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2016年1月8日金曜日

New Year's marathon relay race, the seasonal tradition in Japan winter. (Hakone Eki-den/箱根駅伝: Second day)

On the second day, I could see the top team of the race.


The top team was Aoyama Gakuin University.
This team started as a top, and kept the position through out the race.





Hakone ekiden have severe rules.

As I wrote yesterday, 21 teams can run the race every year.
The top ten teams can run next year's Hakone ekiden race without election race.
But the position become under 11, the team have to win the election race which held only two month before Hakone ekiden. As it is so difficult to keep the condition and motivation for two months, whole team wishes to keep the 10th position.

This is one of the severe rules.


The second severe rules is that if the team 10 minutes behind time from top team on outward, and 20 minutes on returning race, the runner who waits for sash have to start running without receiving it.

By this rule, we sometimes see the runner who were waiting for the team mate have to start running even though they can see him coming near. It is so ruthless scene.

The runners had done their best this year, as every year usual, it was really good race.






I have to wait a year again to see these young athletes running.


What I thought was that I have to work hard and be healthy to enjoy watching the race next year.

Thank you for reading!
Have a nice weekend!

箱根駅伝, 青山学院大学, 正月

New Year's marathon relay race, the seasonal tradition in Japan winter. (Hakone Eki-den/箱根駅伝: First day)

On January 2nd and 3rd, most famous marathon race is held in Japan.
This race is called Hakone Eki-den (箱根駅伝).


"Eki-den (駅伝)" means "marathon relay race" in Japanese.
The runners are the teams of university.

They are the top 21 running teams of Japanese university which won many marathon races in the past year. There are 10 runners in each team, and one runner runs about 20 kilometers each.

They starts running from Tokyo, hand-off sash, the baton made of cloth, and runs to top of Hakone mountain in first day. In second day, the runners starts from mountain top of Hakone, and comes back to Tokyo again. The distance of one way is about 110 kilometers, so they runs 220 kilometers in two days.



The first day, I took the pictures of runners who goes to Hakone mountain.


When the runners passes, one side of street will be completely blocked, so that no cars or
motorcycles can't get in. Only police and a car which coach of each team rides can run with them.



A lot of people are coming near to the street, and cheers the runners swinging the flags.


As the course is public road, there are a lot of up and down hills.
Some runners seems like flying when coming down the hill.


They are so fast that I couldn't take the photos in best pint...
In the second day, I took little more photos of runners. so I will post them later.

Thank you for reading!
Good night!

箱根駅伝, 城西大学, 神奈川大学, 東京国際大学, 上武大学, 法政大学, 正月

2015年10月22日木曜日

Enjoy Onsen, the hot spring in Ryokan (Kansui-rou / 環翠楼, Hakone / 箱根)

I think most of Japanese people likes hot spring.
I'm also the one!! We say hot spring "Onsen (温泉)" in Japanese.


For travelers from other countries, it maybe little difficult to take a bath with strangers without swimming wears. But if once you can get used to it, I think your world will be little get wider.




At Kansui-rou, there were three kinds of Onsen.

One kind is ordinary type, and you can rock the door.
You can get in only with your acquaintance, so it may be easier to try for first time.

Other two are inside and outside of the building.

First, I went outside type of hot spring.
Walking through the typical Japanese style garden, I reached there.




There are small building for taking the cloth off.
The hot spring was placed next to the river and I could see the stream.


Don't worry, there are wall so that people out side can't see.


I really got relaxed and enjoyed taking a bath in the nature.



I get back inside to get in other type of hot spring.
The stained glass were there.



As I was alone for just few minutes, I only could take few pictures.


The hot spring inside of building was nostalgic style.
As Hakone was a resort spot from more than 100 years ago, western culture merged to old Japanese hotel.


The western style was seen on the light's design, too.


After I got out, I had dinner at my room.
To be exact, I had beer before the dinner.

On the beer's label, there were text "Hakone (箱根)".


The beer after the hot spring was very very tasty.

If you visit Japan, please try hot spring!
I really recommend them.

Thank you for reading!
Have a nice day!

箱根, 旅館, 環翠楼, 温泉, 露天風呂,

2015年10月20日火曜日

Staying in a Ryokan, relaxing way having dinner at own room (Kansui-rou / 環翠楼, Hakone / 箱根)

Today, I will show the dinner of Kansui-rou.
As Hakone placed in the mountain near the sea, we can eat both sea and mountain foods.
The course named Hazuki (葉月/ Ancient way of calling August in Japan) was served.

Appetizer were like this.

* Sashimi (刺身)


They were Maguro (鮪/tuna), Tai (鯛/sea bream), and Ika(烏賊/squid).
The flower and leaf is Shiso (しそ), the Japanese basil and you can eat them. It's scent add spice to sashimi. Really tasty!



* Tounyu-mushi (豆乳蒸し/Steamed soy milk), with Uni (雲丹/Sea urchin)


The green grass is called Mitsuba (三つ葉). This is also like Japanese basil which smells good but doesn't interrupt sea urchin.

* Arare Yamaimo (あられ山芋/ fried yam)


<Right side>
* Salmon Kabu-maki (サーモン蕪巻き/ Salmon rolled with turnip)
* Tamago-cheese (卵チーズ/ Rolled egg with cheese )
* Moro-Kyuri (もろ胡瓜/ Japanese pickle cucumber)

<Left side>
* Tomato Mitsu-ni (トマト密煮/ Boiled tomato)
* Eda-mame (枝豆/ Boiled Green Soy bean)


We eats green soy beans with beer. I saw on TV program that some Japanese restaurant in New York started to serve green soy beans, eda-mame. American people seemed enjoying it, but is it ture?

The soup came next.

* Osui-mono (お吸い物/ Japanese soup) with Kani-shinjyo (かに真丈/ fried crab), Matsutake (松茸/ pine mushroom)


The tied glass is Mitsuba again. This glass matches to several Japanese foods.

Baked dishes came next.

* Suzuki Nanbu-Yaki (鱸 南部焼き/ Baked sea perch), Karashi-Konjac (辛子こんにゃく/ Konjac food with mustard), and Yanaka-syouga (谷中生姜/ Stick Ginger)


The sauce was made from Edamame.

* Hito-kuchi stake (一口ステーキ/ small stake)


The sauce were made of dried laver seaweed.

The boiled vegetable came for interval.

* Tougan to Nasu no Holland ni (冬瓜と茄子のオランダ煮/ Boiled winter melon and eggplant western style)


At the end of Edo era, nearly 200 years ago, Japan learned a lot of things from Holland.
This dish used cooking style which came from abroad, so placed word "Holland" which means "cooking style came from western".

After baked dishes, Tempra came.

* Ebi-shinjyo (海老真丈/ Fried shrimp)
* Shiitake (椎茸/ Shiitake mushroom)
* Shishi-tou (ししとう/ Green chili)


Green chili is not hot at all. Maybe they are picked up before it gets hot.
(Some we hits so hot green chili, so be careful.)

At last, rice and miso-soup had served.


I like to have rice and miso-soup with other foods usually, but they are served at last in traditional way.

If you need relaxing time, I recommend staying at Ryokan.

I will write about hot spring at this Ryokan.
Onsen, the hot spring in Japan was also written in lonley planet, too.

Thank you for reading!
Good night!

箱根, 旅館, 環翠楼, 夕食, 葉月

2015年10月17日土曜日

Staying in a Ryokan and relaxing with hot springs (Kansui-rou / 環翠楼, Hakone / 箱根)

I have read lonley planet Japan and knew that staying Ryokan (旅館), the traditional Japanese inns, was placed No.5 in Japan's TOP 25.

At Ryokan, we Japanese wear Yukata (浴衣), Japanese robe, and spend relaxing time.
You can spend time any way you like. Just staying at room is fine. Maybe good idea to get in hot spring.

This summer, I stayed Ryokan named "Kansui-rou".


This Ryokan's has long history, opened 400 years ago.
Lot's of famous people visited here, even the family of Japanese emperor stayed long time.



This is the entrance.


When checking in, I saw an old register.
The staff told me that they aren't using it know, but left as ornament.


I like these antique goods.

At the lobby, they served cold sake, rice wine.
As it was hot day, the cold sake was really tasty.

These are the bottle filled with sake, and cool down with ice water.


These are the cups.
As sake is little strong, drinking a little at a time is good way.


After I enjoyed welcome drink, I went to my room.
The name of my room was Hayakawa (早川).
Hayakawa is the river's name which runs next to this Ryokan.


First step in the room.


Completely Japanese room, the floor was tatami (畳), Japanese straw mat.
I forgot to tell first, but we have to take off shoes at the entrance of Ryokan.


As there are lot's of earthquakes in Japan, the most of building were made of woods.
As woods are strong but soft, they are good material for building in Japan.

Even the paper was used a part for window and door. The window is called Syouji (障子) and door is called Fusuma (襖).




The sun lights become soft when went through the paper window.

There were sweet treat and tea waiting for me.


I took a little break and went to hot spring.
I will introduce the hot spring and dinner in later.

Thank you for reading!!
Have a nice weekend!!

箱根, 旅館, 環翠楼, 早川