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Public & Private

There’s a big public bath house where photo taking is not allowed – then, there’s this private hot spring in this room adjacent to the tatami room.

Healthy breakfast of local fruits (berries and melons) and imported fruits (pineapple from Philippines) topping plain locally made yogurt, sprinkled with local raw honey and … KINAKO – soy powder often used in desserts in Japan.

Traditional Japanese Breakfast of Miso soup, sea and land vegetables pickles and seasoned in traditional methods … missing is Natto – the fermented soy beans that disappeared very fast from the buffet table.

More breakfast veggies

Locally dried raisins made from Kyoho grapes + decadence of pastries from locally famed bakery, Asanoya … all petit sizes so you can enjoy the variety – cinnamon danish topped with strawberry, chocolate blueberry toast, and matcha muffin.

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More than 10,000 steps everyday

Many steps everywhere

Summer cottages for the privileged I assume … gardens are so well tended …passing through and taking in the loveliness of forest living.  The air so cleansing, the foggy jet lag heaviness lifts and there’s clarity that returns.  Fresh Air, Good Water and Lush green forests … that’s the Karuizawa I seek, not the shopping outlets Asian tourists swarm to.

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It’s not the heat; it’s the humidity

Having hiked? trekked Grand Canyon to Phantom Ranch in the dead of summer, dazed in summer heat, this temperature is not that crazy … but it’s the humidity.  Feels like 103%, yes, indeed.  It’s exhausting.

Love this TV show … learned more about Chinese Medicine.

My lovely girlfriend made this Paella for a very interesting group in Tokyo

There’s this Okinawa bitter melon slices in this salad that is said to help with heat exhaustion one might suffer from – that’s me … Karuizawa was nice and cool but Tokyo … is too hot and humid.