odawara

The sunrise the next morning was beautiful
 

At the buffet, I decided to try all the "western" types of foods...Satoshi tried some of the "Japanese" types

Loved the “make your own” fried mackerel sandwich I chose the shibazuke tartar sauce

Was bummed we couldn't toast our bread though...

Everyone wanted to sit near this window in the main dining area, the sun was blinding, dunno how they enjoyed their meals...

After we checked out, we asked the driver if he could drop us off at Omiya Green Space, a tiny park that is dedicated to the story of Omiya and Kanichi, characters in Ozaki Koyo's book, "Konjiki Yasha"

Just before Omiya and Kanichi are about to get married, Omiya falls for a wealthy man, the scene depicts Kanichi kicking Omiya in anger.

There is a huge pine tree next to the statue of Kanichi kicking Omiya...

We then walked up to the JR Atami station...8 minutes sounded close by and easy enough, but the stairs were straight up!

From Atami it took a little over an hour to get to Odawara.

Satoshi wanted to check out the castle to re-familiarize himself.

I wanted to find the Gundam manhole.

We picked up musubi from Rokuzaemon for the trip home.

I ordered the nori tsukudani

And the okaka (bonito), ginger, takuan...loved this combo!

Would definitely get musubi from this shop again, there was "stuff" in every bite!

(Satoshi had their egg yolk and saba tsukudani musubis.)

It was my first time to Shimoda and Atami, we hope to be back to check out the hydrangea in Shimoda and maybe stay at New Akao again.

I hope you enjoyed this adventure as much as we did.

Rokuzaemon

Minaka Odawara 1F

Odawara, Kanagawa

Hours: 10:00-20:00

ps have a wonderful Christmas (one of the many trees at Hotel New Akao)