Road Trip

We went on a road trip and drove nearly to the northern end of Honshu (the largest island of Japan) to the Iwate prefecture. We went to attend a car show but we gave ourselves lots of time to explore along the way.

We stopped at Nasu first. That is the place where I took the photos in the last entry about onsens. We stayed at a little ryokan called Pension Nasuka. When you book a room in a ryokan you get dinner and breakfast. This inn was a little charmer and served French cuisine for both dinner and breakfast. The room was small but clean, the hot springs were marvelous! (this pic is shot down the narrow hall to the room.)

The next stop was on the Pacific coast in the little town of Minami Sanriku. We stayed in a hotel on the topmost floor to see the view. This time it was a traditional tatami room. When I opened the curtians to see the view, this is what I saw- and behind him, this- the lines floating in the water are oyster, salmon (squares in the distance), abalone, and wakame farms.

Still looking at me-