Tenninkyo Grand Hotel
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Day 3
My Dad and Bryan woke up around 4:00 am since we went to sleep so
early, but I woke up around 6:30 am (slept for about 11 hours). We
promptly packed up our belongings and left the hostel to go rent a
car. It all unfolded without a hitch! We ate breakfast at what seemed
like a Japanese breakfast chain, which was very good. We hit the road
around 9:00 and headed for Asahikawa, with our ultimate destination
being Sounkyo Youth Hostel in ...
Lavender fields...
... Japanese tourist are around in masses; quite a spectacle by itself. We actually had to start booking our train journeys and accommodations in advance as we'd encountered too many places fully sold out (and the actual summer holidays haven't even started yet!).
Unfortunately our second day in Furano was a rainy one. Everybody assured us that this is really uncommon, but well, it didn't stop all day. We still tried to venture out but in the end had to retreat to dry indoors.
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Shower me with flowers
The ride to Furano was smooth, though the weather seemed unpredictable. The worst thing happened when we're about to take the lift up the hill. A shower came down and poured on us! We're on the lift and was helpless~ Fortunately it stopped shortly after. After the rain, the view was different.
I'm not a fan of flowers, but good ...
Bathing and Catty Wompass !!
... scrubbing and abnormal quantities of conversation considering the circumstance. Don't get me wrong I am quite comfortable with being in the buff every now and then. I mean its primal, liberating and lets one really get in touch with parts of oneself that may be forgotten every now and then ( hmm ... you know what I mean). Yeah so first things first you drop trow in a room full of tatami mats and find a cubby hole for all of your clothes. You grab ...
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