I went to Bandai Atami hot springs in Fukushima prefecture from July 12th to 14th with my wife.
We took this trip to celebrate my wife’s birthday.
July 12, 2017
We started out from my house at 10:00 in the morning.
We took the bullet train from Tokyo Station to Koriyama and there we transferred to the Ban-etsu-sai Line.
We arrived at Bandai Atami station at 2:08 in the afternoon.
After that we walked in a forest to the Hana-no-yu Hotel.
We arrived at the hotel at 3:00 in the afternoon.
It was very hot and humid so we broke into a heavy sweat.
We took a bath in the hot spring and drank cold beer and we had a happy day.
July 13, 2017
We went to Inawashiro, the next stop from Bandai Atami St., by rapid-transit train.
My grandmother grew up here.
Inawashiro Station.
It had been about 40 years since I visited her house.
My father's cousin family lives there now.
Unfortunately, when we visited the house my relatives were out.
I entrusted my memo and souvenir to the neighbor.
After that we went to Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum and the Lake Inawashiro by taxi.
Hideyo noguchi Memorial Museum.
Noguchi is known for his research on yellow fever in South America and Africa and he also died of yellow fever.
His tombstone in New York is inscribed with the words.
" Through devotion to science
He lived and died for humanity".
His bust is in his Memorial Museum.
He said, “Honesty is the best policy.”.
He picture is on the 1,000 yen bill.
Lake Inawashiro.
Lake Inawashiro is the fourth largest in Japan.
We took a pleasure boat called Hakucho Maru.
There were only three passengers aboard the boat including my wife and I.
The ship traveled around the lake for about 40 minutes.
After that we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant in front of the lake.
Then we returned to the hotel.
July 14, 2017
We left the Hotel at 10:30 in the morning and we arrived at Tokyo Station at 12:48 in the afternoon.
That’s it.