Our next stop is Yunessun Hot Spring Theme Park! Everyone’s excited for it! We took the Ropeway back to Sounzan, changed back to the Cable Car to Gora Station and took the Hakone Tozan Bus bounded for Yunnessun.
Waiting for the slow ropeway.
Finally its here!
At the bottom, going off to catch the bus!
(L) This handsome guy is very shy, he refuses to look at my camera!
(R) The children so cute!
Waiting for bus!
Yunessun was like a large palace and they had super many types of Hot Spring! Lin and Cin went for this Hot Spring slide called “Rodeo Mountain” which they kept raving about and even went on it a second time! Lin even said the slide was quite slow so it will be fine. One of my resolutions for this trip was to try new things, so I decided to heck it and go on the slide with them on their second time. Trust me, it was a wrong move for me. The slide did start off slow at the beginning for 3 seconds before it went really fast like crazy and I SCREAMED all the way down (Resonance of “SOB! I DON’T WANT ALREADY! I DON’T WANT ALREADY!!”) till my voice turned hoarse, and I swear my tears were flowing as I smacked into the water! I sputtered and coughed my way up and I felt cheated. The slide was a killer for me! Definitely not fun for the un-adventurous and weak hearted.
Have we reached? Seems like it!
whoaaa~ Palace! Almost Paradiseeee....!
Yep Yep! Quick lets go already!
Cute chairs and a cute girl :)
Entrance Fee! Actually, it could have been cheaper but i forgot to print the coupon! Dang! They have alot of promotional coupons in their Japan website. Do check it out if you are going!
Changed and armed with the map! Ready to explore!
Whoa "blue skies"! bad camera~
In our first hot spring! you'll see plastic in these few photos cos we wrapped the camera in it. haha.
The FREAKY slide! Grrr..
The next we tried was this floating bath which had us floating once we turned our backs! I couldn’t control where I was floating to though!
Floating!
Next, normal hot spring!
The small boy so cute!
Wah big bottle of red wine!
Guy pouring red wine for everyone!
Timing for the fish spa! See the people in the background enjoying it!
Monkey See Monkey Do! I have totally no idea what he was saying!
Fishes!!! Tickles!
Happy ~
Boiling coffee pool!
Enjoying and intoxicated! This Sake is the shiokest~
Green Teaaa~
Smiles! Notice there is no more plastic thing! haha~ I couldn't take it any longer! I want a waterproof camera!
Charcoal bath with real charcoal (duh!)
(L) Floating Corpses
The Charcoal House from another view!
Walking Bath! Crazily pain can! Its foot reflexology at its best and my feet smarts like crazy!
Marble Floor! Best! I love it! Acting as the korean ahjumas. haha!
Pose! Enjoy and relax~~ Lin does a mean foot reflexology! Very shiok ah!
Ramen Sweet Drops! So tempted to buy! But I didn't. Wonder how it tastes like..
840 yen for 3 types. They have curry flavour too!
Very satisfied and relaxed !
So cute! 3D neoprint!
Thus, ends our wonderful Hot Spring theme park experience and back to our hotel! Wonderfully recharged, and slightly hungry, we checked in and 'complained' about the number of stairs we had to climb. (Thankfully, they gave us a room on the 2nd level!) Oh! And they were so nice! They already put our luggage in the room so we didn't have to lug it up 2 levels :) *melts*
When we opened the door, we were pleasantly surprised! The room is huge! Not exactly really enormous but compared to our small hostel room, we had plenty a place to walk and hop! We even had a tatami floor with a very comfy futon bed that we melted right into! Immediately the bed people (lin and cin) started fighting for it with the floor people (me and ju) and even suggested that all 4 of us squeeze and sleep on the floor! HAHA *crazy people* After a short discussion, we changed into our yukata and took some pics. Who was to know, these set of pictures will be our last set in the hotel… why? Read on!
Sitting area which in turns become our sleeping area with futon beds.
"Clogs"
Hahaha Action.
With grumbling tum tums, we headed to the hotel’s café and ordered a few dishes. They gave us Oolong Tea, on the house they said! Yeay~ The café was quiet and only had a man with a lady in kimono. We didn’t hold high expectations of the food thus, we were pleasantly surprised at how yummy it was! We decided to order Sake too and it was yummy as well! The staffs were friendly but slightly reserved and who was to know, that night would turn wild, fun and so memorable!
Don't Mess with Us!
4 bananas? 4 corn? Nah... 4 yellow wet towels!
Happy, where's the food!
Sake arrives first! yums!
Spaghetti! Looks plain and normal but its super yummy!
Fried Rice which was surprisingly nice too!
This is so singapore taste but nevertheless, yums!
Role Acting !
Happyyy
Pizza! Wah nice!
i think she's intoxicated. haha!
We had a very full and satisfied dinner, when one of the staff came and plonked this book on our table and said “Karaoke, on the house!” We were shocked and happy (cos’ we are all karaoke people!), especially when the menu wrote “Karaoke 300Yen”. But, it was on the house too! From then on, things got wild! We sang songs, got to know the man and the lady in kimono and the staff who’s English is really good! Soon, an angmor couple came along and joined in karaoke-ing! We blended really well and had the time of our lives! The lady in kimono asked where we came from, and once I said Singapore, she said “Yakun Kaya Toast! Oishii desu ne! Suki desu!” She loves Yakun! So sweet! We entertained them with chinese songs, in turn, they entertained us with Japanese songs ( I even asked her to sing Namie Amuro’s “Can You Celebrate”! And she has a really good voice!), and the angmor couple also entertained us with English songs! We had a fun time laughing, clapping, chatting … memories! The staff even handed us Sparkles and lighted the Sparkles for us! So cute!! I Love Them ALL! One of the most hilarious part was when the angmors (whom we chatted and got to know them as England-ers! They were friendly and doesn’t karaoke often!) sang the song “We are the world”. omg.. it was hilarious! The song kept repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating AND REPEATING and repeating and repeating and REPEATING and repeating and repeating and repeatingggg… You get the idea!! Till the guy sang “We are the world, we are STILL the children…….” Absolutely hilarious! :D
The Karaoke book with many many songs! Pretty cool huh
Enjoying!
The 'geisha'! She wanted to take the photo!
Chinese songs with japanese subtitles! haha~
Us all! Enjoyinggggg
Our turn!
Claps and claps and claps!
The England-ers!
Happy! she's a Gay-sha!
Sparkles! Even our eyes are sparkling from the happiness!
This photo look weird but I wanted to show u one of the friendly staff! He has a good command of english and is sooo helpful!
The guy who offered us drinks on the house~
Our 2nd glass of sake!
They got high! In their own ways! A scene that i will only see in mangas or anime!
Lin video-ed and took photos throughout and that’s when the bomb dropped on us. Both cameras were on low battery and we just realised that we left the camera charger in Tokyo and only brought 1 extra battery along, which is also on low batt… And we are thrown into despair as we still had one full day in Hakone with many places planned out. Our only plan was to go back to our room and check through our bags and hope for a miracle. We even asked the staff, *the one that i say the picture looks weird* if they happened to have a charger, but he didn't, but he took the liberty to go find those travel adapters for us, thinking that we might need it! He is so kind and i was very overwhelmed and touched. Thank you so much! :)
Nevertheless, this still marks our wonderful one night in Hakone with meeting the best people! Eth & Qara! I still remembered how down and worried I felt about our dinner in Hakone cos’ it was known that Hakone sleeps early, and we won’t be able to find dinner after 7pm. God’s Good! No, He is Greater than Great! :D
When we went back to our room, we were dead tired, but Ju started rummaging the bags for a miracle. Nothing turned up, we started thinking of alternatives and changing of itinerary… And we prayed! Took our anointing oil and prayed over our batteries and cameras that it will give it supernatural strength! :D But most importantly, we decided to get disposable cameras the next day. We then took turns cleaning up, and soon after, we were asleep.
More photos here and here!


