Thursday, September 11, 2008

Umi Jigoku (Sea Hell)

This hell is the one I had seen in pictures before we visited the hell park. Above is a lily pond.
You can see the steam rising up from the pool although the pool itself is not yet in sight. Below another lily pond. There aren't so many lily's because it's winter and cold outside. During the winter they raise many inside a greenhouse.

Me in front of the steaming sea blue hell. It was really steaming so that's about all you can see in the this picture. Markian is pictured below.

Here you can see why they call is the "sea hell" Isn't the color beautiful?
They are cooking eggs in the water. There is a basket on a string in the water that is attached to that bamboo pole.
This was a small shrine at the hell.


Look at all the steam!


There were many beautiful lily pads growing inside the greenhouse. I can only imagine in the spring what they all look like outside.





A small reddish hell in the complex I think. Honestly I don't remember it. But according to the order of my pictures that's where it places it.

haha I understood what the sign meant, but it still made me laugh, "hot spring of a leg."
Above: Me putting on a fake smile as the water is scalding, but nice. It had Yuzu (big citrus fruit that grow in the area) floating in it. It made the water smell really nice and fruity.

Below: Me making faces that show the feeling of the scalding hot water, while Mark watches and laughs at me, since he wouldn't get in. And yes I had bought a towel by this point, so I could enjoy my foot bath.

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