On the last day of our road trip, we went to Goshiki-numa. From our hotel it was about a five minute
drive to the Urabandai
Visitor Center,
where we could park our car for free. There
was another parking lot closer to the entrance to Goshiki-numa, but we didn’t
know about it until we started walking.
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| Bishamon-numa |
Goshiki-numa is made up of five-different colored volcanic
lakes, and walking to all of them takes about an hour and a half on foot. Apparently the colors of the lakes changes
color throughout the year depending on the weather. It was lightly raining when we went, so if we
had gone on a sunny day I wonder if the colors would have been different.
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| Aka-numa |
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| Midoro-numa |
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| Benten-numa |
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| Ao-numa |
It started raining more heavily after we finished our trek. The owner of the Chalet Urabandai hotel kindly
offered to pick us up and drive us to our car after we had finished our trek. It was so kind of him to offer, since we had already checked out!
After we got back to the car, we drove to a nearby
restaurant to get lunch. The restaurant
selection around Goshiki-numa is very scarce.
We went to the stylish
Restaurant Monterey. I got the mentaiko spaghetti and my friend
ordered the sandwiches. Both of our
choices were so-so, so I would recommend getting something different (such as
the
hamburg
steak) if you go.
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| Ice cream flavors at Goshiki-numa |
No trip is complete without ice cream, so we both decided to get ice cream before we went back to Chiba. We went back to
the entrance to Goshiki-numa to get some ice cream! They had some really interesting flavors! My friend got the peach and Chocolate and
Peach flavor, and I tried the Goshikinuma and Peach flavor. They were both delicious. It was the perfect way to end our Tohoku
road trip and our summer.
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| Goshikinuma and Peach Flavor (YUM) |
