wake.eat.sleep

Although I didn't wake up to the best looking weather:

That's nothing that wasn't solved by my third and final trip to the onsen! Once I came back, I was ready for my scheduled breakfast.

Previous posts in this series:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Here's a short video in case you'd rather not look at still pictures again:

And another short video after everything has been heated up, and ready to eat:

(In case you're wondering, the futon is put away for you as part of the breakfast setup.)

The food was pretty traditional Japanese breakfast food.

Rice:

...which can be combined with the nori (seaweed) in this package

...in this fashion

Tofu:

Fish:

Veggies:

* The red round ball in this picture is umeboshi. A pickled plum that a lot of people like at the end of a meal, but I never really warmed up to. I tried it again, and I still didn't acquire a taste for it.

Clam miso soup:

Other than the umeboshi, the rest of breakfast didn't stand a chance.

I spent a little bit of time watching Koshien on TV. Twice a year there is a nationwide high school baseball tournament. Countless mangas, animes and television shows have used this as a theme or objective for their protagonists, and likely a century from now we will still be making a similar proclamation.

And a little time enjoying the quiet mountains in the distance.

Well, that's it for now. Enjoy the photo set. I'll wrap up Day 11 in a separate post.

-- Onsen and Ryokan end --