Instead of doing the whole train to Odawara, and starting the loop from there, I drove up to meet my old roomie, Hamako. She is a professor in America now. She was attending University of Idaho when I was working there. She came to visit her parents, and made a side trip to come see me.
Looking the other way, there's the steam vents with sulfur vapors way down below the ridges we're suspended from.
The fine print says not to get too close, or the door may open automatically. Base jumping, anyone?
Little Kitty is by one of the black eggs. They cook them in the steam vents here, and rumor is you live an additional 7 years. Eat too many, and in a day you'll smell like you've been dead 7 years. :)
Dwight Turner and Hamako Furuhata-Turner.
I have walked past this place before, but Hamako said, "Oh, it's a music box museum!" Guess reading the language helps.
The museum was small. Cooler was that you could choose the music box, and the song you wanted and put them together there!
Music Box dude and Hamako Turner-Furuhata.
Since we had to go back to pick up the car and luggage, I took the boat to a part of the lake I usually skip. Love these tori gates on the water.
The ships look like pirate ships.
For a fee, you can have your picture taken with a captain.
But they're not so much into pirating their electricity!
Instead of doing the whole train to Odawara, and starting the loop from there, I drove up to meet my old roomie, Hamako. She is a professor in America now. She was attending University of Idaho when I was working there. She came to visit her parents, and made a side trip to come see me. 
Looking the other way, there's the steam vents with sulfur vapors way down below the ridges we're suspended from.
The fine print says not to get too close, or the door may open automatically. Base jumping, anyone?
Little Kitty is by one of the black eggs. They cook them in the steam vents here, and rumor is you live an additional 7 years. Eat too many, and in a day you'll smell like you've been dead 7 years. :)
Dwight Turner and Hamako Furuhata-Turner.
I have walked past this place before, but Hamako said, "Oh, it's a music box museum!" Guess reading the language helps.
The museum was small. Cooler was that you could choose the music box, and the song you wanted and put them together there!
Music Box dude and Hamako Turner-Furuhata. 
Since we had to go back to pick up the car and luggage, I took the boat to a part of the lake I usually skip. Love these tori gates on the water.
The ships look like pirate ships.
For a fee, you can have your picture taken with a captain.
But they're not so much into pirating their electricity!
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