Japan Trip / To Hita

Woke up, and left for Hita.
We stopped at Yufuin, another beautiful town.

They were making Baumkuchen

AFter long long drive, (Thank you for driving us The Setoguchi family!)
We were in Hita.
This is Matt's one of favorite place to have karaage.
Oharaya!
Had lunch,

Then visited chi-chan's family music shop, Uno gakki,
where we found this cute little guy.
This little guy, "Chopp" was saved by chi-chan when he was little kitten.

And this beautiful girl, "Marble" raised Chopp.
Photo of Marble breast feeding Chopp was in the local news paper...
How cute. makes me cry~

Chi chan took us to Mamedamachi.
One of Jyokamachi. (Used to be castle town)

Filled with cute stores.
I see bunch of Zaku's head from Gundum

Nice building. What used to be dentist!

Anpan break

Went Matt's favorite cafe in Hita, Alaskan cafe ←(facebook link）

latte with home made chocolate.
(art done by matt...)

Owner has Kayak down from Somewhere is Alaska (I forgot) down to somewhere in Seattle.
Full of talented guy! This lip was made by him. it talks to us.
Check out his other works from someone else's blog! here

for dinner, I had my first Toriten!

Next morning, we did little more walking.
Matt blending in with nature...

This giant rope is replaced every year. and Luci, owner for Oharaya worked on it little before we arrived there!

Big

One hundred Sixty some stairs to get up

Then went to Whisky museum.
These are all owner's personal collection.
He said he has been collecting ever since 7th grade!

Nice bar on the side!

Thanks everyone in Hita for taking care of us!