Jan 9 - Himeji to Kinosaki Onsen

We woke at 6am and had breakfast by 7am. We left our hotel at 8:20am and walked to the station to catch the Hamakaze 1 at 8:57am. This was an old diesel train that would its way to the west coast and took about 2hr arriving at 10:50am.

Kinosaki onsen is a cute little town, we dropped our bags at our hotel and walked up and down the 2 main streets. By this time is was just after 12 noon. So we decided to go to a foot bath and warm our toes. So we walked back uo the 2 streets to a Footpath and enjoyed this for a few minutes. As we had until 3pm to check in and access our room we decided at 12:50pm that we would ride the train one stop to Takeno.

We made the 1:17pm train to Takeno and walked the 1.4km to the beach. So now we have visited the west and east coasts of Japan this trip. It was a cool vibe even though we barely saw anyone out, a fair few cars. And of course we stopped for an ice-cream along the way. Our walk around the beach area toik us out along a break wall. We walked back to the station for the 3:18pm train, it arrived at 3:06pm, so we jumped on.

After a rest in the room, we decided to grab an early dinner of hot dogs at a burger place across from our hotel at 4:35pm as they shut at 5pm. After dinner we headed out to try a few of the 7 onsens in the town. We did three of the onsens Konoyu onsen that had a nice rock bath outside, then Goshonoyu onsen that also had outdoor rock baths, and lastly we tried Ichinoyu onsen that had a cave like onsen.

After this we took a stroll around town taking photographs of the beautiful surroundings, then we got some ice-cream from the supermarket for dessert.Read more