Yudanaka

This is the little village where the monkey park is - Yudanaka. We had a lovely dinner in the restaurant; unusually for Japan, I had too much on my plate and the very hospitable chef cum waiter boxed the surplus for me and I had it for my lunch next day. Yum. I took a picture of his wee restaurant.

I also snapped the obligatory Pachinko Hall!

The reruxing (relaxing) space made us chuckle. Japanese/English is at times as hilarious as you think it would be. Kind of like Thai/English for those of you who have been to Thailand.

And the silhouette of the forest scene was of a child's bedroom on the way back to the hotel.

Yudanaka was a nice wee onsen town. The place is full of bath houses and they all use the natural hot springs, kind of like the monkeys. We got the train with a tonne of old women who were all probably going to bathe in the hot baths.

Here's a real life geyser in action.