Countryside

Today we started with a second onsen (hot spring bath) at 7am, then a set Japanese breakfast, before we walked up to the nearby Snow Monkey Park (H and hot-tubbing monkeys in the extra). A quick lunch followed in a cafe on the way down, then a last walk around the local streets, a temple/shrine and shops. This was improved further with some matcha ice cream in the sun under these beautiful blossoming trees. I can't emphasise enough how kind, polite and helpful everyone is here.

Then we got a lift back up to the station and two trains back to Tokyo, the local one of which was a special tourist train with panoramic windows at the ends. We ended up arriving at rush hour but it was only a short walk from the busy station to our hotel.

And so to bed.