Ginzan

Ginzan is the name of a an old area where they use to do silver mining. Its kind of Like Virginia City in that its now a neat little tourist spot with good food and fun shops. One big differene, as you can tell from the photo, is how pretty it is there especially in fall. We went on about an hour hike up through mountians and into one mine shaft. This picture of the waterfall is actually taken down at the base of the trail, but it seemed like a very Japanesey photo to us.


This photo is in the actual little town itself. Japan is famous for its onesens (hot springs), but this town has little one that is the middle of it you can put your feet into after walking around. It was super hot so we ended up a the little kid one that was a little cooler. You can see all the steam in the area from the heat. It felt very good though. The onsen water feels slippery because of all the minerals in it and different areas in Japan have different minerals so they encourage you to try them all.