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.

Memorial Forest Museum of The Meiji Period

 

I went to the villa of Aoki's family museum or "The Memorial Forest Museum of The Meiji Period" about one month ago.

Buildings built in the Meiji era always look very similar to me, but both inside exhibition and outside appearance looked beautiful surrounded by flowers and the forest of Nasu Shiobara.

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?  

I Go to an Alpaca Ranch

 

I went to an alpaca dude ranch or an alpaca farm for tourists with my wife a couple weeks ago.

They kept over two hundred alpacas in their ranch.

It located in the plains at the foot of Mt. Nasu, to be exact, Sanbonyari Peak at a height of 1,917m.

According to the web site, those alpacas were imported from Andes in southern Peru in 1999.

They were very cute and obedient.

All photos of today's post were taken by my wife, Kiyono using her smartphone.

I Go to Kagoiwa-Onsen Hot Spring Inn

 

The restaurant of the hot spring inn served us two grilled ayu fish seasoned with salt.

They also served a fried fish with grated daikon radish and a ramen noodle soup.

Open-air bath was not as big as I had imagined, but was good enough to enjoy seeing wide opened scenery.