Friday, February 4, 2011

Arima hotspring


This is one of the oldest and most well known hot springs in Japan. It was indeed a lovely little village with cute shops and spectacular food.


I didn't know that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the samurai lord who almost unified Japan out of Osaka in the 16th century used to come here with Sennorikyu, who established and formalized Japanese tea ceremony. Apparently they were buddies!

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