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Long day out
By the time I finished work yesterday, my whole back started to hurt.
Got up rather early this morning (well 8:30 as opposed to 9:30 or 10:00...) I guess we'd gone to bed rather early last night. I woke up in pain; the kind that reminds you how much your muscles are not used to being exercised so much.
I decided that an onsen trip would be just the thing to treat my body after all the hard work I put it through.
We rode out to the station in a light drizzle, I caught the 10:30 bus (that came at 10:40) bound for the Iwasaki Hotel in Kirishima, while Paul caught the 10:39 train out to Kagoshima for some event thing happening out that way.
By the time I was up in Kirishima, it was pouring down, good thing it eased up a little when I got to the stop for the Kirishima Kokusai Hotel. The entry for the onsen at the hotel was 1000 yen but I had those half-price coupon things. I was going to go there with Marci and have the buffet lunch there too, but she bailed so I went by myself just for the onsen.
I got the bus times mixed up so I left the onsen too late for the 1:37 bus back out to Kokubu, and way too early for the next bus which was at 2:58. So I bought an umbrella and walked a few bus stops down. It was an almost-hour-long bus ride to Kokubu station, fortunately there was a training waiting for me when I got off the bus. Then out to Kagoshima Chuo I went.
I was getting cold so I bought this hooded long jumper and put it on before walking some more to meet Paul. We then walked yet some more to the Tenmonkan area to have ramen at a place called 我流風 (Garufu). I had the one with the egg and Paul had the one under it. They were both pretty nice. Our soups are supposedly the same but somehow mine tasted a bit harsher, hence I didn't like it as much. The meat was awesome though.
I'm now very tired and sleepy, Paul's already gone to bed. I'm going to follow suit.
Got up rather early this morning (well 8:30 as opposed to 9:30 or 10:00...) I guess we'd gone to bed rather early last night. I woke up in pain; the kind that reminds you how much your muscles are not used to being exercised so much.
I decided that an onsen trip would be just the thing to treat my body after all the hard work I put it through.
We rode out to the station in a light drizzle, I caught the 10:30 bus (that came at 10:40) bound for the Iwasaki Hotel in Kirishima, while Paul caught the 10:39 train out to Kagoshima for some event thing happening out that way.
By the time I was up in Kirishima, it was pouring down, good thing it eased up a little when I got to the stop for the Kirishima Kokusai Hotel. The entry for the onsen at the hotel was 1000 yen but I had those half-price coupon things. I was going to go there with Marci and have the buffet lunch there too, but she bailed so I went by myself just for the onsen.
I got the bus times mixed up so I left the onsen too late for the 1:37 bus back out to Kokubu, and way too early for the next bus which was at 2:58. So I bought an umbrella and walked a few bus stops down. It was an almost-hour-long bus ride to Kokubu station, fortunately there was a training waiting for me when I got off the bus. Then out to Kagoshima Chuo I went.
I was getting cold so I bought this hooded long jumper and put it on before walking some more to meet Paul. We then walked yet some more to the Tenmonkan area to have ramen at a place called 我流風 (Garufu). I had the one with the egg and Paul had the one under it. They were both pretty nice. Our soups are supposedly the same but somehow mine tasted a bit harsher, hence I didn't like it as much. The meat was awesome though.
I'm now very tired and sleepy, Paul's already gone to bed. I'm going to follow suit.