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| View of Onami Pond from the top of Karakunidake |
My brother invited us to Japanese inn with hot-spring in Kagoshima prefecture to celebrate our parents' silver wedding. Kagoshima is the place I grow up. Since weather was nice in this season, we had planned climbing mountain the day before the celebration.
We got up 3 am, took 6 am airplane from Haneda airport. The mountain we climbed was Mt.Karakunidake which is the highest peak of Kirishima mountain rage.
Even though I climbed the peak twice in my past, the view was still astonishing. Below the peak I saw Onami Pond – the beautiful crater-lake, Mt. Sakurajima – active volcano floating on Kinko Bay...I could even see the Mt. Kaimondake located far south of Kagoshima.
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| The top of Karakunidake |
Next day we visited ryokan (Japanese inn with hot-spring) where my brother made the party reservation. We didn't tell our parents that I and my husband are coming to the party from Tokyo. So it was a surprise for them. We waited them at lobby. They came. But they didn't notice us at all. I sat on the sofa across from the sofa my farther was sitting, our eyes met, his strange face approached me saying "Are～(Uh-oh...)" . We enjoyed Japanese style course meal and hot-spring in nature.
As we get old and live far a way, it became difficult for family to gather like this. So it was precious moment to me.
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| family photo at the inn. |
