Saturday, May 13, 2006

Early spring trip


original spa building
Originally uploaded by shoko.
It has been almost over a month since I last updated myself. Not because my workload was to hard to write, but I was busy enjoying series of holidays. In the middle of April, when yearly budget planning settled down at last, I decided to visit my friend in Shikoku island. This was my first landing to that area, and after exhausting week, it was fascinating trip set me free from stress.
My friend, she has been living there for a year on business, took me eat famous noodle "Sanuki-Udon", and places of interest. We went to a few spa, one is located in deep ravine, you can see and hear natural river flow next to you, feeling water splash on your face. The other one is famous as the oldest spa in Japan, Dogo spa. Though nowadays it become a tourist attraction, the place is originally local bathhouse that heals people's tirdness. There has some hall for tourist which reminds the place was loved by the old-day sophisticated, at the same time, there are many local people who seems daily enjoying bath time at the spa.
Beside spas, we went to a shrine named "Kompira-san", famous place that you need more than a thousand staires to get to the main building. (It's also known as the place first Kabuki performance was held.) It was high time to see great cherry blossom lines and feel warm and flesh spring breeze. As derives from its name, ("Kom-" means gold in chinese charactor.) I got a golden charm for healty and happy life.

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