Izu Travel Guide:Shirahama Shrine,Ginsui Village,Ginsuiso hotel providing "One ​​stay, two meals"

Every time I go to Japan, I want to explore a niche City, I chose Izu for this Trip.This map shows the distance from Tokyo to Izu. The peninsula where Izu is located is the Izu Peninsula.

Izu is located on the Izu Peninsula in the eastern part of Shizuoka Prefecture and the Izu Islands in Tokyo.

Izu, the most popular impression about this place name may come from Kawabata Yasunari’s "The Dancing Girl of Izu". There is another reason why I am deeply impressed by it. Its Roman name IZU, when three English letters are combined together, it has a kind of Graphic beauty.
Our trip to Izu this time mainly visited the Shirahama Shrine in Shimoda City, and then went to Inatori's Ginsuiso Soak in the hot springs. Izu is not as famous as Hakone as a hot spring resort (Hakone is also on the map), so go visit it while it is still a niche destination and not many people have discovered it!

Let’s start a day and night Journey.
Departing from Shinagawa Station in Tokyo at noon on the first day, take the Shinkansen. First, check the route to Izu on the map software available in Japan. It will provide very detailed departure time and other information. (If you don’t know how to use the machine to buy tickets, just use the manual ticket buying channel)
The Shinkansen does not use the left and right seats to select seats, but usesSea.Side And Fuji.Side, a very romantic expression, the other side of the sea and the other side of the mountain, the mountain is Mount Fuji. If you go to Izu, you can choose Sea.Side and watch the beautiful sea all the way.
The one that can be reached by the Shinkansen is Atami City (also on the map). Next we have to transfer to JR. At Atami Station we bought  rail lunch boxes.How can we not buy them when taking a train in Japan? They are very famous and very popular. Here are the bento boxes that are unique to the location of the station. The silver-white sashimi in the picture below is their local specialty, and it tastes really delicious.
You can bring it to the train to eat, but because the bento was so delicious and we were very hungry, we ate it all while waiting for the train.

There are many levels of JR in Izu, including Shinkansen, express, ordinary, etc. We took the Shinkansen class train, and the JR train was also very beautiful. It even opened part of the skylight, allowing us to have closer contact with nature.

You can go to the convenience store to buy some snacks the day before and eat them on the train. A pleasant journey needs to be accompanied by beautiful scenery and delicious food.

Arrive at Kyushimoda Station. Since there are many taxis at the station, you can take a taxi directly to Shirahama Shrine. At this time, the atmosphere in rural Japan was very strong, and there were almost no foreigners.
Shirahama Shrine is empty.

Shirahama ShrineIt is said to be very effective in praying for a good marriage , but what makes it famous is the rocks on the coast of Shirahama next to the shrine. The torii that stands alone, I call it "the loneliest torii in the world".

Torii refers to an auxiliary building of a Japanese shrine similar to an archway. It represents the entrance to the divine realm and is used to distinguish the divine realm where gods live from the ones where humans live. Secular world. The existence of the torii is to remind visitors that stepping into the torii means entering the divine realm, and all subsequent behaviors should be paid special attention to.

I have been to many shrines, such as Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine in Kyoto, which is famous for its Thousand Torii Gates (the Hollywood movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" was also filmed there), but this is the first time I have visited a Torii Gate, or Said this kind of natural scenery is shocking.

When I stood on the rocks, in front of the torii gate, there was almost no one around. Listening to the sound of wind and waves coming one by one, I felt ''The world between life and heaven, Suddenly it was as vast and lonely as a Traveler."
The sea of ​​Izu seems to connect many seas. In front of it, I think of many coasts, many afternoons, many pasts, and many futures.The end of the world at this time is only a short distance away.

Of course, even if you can’t feel this kind of soul cleansing together, Shirahama Coast is also very suitable for taking pictures.

You can only use it at the shrine after leaving Shirahama Shrine. There is a bus stop at the door, but there is no taxi on the road. Before entering the shrine to take pictures, be sure to check the bus timetable at the door. The bus usually runs every half hour, but many buses are canceled on non-school days. If you happen to miss one, it is possible to wait for an hour.The bus going to the station also drove along the sea. There were only a few local old people on the bus. I spent a warm afternoon with them.

Next, I have to take the JR to Ginsui Village in Inatori. There are many hot spring hotels in Inatori, and we chose Ginsuiso, which is relatively famous in China. There is a hotel car shuttle between the hot spring hotel and the station, but if you go from the station, you can also take a taxi.
Put some in the hotel lobby. In the picture below I am holding two small boxes which are gifts from the hotel.

After checking in, you can go to the suite. The suite is Japanese You have to take off your shoes and get on the tatami when you enter the door. I like it very much because there are two rooms (two beds in each room) and a large living room. It is quite suitable for four friends to travel, although there are only two of us.

A corner of one of the rooms.There is an open-air bath on the balcony, with hot springs running 24 hours a day. Take a dip in the hot springs while admiring the cool sea of ​​Izu.
Have a quick dip in the afternoon, and you can also go out of your room to have afternoon tea provided by the hotel.

The next thing I want to focus on is the "One ​​stay, two meals" provided by the hot spring trip. One night's stay, provided Dinner that day and breakfast the next day.
We had kaiseki cuisine that night. The first course——

The fresh raw abalone in the pink lid is waiting to be cooked and will soon be turned into a dish.

The second course is also my favorite. I love eating sashimi. It is worthy of Izu by the sea. It is particularly delicious.
Eating three hundred slices of raw fish every day, he always came to Izu as a guest.

The next few dishes include wagyu beef, shrimp, and of course cooked abalone.

The last dish is Izu Inatori’s specialty kineye sea bream! To be honest, we were already very full, but everyone around us left after eating very clean, so we couldn't make an exception, so we ate as much as possible.

After dinner, I returned to the room and soaked in the hot spring for a while, and then explored the entire hotel. There are many fun facilities on the basement floor, where you can play table tennis and drums. There are also public hot springs on several floors, but we didn't go there.
Then there is breakfast the next day, which is a buffet! Because I love exploring Japanese convenience stores, I rarely eat hotel buffet breakfasts in Japan. It was a good experience at Yinshuizhuang.

The buffet breakfast plate has six small grids, and we all wore Japanese bathrobes provided by the hotel. Pay attention to the plate in the lower right corner. It contains raw tuna. I picked it up casually, but when I tasted it, it was so delicious.
Friends who love sashimi will definitely enjoy it when they come to Izu! !
Guess how many egg-related dishes there are in my six small cells? !

After breakfast, go back to the room to rest and continue to soak in the hot springs. When it was time to check out, we went to the front desk and waited for the hotel car to take us to the station. It was impossible to get a taxi at the hotel entrance.
This is how the perfect trip to Izu ends.
Finally, let’s post a picture of the distance from Shirahama Shrine to Inatori Ginsuiso (by car).
I really like this experience of taking the Shinkansen and Shinkansen JR in Japan. Not only does every seat have a charging station. And because trains are divided into seated tickets and unseated tickets. Different colors of lights will light up in the seats where people are already sitting, reserved seats and seats where you can sit at will, which is very easy to identify.

See you in Tokyo next time!