Tamanoyu （玉乃湯）| Hot Spring Hotel | Noboribetsu

Noboribetsu is a hot spring paradise! If you want to stay a homey hot spring inn, how about "Tamanoyu （玉乃湯）?

Let's enter it!
This hot spring hotel is an annex of Takinoya （滝乃家）.

While Takinoya （滝乃家） is one of the high-end hotels in Noboribetsu, Tamanoyu （玉乃湯） is a very homely and cozy hot spring inn!
(If you are interested in Takinoya （滝乃家）, please refer to my other post→☆.)

This is my room↓ We can enjoy Japanese room with wonderful scenery!

I really recommend their hot spring! This inn is not so big that we can enjoy peaceful atmosphere in the outdoor hot spring area!

The water contains a lot of sulfur (more than 2mg sulfur/1kg water), which makes your skin more beautiful!

We don't have to prepare shampoo and conditioner by ourselves!

One of my favorites in the hotel is their delicious meal!!! This restaurant area has...........

Irori fireplaces like this! Looks very Japanese, doesn't it? We can enjoy Japanese BBQ on them!!

I'll show you our dinner course. Are you ready?
(The menu changes depending on the month)

■Appetizer: bracken tofu
It is served very beautifully!!

■Hors d'oeuvre: whelk, field mustard with mustard, deep-fried broad beana horsebeana fava (bean), sea bream with cherry blossom petals
We really enjoyed this sophisticated hors d'oeuvre! The beans are always picked the same day, and unfaded!!!

■Sashimi: Otanebi prown, scallop, and salmon
This scallop was caught off Noboribetsu, and very fresh and sweet!! I love it!!

Here come the Japanese BBQ time!
We can choose our favorite items!!

I chose everything! Hahaha!

I love landlocked masu salmon especially! Yummy x 2!!!

■Salmon stew
This stew reminds me of Hokkaido!!! It is called Ishikari nabe, very famous local dish!

■Chawanmushi with seasonable bamboo shoots
Cool! I love something seasonable available only in this season!

■ Vinegared mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricate, types of edible seaweed)
We cannot stop drinking! Hahaha! Grated Chinese yam is on the top!

■Bamboo shoot rice

Super delicious!!! I love bamboo shoots!!

We enjoyed collagen soup and pickles other than the dishes I introduced to you on this post.
After the dinner, we enjoyed desserts!

■Apple, grape, and strawberry
Look at the grape! It looks like a small flower! How about the strawberry? It looks like a ladybird!!

■Homemade soft chocolate
Perfect! Yummy x 2! We are all full!!

We really enjoyed the dinner course!

Well, well, well, this is a breakfast set!

Each portion is small so that we can enjoy many kinds of local foods for breakbast!

This is hot spring egg; egg slow-boiled so that the yolk is hard but the white is still soft!

Homemade tofu was on the salad! Yummy x 2!!!

This yogurt is also homemade!!

Near this hotel, there is a cherry blossom view point.

We enjoyed double cherry blossoms from the heart! How lucky we are!!

■Where is Tamanoyu （玉乃湯別館　玉乃湯）?

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Uni Murakami （うに むらかみ函館本店）| Sea Urchin Restaurant | Hakodate

If you want to eat delicious sea urchin in Hakodate, I recommend "Uni Murakami （うに　むらかみ函館本店）" in Fish Market area （朝市エリア） near JR Hakodate Station.

They serve a lot of kinds of sea urchin dishes like this! Wow! I want to eat everything! Hahaha!

Let's enter it!
Very fresh seafood is used in this restaurant! Sounds perfect, doesn't it?

I love this tatami table seat. It looks like a tatami floor, but actually tatami mats are on normal chairs! Hahaha!

What should I order??? Sea urchin bowls are the most recommendable dishes in this restaurant, but...............

I've found a very reasonable set named "Sea Urchin B Set （生うにB定食）". It is only 1,365 yen! Wonderful!

The panel shows the fishing sites for the dishes they serve today. Of course, they use sea urchin caught only in Hokkaido!

Cheers!

This is an appetizer; boiled squid and shrimps with sea urchin sauce. Yummy x 2!!!

Voila!
This is "Sea Urchin B Set （生うにB定食）"! This sea urchin is so fresh that it does not need any food preservative! Yummy x 2!!
Are you ready? I'll open the lid!

How do you like it? Wonderful!!! More than perfect!!

Looks very fresh, doesn't it? Actually it is very very very delicious!!!

I enjoyed as it is first, and.................

put it on the rice, and eat it as a sea urchin bowl! Perfect!
Again, it is only 1,365 yen!!! Unbelievable!

Look at this↓ I've found another wonderful thing! This is sea urchin salt, 80 % of which is dried sea urchin! I've never seen such a delicious condiment! Of course, I bought it! Hahaha!

Hakodate is a seafood paradise!

■Where is "Uni Murakami （うに　むらかみ函館本店）"?

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Yachigashira Onsen （谷地頭温泉）| Hot Spring | Hakodate

Yunokawa （湯の川） in Hakodate is a popular hot spring area among tourists, but if you want to enjoy very local hot spring, how about "Yachigashira Onsen （谷地頭温泉）"? This is a municipal spa, and the fee is only 420 yen! Unbelievable!!!

Let's take a street car to Yachigashira （谷地頭）, a terminal station!

It's interesting!

There are a lot of types of street cars in Hakodate! Some trams have a shop advertisement like this↓

This is like a moving advertisement

How about this? This is a latest version of street car!

Well, well, well.............
Please take off the car at Yachigachira （谷地頭）, and find this sign. It takes only 3-5 minutes from the station to the hot spring facility.

We've arrived at Yachigashira Onsen （谷地頭温泉）, my favorite hot spring!

Please take off your shoes at the entrance, and let's go!

This is a place to rest. How huge it is!

Are you ready? You must be impressed with its high quality of water!!!

There are three kinds of indoor hot spring in the bathhouse; very hot bath, hot bath, and bubble bath.
Actually I love its outdoor bath. Look at this↓ It is star-shaped like Goryokaku Fort （五稜郭）!

The water contains a lot of iron, and when you take this hot spring, you cannot see your body through the mineral-rich water! Sounds very therapeutic, doesn't it?

Luckily, we could appreciate double cherry blossoms （八重桜） from the bath area! I was so happy the water makes my skin seven years younger than what it is!!!

It is open from 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Very convenient, Isn't it?

■Where is "Yachigashira Onsen （谷地頭温泉）"?

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■Tour guide information■

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