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Travel Blogs from Ito
My longest blog in ths trip so far
... 2-3 hrs there to use there beautiful ladies only rest area (no additional charge). The restaurant looks nice too, not sure about the taste. The spa area, ladies only, looks very professional, however the price seems to be higher than the Canadians' hotel spa. I do recommend this onzen. BTW, no pictures were taken, except at the entrance of the building.
Had a burger with onion at the Fuji train station while waiting for our train, MOS Burger, it was ...
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
... br>
Finally we reached the main town of Motomachi and went to Hama-no-yu onsen. This is an outside hot spa on a cliff overlooking the port. On clear days there are fine views of Mt Fuji, but today was cloudy. Still there was something tranquil about sitting in a hot pool, watching rain clouds gather over the volcano.
One thing that struck Joan on her first visit to Japan was the vending machines almost on ...
The Elusive Mt Fuji
... the mountains where our hotel is. The hotel was built in the late 1800’s and from the pictures on the walls it’s where royalty used to stay when they visited the area. Whilst its full of character its also very expensive - one cup of coffee in the coffee shop is £8.50 (we found a slightly cheaper alternative down the street)!
Unfortunately there seem to be no little local restaurants in the town so we have just been to ...
Japan moto trip (Izu Skyline)
... day riding a bike here, and I’d found one of the most wicked routes to ride in my life. It’s a skyline for sure, you get views from the ridgeline across the peninsular east and west and it’s fun just to sit and chill at a look out, watching other motorcyclists cruise by, or ogle the other parked bikes. Basically there’s not a straight section of road from the Toyo Tires Turnpike (closed when I went so I had to take Hwy 1) all the way ...