Day Nine

Started the day by visiting the Kanazawa Castle and park.

Parked the car right next to my namesake café

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The castle was basically just your regular Japanese Castle, seen one seen em all

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But they did have some interesting exhibits on how the traditional construction methods worked.

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The park was pretty nice. This fountain is powered by natural height differential and doesn't run on any kind of power.

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We then drove straight to our hotel for the final night, on which we splurged 13,000 yen each - it was a fancy onsen hotel in Matsumoto.

Now that we were in rural Gifu/Nagano mountain roads (no highways here), there were no services, and we went 2 hours without even seeing a convenience store. So when this 7-11 showed up just before Matsumoto we were relieved and quickly ate all of the snacks.

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I... don't know.

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View from our hotel

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On a quick beer/snacks run into a supermarket we passed this computer store which had an old Mac Performa 520 outside. *nostalgia*

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The Hotel was all-inclusive with a 50-course Japanese-style dinner. Had trouble with the menu so I had to send this photo to Maki and have her type it down for me so I knew in which order to eat half the stuff!

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Lots of moving parts

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Like a vegetable steamer powered by a chemical heater

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And a grill plate for yakiniku

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After dinner we retired into the onsen part, soaked for an hour or so, and I had a foot massage

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