Today is our three year anniversary! Happy anniversary Shannon! To celebrate, kind of, we went to Fukuoka aquarium also known as Marine World. We moved by train and arrived at the virtually empty Marine World, which was a refreshing change from Osaka aquarium and basically everywhere else in Japan. The aquarium was quite large and they had a good variety of marine life on display. At 1pm we caught the dolphin and sea lion show which was entertaining and impressi...

Today we decided to relive some of our time in Beppu by starting the morning off with a bath! The hostel has a public bath room, separate for men and women, and both the private showers were occupied so we thought "eh, let's do it". Unfortunately both of our baths were kind of cold so it didn't have quite the same appeal as an onsen. After dressing we took the subway a couple of stops away to a big park called Ohori Koen. We strolled around the big pond there an...

This was our last morning in Beppu so after we checked out of Happy Neko we decided to leave our bags there for a bit and go have one last soak in the onsen. We slooped up to the blue water onsen and purchased our tickets for the public bath. We gave ourselves a bit of extra time this visit and agreed to meet up in an hour. This onsen was significantly less busy than the one from last night so for the hour I had the whole outdoor onsen to myself. It was lovely ...