Kinosaki Onsen

"It would be nice to go to some hot spring in autumn, wouldn't it?" I remembered that my younger daughter said so before. So we went to Kinosaki Onsen in Hyogo Prefecture with my family including married elder daughter last week. Because the crab season began from November 7th this year.

The weather was not good, but we enjoyed sumptuous crab dinner at a comfortable ryokan, a Japanese style hotel. We also enjoyed the famous hot spring.




Next day, after we went around some souvenir shops, we went to Nova, a coffee house near Kinosaki Onsen railway station.



The coffee was good and the music was nice. I asked to the owner's wife what music was this. She showed us the CD jacket of the music. This was LANDSCAPES by Jan Lundgren Trio, a Swedish Jazz band.





We stopped over at Amanohashidate on our way home. Amanohashidate is famous as one of the Three Views of Japan since old times. It means the bridge to the heaven. I've been there twice before, but my wife and daughters visited there for the first time. We took the chair lift to 'View Land' and enjoyed 'Matanozoki' that was seeing from between your legs. Amanohashidate of 'Matanozoki' was seen like a dragon flying up to the heaven. It was a strange experience.





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