Trees and Ponds, "Water Garden" in Nasu Highland

Even though, the "Water Garden" seemed like a natural landscape, it actually was a man-made garden.

The garden was created in 2018. It was designed by Junya Ishigami who has received lots of awards including the Japan Institute of Architecture Award and a new architecture prize, the Obel Prize, which noted that Water Garden was regarded as an "influential idea that could redefine the future path of architecture."

It is said that the Water Garden was originally forest, which first became rice paddies, the next pastures and then became a current form of the garden with 318 trees and 160 ponds. 

I Go To 'Trick Art Museum' in Nasu #2

The walls of the museum were painted beautifully and illuminated in the evening.

I Go To 'Trick Art Museum' in Nasu

The ’Trick Art Museum' is a kind of an amusement park. You can enjoy walking around here and there, looking paintings, finding out tricks and taking pictures.

Breakfast and Midnight Noodle Soup

 

Every dish was elaborately wrapped with thin plastic film or capped with a plastic lid.

Hotel lodgers had to wear plastic gloves while taking dishes from food counters back to each table.

It seemed to be against the environmental protection movement.

But the ways of eating food at a hotel were well considered to avoid COVID-19 or at least to reduce risks of infection the disease.

The hotel served Chinese noodle soup to lodgers who wanted it at midnight.

I Have Dinner at a Nasu Resort Hotel

 

Delicious dinner with as much alcohol as I could drink, hot spring bath, wonderful furniture, beautiful natural environment,, and else.

I could not be satisfied more at the hotel stay.

I Go to Nasu Resort Hotel

My wife and I stayed in a local hotel for one night the other day.

The name of the hotel is "Wellness Forest Nasu": it located just next to golf courses.

The hotel had European as well as Balinese-style rooms furnished with corresponding antique furniture.

The local government, Tochigi Prefecture subsidized us ten thousands yen for one night hotel stay.

The subsidy was aiming at helping traveling businesses which were in the recession hit by covid-19.

Every Alpaca Has Its Name

Some of them seemed smiling, thinking, eating or sleeping.

To my surprise, the face of all alpaca were very different each other. Don't you think so?