Monday, Oct 28
- back to zao! this time with M., and this time for a proper hike, to okama crater!!
- very cold, very beautiful, i love mountains
- tired, knees so weak after many stairs and going downhills (after the uphills) etc
- the feeling of going over a ridge and seeing an amazing view like a CRATER! just cannot be conveyed through images or even video necessarily… it’s a great feeling
- ALL YOU CAN EAT YAKITORI AND IT WAS AMAZING
shoyu ramen lunch at top of the second ropeway! 
cashews were expensive but munching on mountain made it worth 
zunda dango, L., i finally had zunda!! (ie. zunda that isn’t an ice cream shake lol) 
onigiri on the hike back lord so cold
ropeways up! 
autumn colors 🙂 
more dead trees closer to top, autumn foliage season gradually coming to end 
mountains i am cry 
found the crater!! 
crater coming down, different light, silvery! 
ugh i love mountains 
sandy red brown and the trail sign up on the ridge with the rocky shelter house somehow reminded me of ‘wild west’ and american movies because road sign looked like a cross lol 
emergency shelter in question, much trash in firepit, looked cold 
so close to station yet so far was cold and knees hated me but also sunset and pretty and mountains but man so cold!!! 
yes beautiful mountains but at this point my knees were so weak from the stairs rip 
somehow reminds me of big white/BC/canada 
ropeway down with sunset! we had surprisingly good timing 
red jizo 
waiting for 1/2 cable car down
i think first time trying the fried dango and it was yum, good choice M. 
we were going to izakaya/yakitori + karaoke, but then long hike and my knees were dead, so change plan to make food + buy cheap takeout foods from grocery store but then i saw a shabu shabu sign near our yam station stop, then realize it’s kinda far walk but we see this ALL YOU CAN EAT YAKITORI FOR LESS THAN 1500 YEN and the rest is history
there were three kinds of menus but lord ‘economy’ course was already so good. only thing i’d want from the tier up is the meatball stick with the egg, so we just got the rice with egg and used the egg for the stick instead lol
we ordered so many things, and each skewer dish came with 2 skewers… lord, it was so beautiful. sure, the drink was required, but for that price even altogether lord
ok tbh usually not big on ‘all you can eat’ because prices catch up anyway plus i’m small and don’t eat that that much to make it worth but after long hike i was hunger, tbh just wanted chicken anyway, economy course made sense, plus that price was unbelievable
things we had (non-comprehensive list)– also remember skewer dishes are two sticks!! and some things we got multiple of lol: fried sweet mochi, chicken thighs, chicken negi skewers, chicken liver, chilled tofu, caesar salad, cabbage, vinegar cucumber, karaage (this is for you, T.)!!, chicken meatball stick thing and with egg (that we took from the egg rice set), edamame, chicken wings, takoyaki, potato fries, maple syrup taro ball mochi things (way too oily sweet), cherry tomatoes, and whatever else wow just
so good
yes ok that’s enough words
(so good)
chloe eats 
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