The 1st day

The Yamaguchi Ube airport

11:00 Nagato Yumoto hot spring district

The "OSOTO heaven" where a ramble has the abundant contents which can be enjoyed

Yamaguchi is one in an outstanding hot spring village, and an inn which is built along Otozuregawa and equals and a store give the town feelings of the hot water off. hot spring district remodels it by a project of area folklore and public cooperation in recent years. The try which can enjoy walk is much with the theme of "OSOTO heaven".
That I walk "stairs in" bamboo plantation hundreds of bamboos equal from Parking in hot spring district, immediateness, "kindness hot water square". A lawn is spread and is the open space which was also equipped with a table and a bench. How to enjoy oneself Otozuregawa a flow is gentle for the stepping stone which can migrate to the riverbed terrace and the opposite shore arranged in the surface of a river, and who is a bank. There are many benches on a wide sidewalk in a riverside, and it's convenient for a rest and trying out the food at various restaurants.

11:30 Kindness hot water.

A start of travel is from the efficacious hot spring with which a legend of "hot water from kamiju" gasps.

Hot spring in the Yamaguchi oldest with history in approximately 600. Because Joan reverend of a famous temple of Soto Zen Buddhism and daineitera found it by an oracle of Sumiyoshi great gracious god, it's the dropping hot water you have enjoyed as "hot water from kamiju". It was remodeled to a modern building built with one-storied house in 2020.
The source from which I have just sprung in its being marvellous to flow from the back bedrock of a bathtub. A source also begins to spring from the bottom of a bathtub, and without touching air, kindness hot water is to a bathtub because a source is built on the place which springs. It's designed with the size which fits the volume of hot water so that the size also hangs a source and to enjoy oneself at a sink. It's the hot water 39 times of source temperature applies, so it can be flooded slowly, and is in a blunder blunder from a core of a body. It can be satisfied with luxurious bathing of the hot spring origin which enjoys good hot water simply.

12:30 Chicken Skewers Cherry tree cafeteria.

By Nagato Yakitori (Skewered chicken) using "Nagasu DORI", lunch

Nagato called "town of a grilled chicken". Cherry tree cafeteria is the few Yakitori (Skewered chicken) store where lunch business is performed. The taste of the direct transmission a skewer strikes fresh home-grown "Nagasu DORI" every morning, and which is baked up politely by charcoal is a nonesuch. Set Meal of lunch limitation "cherry tree rice", in 3 of Yakitori (Skewered chicken), sashimi, Chilled Tofu and a small bowl are the number of articles abundance. Local fresh sashimi is juicy and goes well with a grilled chicken rich in the flavor well in Steamed Rice made in a prefecture, and chopsticks are fact guaranteeing which doesn't stop any more.

13:45 Tidings hall.

To the "watch stand in" the town where thing information on Nagato is collected.

"Stairs in" bamboo plantation which lead to Parking in hot spring district from Otozuregawa after lunch, ramble. It's the "watch stand in" the town where a tourist information is also performed to pause aside of the stairs at the gift place where a renovation did an old private house in chiku more than 50. RETORO is pretty in the showcase of tile sticking which imagined the bath, original products. Nagato Yumoto hot spring, towels with a logo in a tidings hall and the various articles SAKOSSHU feels like using for walk equal.
It's a work of local Traditional Pottery "Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln" that it's exhibited in a gallery of establishing as an annex. Potteries of Hagi is Traditional Pottery by which Yamaguchi-ken loved in cha-no-yu from the old days takes pride. A valuable work of the Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln opened as an order kiln of a bush clover feudal clan can be appreciated slowly.

14:15 cafe&pottery sound

I love the capacity of the Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln and take a rest by a table on the terrace.

To a cafe and a gallery in the letter riverside where the way of the walk and an old private house in chiku 50 were remodeled. It's a work of Traditional Pottery in an area "Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln" to color in the store. A work for the author of the young people who carries the future of a kiln with history in about 360 is being exhibited and sold. The theme of a work is of primary concern, "daily container". Daily living such as a coffee cup and a dish has complete set of brilliant container.
Recommendation on the cafe menu is a homemade cake. 2-3 kinds is thick and always equal in aromatic "terrine chocolate", "gorgonzola cheese cheesecake" and "seasonal tart" etc. daily with the ingredients in season. The cafe menu is offered by the capacity of the permanent author. An encounter with the work with the abundant individuality is also pleasant.

15:00 Hoshino Resorts KAI Nagato

The elegance which is samurai culture at the inn where "seigneur's restaurant residence" was imagined, Experience.

A theme in the inn where I pause on the foot in Akebonobashi which spans Otozuregawa is the restaurant residence a seigneur spent in the Edo Period. Traditional Pottery of "Potteries of Hagi" and "Tokuji Japanese paper" etc. is dressed in inside of the building, and Experience of rare traditional culture using "Akama inkstone" is also a topic. It's present-day new elegance to meet the person who visits the efficacious hot spring called "hot water from kamiju" and local stockbroker's mountain seafoods. It juxtaposes the "dawn cafe" where it can also be used besides the guest and is equipped with the "dawn gate" where you can go out to hot spring district casually from an inn.

KAI Signature Rooms "between Nagato five color scheme Japanese room"

16:30 KAI Cultural Discovery

A heart knows deep culture in Yamaguchi-ken, and is also complete, "adult ink play"

In "KAI Cultural Discovery" which touches charm in all part area, Experience, for, "adult ink play". Ink is ground by Traditional Pottery of Yamaguchi "Akama inkstone", the character is written in Japanese paper of the fan type and a picture is drawn. A particle is small for the ink done by Akama inkstone, and good of the coloring and the growth is also special. You can be healed by the feeling and the fragrance which do ink and have a brush play in a concerned condition.

17:30 Dinner.

In "tile baking KAI Local Flavors" which tastes Yamaguchi's delicacy, gusto

The treasure house Yamaguchi-ken where fresh seafood is fried through four seasons circles three sides in a sea and where it are gourmet meals. The strong squid which are sweets fleshily, the material which is season for an appetizer, I'd like to resuscitate, rather, a beautiful dish is also appearing on a tongue one after another. The tub which chooses a prefecture as the only tub craftsman and a novel work using the capacity of the Potteries of Hagi are also outstanding in impact for "Horaku prime" at the inside. Then the "tile baking" of which I thought from local cuisine in a prefecture and near the tile can enjoy how to eat Hoshino Resorts KAI Nagato which prints off and tastes blowfish on the tile.

20:00 hot spring district at night.

By a light up, night is also a fun ramble.

After enjoying dinner, it's to hot spring district walk at night with the paper lantern put in the dawn gate in one hand. Everywhere such as 6 bridges which span a river and "stairs in" bamboo plantation wrap itself up in the fantastic light, the hot spring feelings are much. The photo spot for which the "stairs in" bamboo plantation lit up by the soft light of a paper-covered lamp in particular are ideal. I also warm to an angle search in different taste with noon.
The "stairs of" colored leaves where the one which can't be overlooked in autumn ties a restaurant street and hot spring district. The views from which the maple which colored in red emerges in darkness at night are highlights. An event is also held according to the best time. I bustle with the people who enjoy night of Nagato and colored leaves. When it'll be sunset by automatic control, a light up lights up. The production which was added to the natural light in the season, considering is also put into effect.

20:15 365+1BEER (SANROKUROKUHI RU)

Night time luxurious for craft beer just made.

It's only takeout of Bottled Beer on weekdays at a brewery of craft beer in the first Nagato city, but "TAPROOM" which had a counter is open on Friday and Saturday. When timing fits, it's the spot I'd like to visit according to the light up in hot spring district. The one by which a building for chiku about 60 years was a pharmacy formerly. An sales section of a cigarette and the photogenic furnishing to which neon of the previous kindness hot water was introduced are also a topic.
Peer ale, IPA and Jan Bell white always line up 4-6 kinds for proud beer. "SANROKUROKUPERUERU" is the fruity fragrance, and a cheek loosens unconsciously in the moderate bitterness and good over the throat. How about spending some time of night for the beer best born from the brew which is without compromise?

21:00 Public hot spring

Fatigue on the 1st is reset for hot water from source run sink.

A bath in Public hot spring can be divided into "applied hot water" and "ATSU hot water" and be satisfied with Nagato Yumoto hot spring called "hot water from kamiju" by a source run sink by applied hot water. The body matches hot water from alkaline simple hot spring of pH9.9, and, texture like skin lotion. I'll heal fatigue in the first day by hot water of a clear skin and a famous efficacious hot spring.

The 2nd day

07:00 Riverbed terrace.

River breeze is refreshing at a comfortable terrace, stretch

To the "riverbed terrace" where I crossed Akebonobashi in front of the inn in the next morning and equipped the surface of a river. A this place exercise "I swing to HO in an ABC." is the stretch which writes the character by an image with a big brush. The whole body is used fully, and, "in an ABC, to HO", muscle gets loose by writing it, and a body becomes warm.

07:30 Breakfast.

The this place breakfast which satisfies hunger after movement

The Japanese food table by which seafoods were incorporated into breakfast much. Dirt tree, squid steamed meat dumpling and grilled fish in season rich in a stickiness and the firmness are the palate with the abundant area color, variously, Steamed Rice is developed.

09:00 daineitera (would, NEIJI).

A quiet hot spring district in the morning and an old approach to Shrine are walked.

A famous temple and daineitera of Soto Zen Buddhism which became a stage in hot spring kaiyu are even walked after breakfast. "It's sucked from a nose and it's thrown up from the mouth." rhythm is conscious and it's often to walk by its legs wide apart, and I aim at lung function and the immunity power rise. When I'm advancing a course map towards a hand, a Jizo is enshrined here and there in an old approach to Shrine. It's healed by a gentle face.

10:30 Dawn cafe.

A Hoshino Resorts KAI Nagato original pancake stuffed with bean jam and special cafe latte, takeout

Then "dawn cafe" of inn establishing as an annex sells the pancake stuffed with bean jam baked up politely one by one. It's outstanding in the fabric and the chemistry of the sweetness for which "Yuzu citrus Kichi" is easy by the refreshing flavor by which Sand made the Sweet White Bean Paste honey boiling of a citrus of the Yamaguchi original "Yuzu citrus Kichi". "Special cafe latte" which goes well with a pancake stuffed with bean jam well is also recommended.

10:45 Riverbed terrace.

At a riverbed terrace following the surface of a river, snack time

"Riverbed terrace" where one it faces with the pancake stuffed with bean jam and the drink in the hand protrudes in the surface of a river. Enough space is waiting for the feeling of opening through which refreshing river breeze blows. I'll spend graceful time at the special seat where I look at Otozuregawa's pretty view in each season.

12:00 Hoshino Resorts KAI Nagato is left.

12:30 Near the tile Willow shop.

Soul music food in Yamaguchi-ken where the lunch is full of emotions of the traveler

Compound Property where a renovation did the wooden apartment where "I was here, row house" is chiku more than 70 years in the opposite side of a river in an inn. Yamaguchi local specialty and specialty store near the tile put up a flag of "willow shop" on the 1st floor. The local cuisine which loads near the tile down with fried egg cut like thread, beef and a topping of leek in the Green Tea Soba Noodles which was heaped on a heated tile and receives by the warm rainy season. It's voiced instinctively in visual outstanding in the impact on which I appeared as well as the tone as JU. "Willow shop" then, egg made in a prefecture and the ingredients leek made in Nagato city selected carefully are used. Special soup is the proud taste completed according to the Green Tea Soba Noodles rich in the flavor and the fragrance. When plump soba is eaten and it's advanced, the part where I touched a tile is burned and crisp. The difference in the food texture is also the delicious taste near the tile.

13:15 cafe and shop Tre (TURE)

Some time which is calming down at the cafe where something good and something pleasant were arranged in order

I go up stairs after lunch, and it's on the 2nd floor. The cafe shop where products of owner selection are famous meets the person who visits. Interior adds the hard material to mortar and stainless steel, leaving original soil wall and pillar. Space with the warmth spreads though it's the sophisticated aim. It's the landscape of the Otozuregawa's four seasons outside the window. When relaxing by a Moroccan chair and a couch sofa, they seem to forget time.
The "cheesecake" a sign cake reaches from a popular bakery of Fukuoka "IMUSTAN". Like added Sea salt. Sweetness of cheese and the flavor can stand out and also enjoy the crisp food texture of the salt. A care product of skin care and a fragrance is also attention in a central selection appropriate for hot spring place.

14:15 Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln Toubee Tahara atelier.

The container search by which a heart is attracted at a pottery of a Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln

The pottery where it's local Traditional Pottery "Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln" to want to go by all means by travel in Nagato city. Potteries of Hagi was being called "Ichiraku, two bush clovers and three Karatsu" and loved by a master of ceremonial tea from the old days. A Potteries of Hagi Fukagawa kiln is present Nagato city Fukagawa Yumoto Sannose as an order kiln of a bush clover feudal clan in 1657 (1657), kaikama. History in about 360 is piled up and 5 potteries are emitting kiln smoke at present.
Then one Toubee "Tahara atelier" in a pottery invents a work rich in originality, defending tradition mainly by contemporary thirteen generation Toubee. Tea soaks, and the texture changes from the crack with the small surface (penetration) so that the water absorption uses Potteries of Hagi for a long time highly. I'll be called "seven change in a bush clover" and increase the aim. It's the gem I'd like to use habitually lengthily for the memory of the travel.

15:00 Road station The Sen kitchen.

Nagato city "is good", for a gift.

Exchange base Property in Nagato city spread in a beach in a port town and Senzaki. It's to the extent a place sold directly has complete set of favor abundant in Nagato city from local vegetables in season and dish to an artifact including landed fresh fish at neighboring seas, and I waver in gift election. The goods using "Nagato Yuzu citrus Kichi" by which popularity is Nagato city specialty. Season is autumn, but a year-round line and sweets of Jell-O and gelato are also a hot seller for an artifact of juice and bitter orange juice.
To the barbecue section which can bake and taste the ingredients bought at a place sold directly by itself if I think "I'd like to try fresh seafoods and mountain products at the place!", (the linchpin cover charge). There are other Dining Area, Tourist Information Center and "Nagato toy museum of art" etc., it's multipurpose, it can be used.