Up to Obama - Beautiful Obama, Robby rooms, and some countryside

We had arrived in Obama and went straight to our hotel.  Yup, this is Obama-

They had asked if we wanted a free upgrade on our room.  Of course we said yes!  Instead of the big suite we had pictured in our heads, they gave us a room with THREE beds!  Interesting.....

 

However, it did have a great view-

 The town is pretty tiny but has a pretty good drinking night life for it's size.  There are two main drinking roads near the station that seemed dead but every place we wanted to go in was packed.  I suppose that is what happens when establishments only seat five.

Most of the place is pretty new but this place stuck out like a sore thumb-

Oops!

We settled on an izakaya that had some seats open and dug into the local offerings.  As Obama is a fishing village, the fish was quite fresh-

After eating and drinking too much, and me running around the town to find an ATM that would work, we paid our bill and went for a walk.  Here is a hot spring foot bath near the beach.  Later in the night, around 3am, a man was actually using it-

Strange item on top of a vending machine-

Back in the hotel elevator, we noticed they had a robby chapel....

And robby lounge-

The following morning we got up early, went for a beautiful swim in the ocean, tried to find some caves and saw a typical, hideous car dashboard-

 It was time to head back but we went took a little detour along the coast which afforded us some more time at the beach. The beaches up here were gorgeous and puts the popular ones to shame.  Too bad I didn't the camera didn't work or something.  Use your imagination I guess.

Going back inland we found a waterfall-

On a dead end road that went forever and obviously cost a crap load of money was this-

Further inland we stopped for lunch at a road station.  This quasi bosozoku looking bike was awesome-

Swimming in a river was the order of the day and Yukino somehow got us to a good place to do so.  Yeah, half of it is concrete lined but that part and the more natural area downstream were lovely to swim in.  A cute older couple even found the area pleasant to swim in-

The view to the other side-

We got back and went to my friends restaurant that had this nice orchid protected from the rain-

The end :)