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New Year’s Day

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As usual we visited the nearby shrine on the first day of the new year. And as usual we bought tigers for Coco, Chie and me 🙂


Coco and three tigers.

Every day during the New Year’s holiday we’ve had nothing but blue skies. Coco and I have taken advantage of it by taking walks. Sometimes a couple of times a day. Afterwards Coco has been exhausted so he has slept a lot. If he gets a chance he will jump up and sleep on the shoulder of Chie or me when we sit in the reclining chair. You can’t do nothing but love it 🙂


Fur coat?

After the New Year Eve’s dinner we have eaten Japanese preserved food, which is an old tradition. The reason is that traditionally Japan closes down for about 4 days during New Year. Also, it enabled the housewives to actually get some days off from cooking.


Japanese preserved food.

At the end of the 2nd day of the new year we went back to Tokyo. It was quite nice to get home again.

Returning from Kuki

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Though we were on vacation we woke up early to watch football, Eagles at Raiders. We even had a wonderful breakfast in the middle of the game, brought the phone with us so we could keep on watching. Unfortunately it turned out that the breakfast was much more wonderful than the game. We lost 🙁

After breakfast it was time for a short walk again. We walked into Esashi again and enjoyed the old style buildings.Before returning to the Kuki ryokan and another hot bath we also went to the harbour. Quite some bad weather was approaching so we hurried up and returned to Kuki before it started raining.


Boat in bad weather

We checked out at noon and returned to the airport. And returned to Tokyo.

Exploring Esashi

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We started the day with a walk around the Kamome (seagull) island just outside of Esashi. We had time to do a short walk in old Esashi too before we had a wonderful breakfast.


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The rest of the day was just for relaxing. Moving back and forth between the living room and the hot tub (onsen). Quite nice.

Before another 10 course dinner we had a walk again. This time we went directly to old Esashi. The town have tried to keep the old style and managed quite well.


Esashi house

After dinner we continued to relax. I had another couple of dips in the hot tub. Soothing.

Going to Hokkaido

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Woke up at 5 am. All according to our plan. We were going to Hokkaido. Or more accurately to Hakodate in Hokkaido, and then to Esashi.

Once we arrived in Hakodate we got our rental car and drove to Goryokan, a star-shaped castle built after the castles in Europe. We had a nice view from a the tower and afterwards a nice close look when walking through the it.


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Once we were done in Hakodate we drove along the coastline to Esashi and our ryokan, Kuki. The ride was beautiful and so was Kuki.


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