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May 2021, a travelogue of a free-spirited solo male trip! Since I went sightseeing in Odawara after Atami Onsen on a 1-night 2-day trip, I will introduce a solo male travelogue (the real thrill).
That there was a huge amount of manga placed in the post-bath relaxation area of the hot spring, and I accidentally started reading manga and almost ended up spending the night doing so, is an eternal secret.
“Atami and Odawara 1-Night 2-Day Hot Spring Travelogue (May 2021)”
Journey 1. Moving to Atami
Since I was scheming to eat “seafood” or “simmered alfonsino” for lunch at an eatery in Atami, I planned to take the Shinkansen departing Tokyo Station at 11:00 to arrive in Atami around 12:00 PM, but I was suddenly late by over an hour!
That nobody gets mad at you even if you are late is a good thing about solo travel, but I get mad at myself!
I unintentionally almost bought an ekiben on the Shinkansen platform, but through painful endurance I managed not to buy one. If I ate here, I wouldn’t be able to eat lunch in Atami! Arrival ended up being past 1:00 PM.
With my stomach completely empty, I arrived at Atami Station, and the McDonald’s right in front of me unintentionally looked very delicious, but luckily the cars were congested so I couldn’t go. Solo travel is full of traps! Eating at McDonald’s would be fine, but the meaning of coming to Atami would be halved.
Right now with this completely empty stomach, even these guys look like food! …No they don’t
Journey 2. Lunch is Alfonsino at a Famous Restaurant
Walking along the Atami station-front shopping street, a famous eatery introduced on Atami guide sites comes into view.
Since I am completely empty-handed stomach-wise (because I overslept), when I entered the shop without inspecting it inside and out anyway (because I was late), they said the course menu was recommended, so I chose a course where I could eat “simmered alfonsino.” While ordering beer and waiting about 10 minutes for the “simmered alfonsino” to appear, the simmered dish that emerged was jet black.
My honest impression was that the simmered dish tasted fairly salty, so I thought it was good that I ordered beer, but since it wasn’t very delicious, I won’t write the shop name.
It was written that the course meal came with sherbet for dessert, and when I thought about washing down the insides of my mouth that had become salty with sweet, refreshing sherbet (dessert), the dessert was iced coffee!
Haaah?! Σ(￣□￣;)
The dessert is iced coffee!?
The dessert is iced coffee!?
The dessert is iced coffee!?
Doesn’t the inside of a salty mouth change into the inside of a bitter mouth! Be careful!
Journey 3. Sightseeing in Atami
In Atami, there is a beach called “Atami Sun Beach.” In May during this season, to see the calm sandy beach without sea bathers, I left the eatery and walked to the coastline, but I realized while walking.
Atami Station is halfway up a mountain, Sun Beach is on the coastline!
Of course! It’s a slope, right?! Descending means that on the way back, I have to climb up.
At Atami Sun Beach, couples were scattered here and there, so I thoughtfully took a photo for the couples!
It’s “Omiya” and “Kanichi”! And subtly backlit. Speaking of “Omiya and Kanichi,” it is a story where Kanichi kicks Omiya for the sake of his own life, but since I am an ally of women in the world, I want to kick Kanichi’s back.
It’s “The Back I Want to Kick.”
Speaking of classic beach play, it’s the “brinkmanship game,” but almost without fail, I won’t stop until getting wet.
Journey 4. TEA Time at a Stylish Cafe
Having played with the waves at Sun Beach, I thought about going back to the inn, but naturally, the way back is uphill! Contrary to the refreshing seaside breeze, desperately climbing the mountain-climbing-grade slope that suddenly started and drenched in sweat, wandering small sloped paths for 30 minutes without knowing the location of the inn, my smartphone battery finally ran out…
Σ（￣□￣;）
If even the map (smartphone map) disappeared here, in the worst-case scenario, I’d be sleeping outdoors on a slope in Atami! Realizing that (that’s not going to happen (lol)), when I casually looked, I discovered a cafe.
Blue Nine Cafe
They said it becomes a “BAR” at night, so I thought about coming to the shop again after taking a hot spring bath, but right now I am gloriously lost in the sloped small paths of Atami! I have no confidence I can return (T_T).
Journey 5. Arriving at the Inn
The inn for tonight that I reserved is “Oedo Onsen Monogatari Atami.” It is an inn with a great value plan where a “funamori alfonsino” platter is attached, and both night and morning are all-you-can-eat buffets; I want to reach the inn quickly and wash away my body drenched in sweat on this slope with a hot spring!
I want to wash it away!
I want to wash it away!
I want to wash it away!
While praying like that and staring at my smartphone map, I finally arrived—”Oedo Onsen Monogatari Atami” was above this!
Σ（￣□￣;）
Now, what to do? “Oedo Onsen Monogatari Atami” towers far overhead, but there’s no way I can climb the stone wall. Grasping the situation while looking at Google Maps on my smartphone charged at the cafe!
I am torn between going up and down, or down and up!
Thinking about going down and up (blue route), I advanced about 5m and realized there was a normal “back door.” I’ll enter through the back door. (Checking in, though).
Check-in was at the 5th floor front desk, and going up by elevator, I checked in safely. Out of frustration, I went outside once and took a photo of the front entrance. That could probably have been taken during checkout on the way back too. Hotel staff might have thought, “What is this guy doing?”
Journey 6. Taking a Bath Before Dinner
As expected, I cannot take photos of the large public bath, so I took photos of the post-bath relaxation area! There was a forest of manga where once you wander in, you can’t come out!
Manga is the best!
Gazing at bare-faced ladies in yukata fresh out of the bath coming out cheerfully from the bathroom while reading manga intently—it was truly Shangri-La. If I fell asleep like this, dinner time would end, so I forcibly returned to my room!
Journey 7. Dinner is a Luxurious Buffet
When I went to the dinner venue (restaurant), families, couples, and women’s travel groups had already completely filled the tables, but I also discovered a solo male guest like me!
A comrade!
I shouted in my heart, but didn’t particularly approach. If anything, the table of two soft-looking ladies in picturesque yukata post-bath was filled with an irresistible scent♡ Looking nervously, isn’t that male solo guest from earlier already sitting at the table right next to them?
He wasn’t a comrade, he was a formidable rival!
There was a funamori alfonsino sashimi platter, so that I thought about bringing the whole ship to my table as it was is a secret. The destination to bring it to is the table of the 2-person women’s group! …That would be a nuisance to those it was brought to.
The all-you-can-eat sushi is also delightful, but with “sushi,” “soba,” “curry,” and “mixed rice,” I worried that I couldn’t finish eating everything. Here, bringing the whole box to the ladies’ table…
Alright already, enough of that!
8 pieces of sushi, simmered dishes, chicken wings, 8 slices of sashimi, steak, tempura, mapo tofu, simmered alfonsino, chawanmushi, tofu, egg tofu, white soup (lol), fruit for dessert—appetite exploded over romance! If I enter the bath after eating this, I’ll sink from being too heavy (eaten too much)!
Journey 8. Relaxing in the Room
In a cozy 7.5-tatami Japanese-style room, sitting in the chair by the window, I enjoy Atami’s ocean view.
It was a building view!
In solo travel, you don’t have to be considerate of anyone, so drinking alcohol while watching a movie (anime) on a tablet in the room, when I get sleepy, I lie down. Let’s sleep properly in a futon!
Journey 9. Breakfast is Also a Buffet
Going to the breakfast venue (restaurant), me sitting at the same table as last night, the 2-person women’s group sitting at the same table as last night, and the single male guest sitting at the table next to them at the same table as last night—I thought they were assigned seats! Breakfast is also a buffet style.
No “greenery”! Man food!
Thinking that this food might be the source that built my “selfish dosukoi body,” I reflect a little, but enjoyed it very deliciously!
Let’s take a closer look at Oedo Onsen Atami
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Journey 10. Moving from Atami to Odawara
Moving from Atami to Odawara takes 22 minutes on the local line (Tokaido Line). Although it’s a local line, you can sit relatively easily, so when I let my guard down thinking “If I just sit quietly, 22 minutes is nothing,” there was a section where smartphone signal didn’t reach along the way (T_T).
You weren’t sitting quietly! You were using the internet.
The paper lantern at Odawara Station is amazing. Exiting the station, I walk toward Odawara Castle.
Journey 11. Odawara Castle is Truly “Mountain Climbing”
Since it is “Odawara Castle,” a famous castle of the Hojo clan from the Sengoku period, I thought it was a top-tier impregnable castle. While looking at the scenery around the moat, my heart unintentionally felt at peace from the scene where grace stood out, but I thought one thing: it’s too big and the main gate is far! Even so, walking along the water’s edge of the moat on a flat path felt good; there was also the heat of early summer in May, but without any particular hardship, passing through the main gate, I realized…
Could it be, it’s uphill all the way?
Since I have no guts, mountain climbing is not in my travel options, but I was off guard; this is a famous Sengoku castle, of course building the castle tower on top of a mountain makes it harder to attack. However, having come this far, naturally I couldn’t turn back, so I climbed in the heat of early summer in May, came in front of the castle tower, and realized!
It’s blatantly a slope!
Thinking “It’s the long-awaited castle tower” if I finish climbing this last slope, I did my best to climb up, entered the castle tower, and as expected, realized!
At the end of climbing the stairs of a 5-story building without an elevator, there is an observation deck at the top floor of the castle tower. Are you telling me to climb 5 floors worth of stairs from here!
The Sagami Bay seen from the castle tower observation deck is wonderful. Thinking that Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s large army pushed into this Sagami Bay in large numbers during the Conquest of Hojo was a moment of sending thoughts to history.
Journey 12. A Hot Spring on the Way Back!
I ended up sweating from the Odawara Castle climb, but thinking this couldn’t be helped, as I walked toward the station thinking about eating a meal and returning, it appeared in front of my eyes as if targeted!
A super public bath is found. Odawara Ohoribata “Manyo no Yu”—as if aimed at capturing people who sweated at Odawara Castle and couldn’t help but want to take a shower and sucking them in, this exquisite timing of appearing right before my eyes is far too wonderful!
Morning in Atami, afternoon at an Odawara super public bath, entering hot springs, this Atami-Odawara solo male trip is finished! Thank you very much!
Bonus: “Atami and Odawara 1-Night 2-Day Hot Spring Travelogue” Travel Expenses
Here are the expenses for this Atami/Odawara 1-night 2-day hot spring trip.
| Item | Expense |
| “Transportation” Shinkansen Non-reserved Seat (Outbound) Tokyo → Atami | 3,740 JPY |
|---|---|
| Course meal at famous Atami shopping street shop (Sashimi, simmered alfonsino, 1 go of Japanese sake, 1 glass of beer) | 4,500 JPY |
| Atami shopping street street-eating (Grilled abalone skewer, 1 bottle of beer) | 1,500 JPY |
| Coffee at a stylish Atami cafe | 500 JPY |
| Oedo Onsen Monogatari Atami (Accommodation fee) | 10,000 JPY |
| Bathing fee, 3 glasses of lemon sour, canned beer, canned chu-hi | 2,000 JPY |
| “Transportation” Local Line (Movement) Atami → Odawara | 418 JPY |
| Odawara Castle Tower admission fee | 510 JPY |
| Odawara “Manyo no Yu” admission fee + meal cost | 6,550 JPY |
| Odawara cafe (Cake + coffee) | 1,150 JPY |
| “Transportation” Shinkansen Non-reserved Seat (Return) Odawara → Tokyo | 3,280 JPY |
| Total | 34,148 JPY |
The price for a solo male 1-night 2-day hot spring trip to Atami and Odawara was 34,148 JPY! Price-wise, I am also satisfied.
Enjoy a nice time Single Travel !
Atami 1-Night 2-Day Hot Spring Travelogue (November 2022)
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