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hakone the most beautiful hot spring township in Japan

When you come to Japan, you aren’t going to bathe in a hot spring, that’s really a pity!

Hakone in south-western Kanagawa is Japan’s famed hot spring township and health resort. This area is about 90 kilometers from Tokyo. Evidently more than four hundreds of thousands of years ago, nearby Hakone used to be the crater, now here situated at the foot of the picturesque peaks, ravine stream trickle, charming scenery. Shimmering Lake Ashinoko is the volcanic lake, the total area of the lake is 7 square kilometres, the deepest is about 45 meters, the lake water is blue and clear. The tourists take a boat trip on a sunny day, and they can see the perennially snow-covered Fuji Mountain, Fuji Mountain is mirrored in baby blue lake water. Owakudani Valley is volcanic relics for two thousand years, the white smoke from the hillside curle upward all the day, Owakudani Valley is also one of the wonderful scene of Hakone.

I have been to Japan some times, Hakone may be the most memorable place. There are hard-boiled Black Eggs in the 3000-year old volcanic hotsprings, there are the famous “the seven soup”, this is regarded as seven hot spring resorts, in addition to the “Hakone Pali” and early cloud temple, thousand waterfalls, fairy, nine dragons and other attractions. Sitting on the trolley and cable car, the tourists can watch the winding valleys and beautiful views of lakes.

Well, today let us begin our journey in Hakone.

Hakone, if the weather is fine, the tourists have a great view of Fuji Mountain.

All kinds of stores, store of goods is dazzling, let a person too many things to see, it’s all here.

Japanese seafoods are very fresh, when our companion buy, the merchant donates many seafoods and smiles at us.

Hotel Yoshiike is merely a Spa Hotel in Hakone.

We have lunch here, sitting by the window, watching the beautiful scenery out of the window and enjoying good food.

Various kinds of tasty Japanese cuisine.

We take a pirate ship excursion on Lake Ashinoko, various kinds of three-dimensional images make the visitors pleasantly surprised!

My dinner is a cup of fine rice wine, and I become intoxicated.

I like the hot springs in Hakone. Day or night, indoor or outdoor, if you have the time and good mood, you are free to go to the hot spring.

After a light rain, the light fog shrouds Mount Fuji in the distance, breathing the fresh air after the rain and enjoying Japanese breakfast is quite an experience.

Some people say autumn is a season of quiet, people will have more peace; some people say autumn is the love season, there is poetic and picturesque; and some people say autumn is a season for missing, we just don’t know it.

The bicycle museum and the traditional handicraft industry pavilion in Sakai

Sakai lies to the south-central Osaka, it is Osaka’s the second biggest city in area and population. since the Stone Age, the Japanese had lived in Sakai, so there is the world’s largest acreage Emperor Nintoku mausoleum;  there are many temples and shrines stemming from history, there are tea culture, artisanal knives, bicycle and other traditional industries. We spend a half day go to the traditional handicraft industry pavilion and the bicycle museum.

The bicycle museum in Sakai divides the history of bicycle into five eras, from the world’s oldest wooden bike to the latest Olympic bicycle and so on. In the bicycle experience area, the tourists can touch brakes, gearboxes  and so on, they will learn more structure and principle of bicycle while playing at the bicycle museum. The bicycle square in Daisen Park provide a regular opportunity of test-driving classical bicycle copies for tourists.

There is a earliest bike model at the gate of the park, tourists pose for photographs on the bike.

Bicycle derives its origin from Europe, but now China has the most bicycles. What about Japan, Japan has a handsome lead in manufacturing bicyles, many famous bicycle brands come out of Japan.

The old tandem bicycle is also quite interesting.

The bicycle may be close to the ancestor of the modern bicycle.

Tandem bicycle.

The bicycle delivering milk.

The elongated bicycle.

Modern variable-speed bicycle.

Mountain bicycle.

These are famous brands bicycles.

After visiting the bicycle museum, the children draw all kinds of bicycle paintings, the children’s paintings are beautiful.

There are a good many books about the bicycle subject in the reading room, people can look up information here.

Here are 50 bicycles, to witness the history of bicycle development.

The traditional handicraft industry pavilion in Sakai mainly exhibits Sakai’s handmade knife manufacturing history. Sakai account for 90 percent of Japan’s total kitchen knife output. The traditional handicraft industry pavilion shows the craftsmen’s ingenious knife world, and the tourists also will practice and experience at the scene of the exhibition.

Look at this huge scissor.

Japan’s knife has become more and more specialized, using different knives to perform different ingredients processing on a chopping board, each knife is fine made.

This is the evolution of a kind of knife.

There are some souvenirs in the pavilion, all souvenirs are exquisite.

Handwork and fruit are well-known in Sakai. These really fine shapes, I am reluctant to have it.

The beautiful cloth-wallets.

The elegant handkerchiefs.

Tokyo: the most popular Beer Museum

Yebisu lies in Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district. Yebisu, in Japanese means, loosely translated, the god of wealth. Here was also equal to the countryside during the Edo Period (1603-1867), and then Yebisu brewery was built in 1889. Yebisu brewery was built in imitation of a German architecture at that time, and all production equipment also imported from Germany. Since the birth of Yebisu brewery, this area person was enraged gradually exuberant.

Today Yebisu is also a fashionable area in Tokyo, the former site of Yebisu brewery has been converted into Yebisu Garden Plaza, where is full of business atmosphere. Grand hotels, department stores, cinemas, assembly halls and so on, from soup to nuts, so Yebisu Garden Plaza is usually used as a filming site. The day we went happened to be the afternoon, Yebisu looked much more charming in the brilliant light.

Our aim was to visit Yebisu Beer Museum. The museum was founded by Yebisu brewing company. Described is the development history of Yebisu beer.

It’s just a giant beer brewing jar model.

The giant beer jar model is all made of a lot of small beer jar, it is spectacular.

These are some clay sculptures, which is a symbol of God in the traditional Japanese folk customs. Yebisu is the god of wealth.

Entering the museum hall, because without Chinese speaking guide, we took a look at the exhibits on display at the museum, some of the exhibits was very well done. This is a jar used for keeping beer fresh long ago, it is so cute.

A variety of beer packaging.

Some appetizers with liquor are also very lifelike.

A plate of shrimps and a plate of pickles can scarcely be distinguished from real side dish.

Beer packaging, using a wooden box.

Beside the beer bottle is a bottle opener, perhaps that time beer bottle tops are made from cork.

Beer cask.

There  are also souvenirs, the wheat pattern mean beer being made out of malt, there is another wine jar pattern.

The beer bottle looks nice, from my view, I consider it is more beautiful than the beer bottle being used.

To better propaganda and extend Yebisu beer, the comic book is used. Yebisu beer matching German sausage is also a very popular drink method.

Vegetables and beer model look quite appetizing.

This picture is special, the women portrayed in the painting are not like Japanese women, they are just like Chinese women.

After visiting the museum, visitors are able to enjoy drinking the beer here, this is a special tasting area, every tourist can drink two cups of beer, although the beer is free, but having bought that ticket, so it is not free.

The narrator showed us how to pour a beer, she was professional for us. Listening to some knowledge introduction of drinking beer, do you know what is the best combination when drinking beer? Three kinds of food selected by people in Japan are Bean fruit, Sausage and chips.

This is real beers, dark beers, more natural, very refreshing, it’s very tasty.

Alongside tasting area, there is a restaurant to eat and have a drink.

This is a souvenir shop selling some snack foods with liquor.