Today started with a sunrise over the sea. Then a fairly slow packing away of everything until the tents dried out. And we drank coffee.

We have been finding it really hard to get ride of our rubbish. There are no bins available in Japan. There are some cages near people’s houses which we have seen rubbish in so we thought that our rubbish worries were over when we found a basket to put rubbish in. But after we thought we were in the clear, climbing a small hill a car got near to us and started beeping a lot, then pulled over. Somebody got out seemed very angry and gave us back the rubbish. We said sorry and carried on cycling.

Cycling today wasn’t too nice mainly through an urban sprawling city of car dealerships and strip development. Loads of cars. There were a few nice stretches and it got nicer during the day.

Super market lunch, and a better sort out of our rubbish as in this area they seem to have places at supermarket to get ride of the plastic trays that  the pre made lunches we buy come in.  Once this was done the rubbish bag was small enough to take to a convenience store and put on their bin. When we were cycling here in 2011 the  bins have moved inside the stores from outside and there don’t seem to be as many.

Cycling into the hills was good. Then we got to a campsite from their website and we found out you had to check in at the outdoor shop at the local onsen. We did this and were told the campsite was free.

The outdoor shop had lots of cool stuff.

There are a couple of other people staying at the campsite. But they are sort of in the other half of it.

Curry and rice for dinner while we charged our stuff and watch Peepshow. Sort river side walk down to the onsen to get clean and soak then back for another episode before bed.

Onsen was a good one. Big lots of different pools a well hot one, a normal one, a cold pool, outdoor pool with sort of views of the train line. And one you walk around it which was cooler but not too cold. 

GEAR UPDATE: despite us not really replacing anything after using it for every day back in 2011 me for 6 months and Cliff for a year. All seems to be going okay. Bike had a couple of minor problems yesterday Cliff rear mud guard stays broke. A few zip ties fixed it.

Then my chain fell off and got stuck between the cassette frame. Had to take the wheel off to get it unstuck then it seemed fine.