To Vanessa

Hello! I checked about your questions.
At first, the recipe is right!! Sho-chu need for sterilization of Ume. And it can sterilize of a container. Sho-chu makes good "Umeboshi".

Secondly, I checked abouto "Nagatoro" too.
You can swim in Nagatoro.
I recommend!
Nagatoro's river is very beautiful.
But I can't explain about Nagatoro.
So I will take a paper about there at next lesson.

See you later!

明月院

We went to the ajisai temple in Kamakura this weekend. Ajisai in English is 'hydrangea'.

Thanks for the information Ayumi!

More photos here...

Iiyama

Iiyama was fantastic! It was really beautiful with cherry trees and the weather was good. It didnt rain all day. =) the doll worked!

Motoyu ryokan

Thank you for your information, vanessa.
I made a reservation for Yuagaribijin course for 7,300yen!

As you can go there at 11am, You are lucky!
Because the hotel man pick you up from Honatsugi station to motoyu ryokan by bus for free.
So, please wait in front of a Ito building (第一伊藤ビル) at 10:40.
The way to the ito building as follows.
You get off at Honatsugi station (Odakyu line) and go to south exit,
and you can see a Risona bank(りそな銀行, That it green sign) at the front.
and you go to the right in fornt of the Risona bank to second traffic right.
The Ito building is at the corner of the second traffic right.
Could you understand the above explanation?
It is difficult for me to explain the location of Ito building. I'm sorry.
I coudn't find a map of the Ito building so please see the map of the risonabank as reference.
http://www.mapion.co.jp/c/f?uc=4&grp=resona&ino=BA472795

The hotel man will see you off to the Honatsugi station by bus.
So please leave your private room before 3pm and go to the front.

I hope you and your parents have a good time at Iiyama onsen!

Wow!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful information about restaurants and Odawara castle. You are all wonderful ladies. I am a lucky teacher!

Today, we went to Chidorigafuchi, Happo-en, and Korakuen (to ride the Big-O and to get massage). =)

(How was your massage on Thursday, Miho?)

Haruka, thank you for getting all that information! I think the best idea is the Yuagaribijin course for 7,300yen. (Because I want to see my parents wear a yukatta. heehee.) We can arrive at 11am.

Our names are:

Vanessa Howell
Paula Howell (mama)
Warren Howell (papa)

My phone number is 090-6119-9459.

Is this enough information?

Good morning!

Hallo!

I asked the Iiyama onsen of the time.
If you can go to Iiyama onsen at 11pm, You can use the corse for 4 hours (untill 3pm).
But you want to go there at 1pm, You can use it for 3 hours (untill 4pm).

I think that it is enough to have a good time to eat lunch and take baths for 3 hours.

Also, please tell me your first name!
I'm sorry I forgot・・・.

This is first time of my posting in this year. Unbelievable!

Vanessa’s mam & dad, welcome to Japan!
I hope you have good time in Japan.

Thank you for your quick response, Haruka.
Instead, I research recommendable sight near Iiyama onsen.
At Odawara station, next station of Honatsugi, there is Odawara castle.
The cherry blossom festa is held now in Odawara castle park.
So, after visiting a spring, you can see the light up the cherry blossoms, maybe.
But, the cherry blossoms of Odawara castle park are in full bloom today!
That is why I said ‘maybe’.
But, I think the carpet of cherry blossoms is also beautiful!
Odawara castle is about ten minutes walk from Odawara station.
If you're so inclined, how about the sightseeing of Odawara?

About Iiyama onsen

Hello! I'm glad to hear that your parents arrived safely.
I checked a homepage of Iiyama Onsen, the hotel's name is Motoyu ryokan (元湯旅館）, in internet.
There are courses at day time that you can chose as follows.

1. Yuagaribijin Delax course 9,500 yen
a seasonal lunch and public baths with Yukata, bath towel and towel

2.Yuagaribijin course 7,300yen
a seasonal lunch and public baths with Yukata, bath towel and towel

3.Yuttarikaiseki course
A course : 11,550yen
B course : 9,240yen
C course: 6,930yen
a seasonal lunch and public baths with towel (no Yukata)

I think the difference of the corse is lunch.
The lunch become better as the price more expencive.

You can use a guest room and eat lunch with your parents at the guest room whichever you choose any course.
The guest room is private room so you can eat just you and your parents.

All courses are you can use a guest room and baths at 11am ~ 14pm or 15pm.
But, When I went to there with ayumi before, I arrived at 16pm. So, if you want to arrived at 1:00pm, I will call the Motoyu ryokan to ask a hotel man that you can use a guest room an baths at 1pm to 4pm or 5pm.
When I went to Motoyu ryokan with ayomi before, I took C course of Yuttarikaiseki course.
It was so nice!

The spring quality of onsen is strong alkali. That is very good to skin.
The water makes your skin smooth!

Please tell me which course you like, and I will make a reservation!

http://www.motoyu.co.jp/index.html is a homepage of Motoyu ryokan.

Iiyama onsen

Hello! My parents arrived safely, and we just ate some yakiniku in koenji.

Can you help us make a reservation at Iiyama Onsen for next Friday, the 7th? We want to arrive at 1pm, and will just use the public baths. Then we will eat lunch at the onsen!

There will be 3 of us. Me, my mom, and my dad.

Will we all 3 be able to eat together?

Thank you for your help!

love,
Vanessa

Snow Wedding

I went to my friend' wedding party on January 21, 2006.
It was snow and very cold day, but I went to Shibuya to attend to the party.
It took about 2 hours from my house to Shibuya.
The bride and bridegroom are my friends in my college days.
He works in JAL that is Japanese air line. and he is a pilot.
His friends are almost pilots, so many pilots came to the party.
His friend who is a pilot said him an interesting congratulations,
" I am very happy to have been friends with him, because I didn't have to
fly with a plane in the snow sky."