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      Lake Tazawa!
  Here's lake Tazawa in Akita prefecture, the first stop on my week long summer vacation. Akita is in the northern part of Japan and lake Tazawa has the distinction of being the deepest lake in Japan. I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only is the water clean and clear (unlike most lakes in Japan), but there was a nice beach as well. After years of putting up with saltwater and pools, I was dying for a swim in freshwater, I am Canadian after all. Needless to say I wasn't disappointed.  
      2005/08/11
       
Tazawa Youth Hostel...      
  I met some interesting people in the youth hostels I stayed at. One of the guys (in the middle) even had a car and he drove me and a few others around Northern Japan for a while, taking in some sites that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to go to alone. We went to a few onsens, (see below) as well as Lake Towada, another beautiful lake, (see pg. 22).  
2005/08/11      
       
      Nyuto Onsen...
  Back to onsens again. Actually the above guys and I went to about four onsens on this trip, but Nyuto onsen was the most memorable for two reasons. One was the colour of the water which you can see is a chalky white ('nyu' means 'milk'), and the other is the fact that it was a mixed onsen, meaning that men and women bathe together (naked of course), which apparently is pretty popular in the country-side. Well there were about 8 guys but zero women came to join us. At first I was relieved... then later on disppointed....  
      2005/08/12
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