Silver Lights from the clouds !

by Kazu

We walked around the hot spring pond "ohyunuma" near the hot spring spa "Yumoto" run by Rankoshi Town where delicious top quality rice "Rankoshi Mai" is produced. You can easily recognize the difference of the taste if you had.

 

But speaking of the pond, the smell of  sulfur was so strong that we had to do laundry in the room we stayed. Hotel Setsu Niseko had such nice laundry machine and strong detergent for the guests, particularly of long stay.  

The wood deck built around the pond was so nice to walk on around the pond. The deck seemed to be sulfur proof naturally even on the hot spring. We have never seen wild animals around the pond before but I remember so many bison warm up themselves in "Yellow Stone National Park" of the United States of America. 

 

Greedy Capitalist may break this scenery ?

by Kazu

This is the pond of hot spring spa "Ohyunuma" that smells of sulfur. Some parts of the pond are so hot but other parts of the pond is not so hot but no fish there.   

It is strictly prohibited to enter the pond. I've never seen tourists who enter the pond.The steam appeared from the surface of the pond. 

Japanese pampas grass stood still beside the pond. The plants are so strong that they grow the fastest in the wilderness. We Japanese love to see the beautiful full moon in the midst of September with some pampas grass and sweet sticky rice cake ball every year.