And relax….

We arrived in the beach side Ito around 4pm and headed straight for the hostel. This was a 100 year old traditional ryoken with its own onsen in the basement. After sorting ourselves out, and a spot of dinner, we headed out to the dream festival that was going on. More stands with drink, food and games. An awesome double act on stage, a female singing and male guitarist. The fireworks started and they carried on playing. It was nice to have both at the same time. A late night onsen and bed called.

In the morning I grabbed another long onsen, then we headed to the beach. Checking the sculptures out along the front. The beach was a black sand that was burning to the touch.

After the nice relaxing night and morning it was time to get our last trains on our pass, which meant last bento too.

Back to where it all began, Kurimae in Tokyo. Welcomed back by the people in the hostel we settled in. Dinner that night we headed to a place that had a giant cow on the side, taken up an elevator and sat down and only then shown the menu. 25000 yen per dish, we quickly got up and left, ending up with a traditional cheap fare.