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Yufuin Day One

I am such a lousy daughter.

Dad and mom visited Japan more than 4 months back and i only finally got down to blogging about their trip!

Better late than never right? Excuses, excuses, excuses...Well I'd better cos otherwise when i return from Kansai trip with Alvin next week, I will have even more photos and stories to share and an even harder time trying to catch up by then!

So here goes... :)



Dad and mom arrived in Fukuoka on a sunny morning on the 8th of Nov last year. The same day in the afternoon, we took a 3hr train ride to Yufuin (由布院)in Oita prefecture which is famed for its hot spring spas(onsens)and hot spring bathing.

The train as you can see is not any other ordinary train. Like the school train which Harry Potter and friends took to Hogwarts, this train is specially bound for Yufuin, making few stops in between,where the passengers are mostly locals making a quick weekend getaway to the hot spring heaven in Kyushuu.


The seats and design of the trains are really stylish and the cafe served really good bentos and snacks too. Destination trains like these in Japan will try to earn every dollar of their commuters as can be seen from the varieties of memorabilias that are sold on board the train. Little cute but pretty much useless stuffs like keychains bearing the train logos, mugs and handphone straps, you get the idea. Somehow though they are really sellable among the Japanese themselves while here we are contented to just taking a memorabilia shot with the captain's hat and sign bearing the date that we travelled on the train :)


Arrival at the first ryokan(旅館), a traditional Japanese-styled accomodation for the night.


And dinner was served. A typical stay at a hot spring ryokan will usually include dinner and breakfast the next morning together with unlimited entries to the hot spring baths.




And here are my yukata-clad models ready to head to the open air bath for their first taste of the Japanese hot spring experience!

posted by テレサ @ 7:53 AM