Posted on May 18, 2011 in Hiroko's Blog

On last Sunday my husband and I decided to engage in a very typical Japanese weekend activity, the hi-gaeri ryoko – the one day round trip (by train, of course) to the countryside for some activity that nearly always involves an interesting meal and a dip in a hot bath at a local onsen (hot spring bath).  So we – along with several thousand other Tokyo-ites – boarded one of the frequent deluxe “Romance Car” trains of the Odakyu Electric Railway bound for the famous Hakone...

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