Gunma Kayabuki-no-sato: Inn's "Kaiseki" Dinner

After Onsen, it's time for famous Japanese "Kaiseki" Dinner!

"Kaiseki" from Wiki

Kaiseki (懐石) or kaiseki-ryōri (懐石料理) is a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. The term also refers to the collection of skills and techniques that allow the preparation of such meals, and is analogous to Western haute cuisine.

There are basically two kinds of traditional Japanese meal styles called kaiseki or kaiseki-ryōri. The first, where kaiseki is written as 会席 and kaiseki-ryōri as 会席料理, refers to a set menu of select food served on an individual tray (to each member of a gathering). The second, written as 懐石 and as 懐石料理, refers to the simple meal that the host of a chanoyu gathering serves to the guests before a ceremonial tea,[2] and is also known as cha-kaiseki (茶懐石).

This Inn's Kaiseki is  "会席".  :)

When we reached at the dinner venue, it was totally nostalgic...

Nostalgic Japanese dining area.

Chopsticks rest is dried fish!

It's a real one!

Grilling fish with nostalgic way.. 

Here comes a lot of dishes...

I thought they were going to grill fish in nostalgic method, but they put them in plate, so it will be cooked faster.. :)

It was really nice!

They said this fish was caught in the river near the inn. So, it's really fresh!

Grilling other stuffs.

After grilled food was all served, the staff started to keep the charcoal.

This hotpot was so nice!

Desert 1.

Desert 2.

This is another chopsticks rest come with the desert.

My son liked it a lot!

There are many nostalgic stuffs displayed there.

Food was nice.
And this place reminds me of the good old Japanese style which we, Japanese, tend to forget in modern life...

Nice place!


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Gunma Kayabuki-no-sato: Inn's Onsen (Hot Spring)

Normally we go to Onsen (Hot Spring) inn, we go and soak into Onsen many times.

So, in our case as well, we headed for Onsen before dinner.

Most of Inn's Onsen is located at the basement, so we went downstairs.

This is an Onsen map within the inn.

This monitor is showing how hot spring water is coming out into this Onsen .

One of Onsen is located outside of Inn, so we decided to go to the outside Onsen before it gets dark.

On the way to outside, we saw this picture.

This is about Japanese traditional wedding ceremony.

This inn is providing Japanese style wedding plan!

Looks like the traditional wedding is getting more popular these days.

On the way to Onsen.

Here it is!

It says "Yaku-yu. Gou-no-Yu", which means "medicated hot spring".

Onsen is believed to cure some common problem - body pain (back, neck etc), skin problem, whitening... etc.

This is inside Onsen. This is for men.

This is for women.

This is a corridor.

But, that's it!

Of course we cannot take pictures of inner side. :p

Gunma Kayabuki-no-sato: Entering the inn

We finally reached at the inn...

It's such a big estate.

But the houses are really nostalgic Japanese houses and it feels like we went to a different era.

Interior is also good-old Japanese style.

This is lobby lounge area.

Here's our welcome drinks. :)

Shiitake-mushroom tea for my mother.

Cocktail for me, although I forgot what kind of flavour. :p

My son's orange juice and Tetsubin (iron kettle).

This is our inn room.

It was very spacious!

And nostalgic...

Here's Tetsubin (iron kettle) here too!

But obviously for decoration purpose. :)

Some Japanese pastry as always in the inn.

Room key was also something Japanese cute. :)

Our room was facing the river.

When we were looking outside, we found icicle!

Long time never seen this!

Do you know what it is?

It's a mirror!

This table is...

Old-time Japanese dresser.

Yukata is placed here neatly.

Nostalgic phone which we used to have when I was a child.

Not a lot of people are using this type of phone these days.

Another surprise is that there is an corridor in our room! 

This is a typical Japanese house before!

This is a toilet door. :D

Scenery from the toilet is nice~!

Room entrance.

Very spacious.

This is the room door.

Each room has a different name on top of the room number.

Before dinner, we headed for Onsen (hot spring)!