Noboribetsu is famous for ghost is because they have a hell valley there… it is where the onsen water comes from. The Hell Valley is a most go place for tourist, and so Chris and I went to check it out after our buffet breakfast at hotel 登別万世閣 . Unlike touring with a guide, we actually have time to walk around the valley. Most of the tours just dropped off the people and asked them to go back to the bus within 10-15 mintues, that’s one of the reasons why I dislike travelling with tour and cannot do what I want to do. When we got there we saw a lot of mainland Chinese taking photos and as I mentioned, they required to return to the bus within 10 minutes. Many of them have lined up for the toilet there (well, at least they queued!!) and some of them have spoken loudly to each other… Chris and I quickly ecsape the ”Chinese Zone” and we walked to the middle of the valley and be able to enjoy the scenery finally!

Chris and I caught a train to Hakodate at around 10:30am, the last city that we will visit in our honeymoon. Hakodate is one of the southest cities in Hokkaido, and it is famous for squid production. The train we caught was pretty full and even we can reverse seats (U seats), Chris and I cannot sit together. So I bought ice-cream to cheer us up!

After arriving to the Hakodate Train Station, we caught a bus to Yunokawa Onsen (湯の川温泉) and checked-in to our hotel – Yunokawa Prince Hotel Nagisatei (渚亭). We definitely will recommend this hotel as this is the best onsen hotel we have even stayed! (http://nagisatei.info/)

I have found and booked this hotel when I was in Australia. We booked the private outdoor bath plan (ocean view), 18m2 Japanese style room, including two meals each day for two nights at total rate of 67,200 yen. It is equivalent to $800 Australian dollars or $5,500 Hong Kong dollars. It was very expensive!! But let me tell you, it worth every single penny of it!
After we checked in, Chris and I went out for lunch. We have been told by the hotel receptionist that there is a famous ramon shop nearby. So we went off to fill up our tummies. I ordered a salt based ramen and Chris ordered an oil based ramen (just because my oil base ramen tasted better when we had ramen in Sapporo). But again, my ramen tasted better this time! Poor Chris.



After lunch, we went back to our hotel room for our very own private onsen. Chris loves this private onsen at the baloney because he won’t be stared at by some Japanese old men at the public onsen. And we can truely relax in the hot onsen and enjoy the view of sunset and the sound of the ocean.




At around 7pm, we went down to our private room for our Japanese dinner, which is included in the package. The food just kept coming until we can’t eat anymore. The service, quantity of food, art of placing the food and decoration were just excellent! The first night dinner included fruit flavoured sake starter; baked snail; sashimi bowl for two; crab legs with Japanese Mayonnaise; chicken & squid shabu shabu; Green leaf salad; grilled fish with mushrooms; lemon sobert and a non-idenified dish.
After dinner, our room has been setted and we decided to have more onsen time…








