On the advice of Lorraine, I decided to leave 别 府 Beppu to spend a day 汤 布 院 Yufuin , a village of 10,000 residents just minutes by bus from the capital onsen, which is also quite likely filled sources. It is a mountain called naturally 由 布岳 Mount Yufu.
Yufuin backed Mount Yufu
After I woke late, I have just enough time to squeeze my bento heated in a microwave oven on the handset to take the 11:37 bus. The bus goes up Yufuin, but on the way, there is a stop at the foot of the mountain: 由 布岳登 山口 Tozanguchi Yufu-dake. My plan then is to get there, climb the 1583 meters and descend on the city take a bath.
Between Yufuin and Beppu, a deserted amusement park, one more
At the foot of the climb
The thing that does not fit into my plan is the weather. One of my keitai provides 80% of rain in the afternoon. It is beyond the 70% upper limit for my go outside without the weather does strike me out, and it is confirmed by the grannies in stockings, who go after a short morning hike, and I say we should not go up and you will see nothing.
Well, looking at me, they were not wrong, it's blocked. But with the slight hope that it does not rain and the top is reached, I attack the climb ...
It is cold, but it does not matter ...
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At 500 m from the start, one is at 853 m altitude
It always rises in the mysterious fog, it has nothing to do with thick green forests of Kyushu and "from below".
Then all sudden snow. It was even less expected, but I keep under a fine rain
then to 1494 m, there is a fork to join the two vertices. The above is the west, so it left
From there, there are only 10-15 minutes, but short. The wind is very powerful.
The small leaves room for easy road channels open in bursts
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Once past that bit, I find myself in a bowl or the gusts would make me almost fall. I'm not helped by my big bag in the back either.
As through the mist, I see that we should climb a ridge to reach the summit, I decided to give up a few dozen meters from the finish, so preserve my life to enjoy the onsen that await me, and that any tempered I deserve enough.
Game over
The path descends to join Yufuin bifurcates directly, and I take it until it evaporates in a cleared area. So I am on the highway not where expected, but in sight of my target.
Yufuin
A field of small lianas solid rogues and I arrive in town, I'm going through in full to the small pond 金鳞 湖 Kirin-ko, a pool warm water fed by the onsen. It is bordered onsen more or less expensive, and one I was looking for is 下ん 湯 Shitan-yu, bathing facilities. I more than 2 times without suspecting that this was ... a small wooden hut right on the quiet lake.
下ん 湯 Shitan-yu
There are 2 bathrooms, interior and exterior, notions, since there is no wall between the two. There is nobody to manage it (surely the premises are clean from time to time with the 200 yen donation), and directly overlooks the pond Kirin-ko, which is one place rather tourism. This shows very well the coaches Korean grannies coming unload their goods violet and take pictures.
The bath "outside", and tourists umbrella
On the other hand, the onsen Shitan-yu is the small thatched roof, next to the Chagall Museum
After soaking saving, I get dressed in clothes still wet, the most horrible thing in the world, out to dry by walking, now that the rain stopped. On the other hand, one sees nothing people naked, pierced the wall of the onsen is a kind of subtle natural dyed window.
Various birds are happy to have their warm onsen giant
I walk to the station, crossing all the little shops of expensive things that make a small destination Yufuin chic for rich people. It is clear that it is much quieter than Beppu, but a little too city-oriented-100%-to-the-tourists for my taste.
The road to the station
I returned by bus to Beppu, trembling with cold, still making me とり 天 Toriten だ ん ご 汁 Dangojiru, local specialties, before reconsidering my plans for the evening. I was thinking of going to sleep next to the onsen secret Hebin-yu, but since I still flickers, I'll flip through magazines combined to find the 駅 前 高等 温泉 Onsen Ekimae Koto, an institution, as its name suggests, just opposite the station, which is 1600 yen the night in a dormitory.
The grannies to entry are not welcoming at all, pretending that I could not read the signs in front of me. Finally I get my cheap mattress in a room with a mattress every two weeks occupied by strange old alone that cause it. The bathrooms are very small, accessible through the basement stairs dangerous when one of the old slides and lies dead for 5 minutes, until the grannies just kick it up. It's not a happy place, but at least I'm dry ...
Since the window 駅 前 高等 温泉 Ekimae Koto Onsen
This day was the day fail the year, but I'm going back the next day Beppu with secret corners of local .
This adventure is an episode of Yakushima hitchhiking trip
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