Onsen Hotel in Kobe

... day before. Woke up at 11am and only left the hotel at 12nn. We decided to skip Kitano-cho in Kobe and proceed directly to Arima onsen since it was already past 1pm when we were ready to depart for Kobe. At Shin Osaka station, we bought tickets ...

... new onsen. After my recent experience at the new onsen, my former #1 onsen has been bumped to #2. Why? This onsen is a part of a nice hotel and is an outdoor onsen set up high in the mountains overlooking the Pacific. The actual baths are ...

... low table (Japanese - style room again, yippieh!), served me tea and a sweet and then explained the different onsens to me (7 public onsen plus each ryokan has a variety of private baths as well)... It was almost like having a butler - she asked me when I ...

... that happened earlier that day while we were contentedly walking the Akihabarra district in Tokyo. The other guests in our hotel in Kobe were crowded around the television in the foyer as news of the destruction was being shown on every channel. But ...

... volunteered to sleep on the floor of the dorm. A nice little hostel with free internet, a cafe, and most importantly, their own Onsen - which was roughly 120 degrees and left third-degree burns.  After check in, birnie and I headed to the Onsen to ...

... about 20 minutes. The tickets cost about 7.5pounds per person, which gets you the ferry ride (roundtrip) AND entry into the hotel spa/Onsen! bargain! Arriving on the island we wanted to test out the beach first, After walking for over half an hour we ...

... up the mountain with a drunken night of Karoake and I consumed alot of sake! After very little sleep I headed for the city onsen to alleviate my hangover the next day before heading out for a meal in an ace okinonami-yaki (japansese style pancake) ...

... aftAenen før. Fra Nagano gik turen til Hakuba med bus, Hakuba er et rimeligt stort ski område med et fantastisk bjerglandskab. Vores hotel ligger desværre lidt udenfor hovedområdet, så vi er afhængige af busser til at køre os frem og tilbage ...

... 6. Hiroshima 7. Kamakura - One day excursion from Tokyo is enough. 8. Nagoya - How come? 9. Hakone - Try an onsen hot sprig. 10. Kobe - Luminarie Decoration Lights are splended 11. Himeji - Castle is its only attraction, but worth visiting. 12. Nikko ...

... checking out, we decided to walk to the nearest subway station rather than take a taxi (about an 8 minute walk), since the hotel's shuttle service to Shinjuku Station had not yet started for the day. We had shipped our suitcases to Mayumi's house via ...

... have been the season or it could always have been like that, but the town was blissfully quiet. The volcanic waters here (onsen means hot spring) are rumored to cure constipation and arthritis, and even to make you look younger. The onsen experience is ...

... so well stocked as it was charming and elegant. If it wasn't pleasing to the eye, the Japanese couldn't have used it. The Onsen (spring bath) Michi persuaded me to go for a soak in the Onsen (Japanese hot spring bath). The Onsen culture in Japan is ...

... and Peace Park. We spent a night on the island of Miyajima before coming back to Tokyo and spending our last night in a capsule hotel (again separate floors for George and I) which was even better than I thought it would be and not at all like a ...

... I am now watching the X-Files movie whilst waiting for my load of washing to finish). The other great things about this hotel.. it has free wi-fi, a free onsen (the others here cost 600Y each time), you can ski to the door of the ski storage and lockers ...

... once I thought that my stomach would burst. All that cheese plus rice plus plus......I wanted to try everything... We also went to Onsen the natural springs for relaxation. I loved it. After the camp I took the ferry again this time round the west coast ...

... around 1:30.  I was really keen to see the Peace Park and Atomic Dome, but knew that we were booked for a hotel in Miyajima, (a small-ish island of the coast of Hiroshima), and that dragging all our luggage through Hiroshima and the park would ...