a wide type of clothing, Heena’s curved chest and pelvis line below the waist are subtly exposed.
in a yukata.