3 days in Taketa; picture edition

I’ve promised you some picture for a while now – here they come! I’ll keep the words as few as possible.
I apologize for the low, lousy quality, but back in the day, I put camera sturdiness over picture quality, so it’s the best I can offer. Here goes!

This is from the Gotou’s shop. It’s a restaurant, and the place used to be a sentou (銭湯), a public bath.

This is from the ikebana (生花) I was taken to straight away. The man in the picture is the instructor.

A sweet young lady, also taken classes, and who is an artist, wanted to take a picture next to the instructor’s creation. The one I was given. Lookin’ fresh, aye?

Back at Gotou’s house. This is the altar of the god they held the mini-festival for. Ebisu (恵比寿).

This picture is a little over exposed. Reiko thought I should get a picture with all the Ohime-sama (お姫様), from the Hina Matsuri (Girls’ Festival).

More girls at the cafe!

One corner of the café.

A cuppa tea at the café, before being treated to lunch. Didn’t take a picture of that, though. Udon noodles.

Time skip to evening. This was what I was presented at the party!
To the left, some raw fish with Japanese mustard (fish may have been herring? I have no idea). Behind that, fried salmon, further behind that, in the porcelain pot on top of a burner is tofu. Next to the fish + mustard is Japanese potato salad. In the bigger plate/bowl is sashimi, sliced raw fish, and in the little container in front of that, soy sauce.

The tofu with accompanying sauce.

 

Tofu and sauce in each their containers.

Miso soup on the left, rice and tsukemono (pickled green stuff; don’t remember what it was).

May be hard to see, but this is a kind of citrus related to clementines. You can eat the skin, which is quite sweet, while the inside is pretty sour. First time I’ve seen these! Believe they’re called kinkan.

I was taken to “my” room; the same as I was staying in those two and a half years ago.

The smell (a good one, that is) of old wood creates a very… genuine atmosphere! The same smell is in the café.

 

So, that’s it for day one! I didn’t take enough pictures… over and out!