Kameya Rakan
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Kameya Rakan from our 2 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Ito
Visit to Ito-shi, to relax in their hotspring tubs
In short: We went to a small town called Ito to enjoy their famous hot spring bathtubs. The experience was wonderful, specially due to how traditionally the hotel room and food was. It would have been better to go during the cherry blossom season (late March), but the town was still wonderful. Lilly had booked a trip for us to Ito, a town south of …
My longest blog in ths trip so far
... than double of some other places (700¥). I've never been to an onzen, can't compare if this is worthed. Anyhow, I enjoyed it very much. It was seperated by men and women. I was a bit uneasy walking around with "nothing"; seeing everyone is doing the same thing, who cares. There is an outdoor pool and different pools indoor. We have total spent 1 hr and 15 min for only the onzen, including shower, 'cus we have to catch a train. If I had more time, I could ...
Trains, Cable Cars and Pirate Ships!
... tourists ( not being a fan of hard boiled eggs we both gave them a miss). Everywhere you looked there were plumes of smoke coming out of the ground and beside the cable car station was a great gash in the landscape full of steam where there had been a bad landslide and they were trying to stabilise it (or at least that’s what we thought the sign said - a Chinese girl on the cable car had told us it was a copper mine - so I’m not 100% sure). Getting back on ...
Tokyo to Izu Oshima
... as you enter, put on house slippers for the corridors, and enter the bedroom with bare feet only. You even have to have special toilet slippers for the loos.
Dinner was served at six. The inn had sorted out a veggie meal for us of vegetable tempura, pickled lettice, shredded daikon radish, spinach, seaweed soup, cooked pumpkin and rice. It brought back good memories for Joan.
Next is a formal bath and then bed.
...
The Elusive Mt Fuji
... good views of Mount Fuji. We also have a slight problem with clothes and shoes for tomorrow as we have left our fleeces in the suitcases which are now on their way to Tokyo and I get the feeling it may be cold as we go higher up; also our walking boots are still soaking wet from Sunday’s expedition to Nara in the typhoon (we’ve had to put plastic bags on our feet to keep our feet and socks dry when we put them on to travel in ...