Midweek vacation in Shirahama
posted August 5, 2005
We just returned from acouple days in Shirahama, a seaside onsen (hot spring) resort in Wakayama prefecture, about 3 hours by express train (Ocean Arrow or Super Kuroshio) from Kyoto Station. Here’s the southward view out the window of our hotel room, and Greg lounging in yukata after his first-ever swim in the ocean.
You are the richest man in the world.
That yukata is priceless! (Or, more accurately, him in it is). I should get one for Anthony.
Many years ago I went over the main beach in Shirayama with a metal dector, collecting all the many 500-yen coins people had lost over the years. And all the garbage too — Japanese beaches, sadly, are the most garbage filled I’ve ever seen )-:
It’s been a while — must be many more 500-yen coins waiting to be harvested. I should go again. :-)
David, it would be so much more convenient to be ACTUALLY rich than metaphorically rich, but I didn’t even think to bring a metal detector to Shirahama.
The view reminds me of a view from an onsen resort in Atami. Lovely
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