Day 5 "My Hotel"

This hotel is a resort.  I mean really, Japanese people come here to "get away from it all."  Which is why I wonder why all the rooms look so much like real Japanese rooms.  If you want to get away from it all why would you go to a place that kinda looks like your home.  Then again, if you have a home that looks like this you probably aren't living in Japan: 

Well being that staying in this sort of environment is a rare occurrence we decided to do a little exploring of the grounds.  This resort must have been built in a mountain cause there are cliffs and stairs everywhere.  When you go into the main lobby you are actually on the second to top floor.  To get to your room you have to go down into, what I can only guess, into the mountain all the way to sea level.  Our room looked out into a beautiful scene of the sea.  I couldn't take pictures of that though because we had to keep our windows closed and the image would be ruined by either flash, or our reflections.  After all, who wants to see our ugly mugs when you have the tranquil sight of one of the loveliest places in Japan.

On a slightly darker note here's a little tidbit I had also learned.  Did you know that the most beautiful places in Japan also have the highest rates of suicide?  It's true.  Apparently when the Japanese want to kill themselves they want to do it in the prettiest place possible.  Kind of a weird way to think when you don't care about anything and you want to end it all doesn't it?  Well, in any case because of this you can measure how beautiful a place is by how many people have killed themselves there.  I know it's kind of dark and morbid but it really does kind of put a number measure to how nice a place is.  Also there are more than enough Asians that a few committing suicide from time to time won't disrupt any major balances.

Wasn't that awful of me to say?  Yea I guess it was.  But I learned that without a lot of sympathy or shame from the teacher and I figured it's an interesting fact to share.

Here's a lovely spot.  Right next to a cliff too.  Don't you think...