On the eaves of the roadside, a large piece of snow suddenly loosened, then slid down and hit the ground.
White snow splashes.
Haixing was startled and glanced blankly before Naruse pulled him to the middle of the road.
"There are no cars on the road, so don't pull too far to the side."
"Ah...oh."
After leaving the hotel, a few people walked on the hot spring street in the snow valley. The surroundings were not at all as quiet as expected.
——There is only one access road and the street is less than 200 meters away. There are quite a lot of tourists.
"It looks like a tour group from Southeast Asia...they should be Thais," Morimi said, looking at the group of tourists in front of him.
Naruse glanced twice and nodded.
Hikaru Takigawa turned around and clasped his hands together.
"Savadika~Is that so?"
She smiled and said, "That's it."
After leaving the hotel and walking along the way, they had already met two or three tourist groups, all of whom spoke a language they did not understand.
A few people continued walking along the not-wide road by the river.
"It feels quite ordinary." Yue Takigawa said, "I don't know why those foreigners are so excited."
"Those tourists who come from tropical and subtropical countries have never seen such thick snow."
Morimi looked at one of the tourists in front of him who was staring at the snow on the roadside and saying something excitedly, "Although other than that, it feels like this place is really ordinary."
Starfish slowed down and walked with the two of them.
"It is like this during the day. It looks relatively...simple. But at night, when the lights turn on, it will have a dreamlike feeling."
Sen smiled and said, "Is this what the Internet says?"
"Well...after all, it's my first time here too."
After walking forward for a while, Naruse looked back at them and said, "We're at Noto House."
The three of them raised their sights. Across the river that ran through the snow valley and the hot spring street, there was a three-story hotel with a large area and an overall luxurious and retro style.
The starfish stared at it for a while.
"It really looks like the oil house in "Spirited Away"..."
Morimi also raised his head, looking fascinated.
"'Kido Sasa Gongmon', what does that mean?" Hikaru Takigawa asked, pointing to a giant standing sign in front of Noto House.
Naruse looked over, "Kido Sasa Gongmon is said to be the founder of the silver mountain. He should be the one who discovered and developed the silver mine hundreds of years ago."
"That's it."
Notoya is so famous that most tourists who come to Ginzan Hot Spring are here just for a visit. The river directly opposite the hotel and the small bridge leading to the hotel are full of people taking pictures.
"Let's take some photos too." Hikaru Takigawa said, "Right here."
The guardrails and chains by the river were already covered with snow. Several girls were huddled together with their backs to the Noto House, and Naruse was in charge of taking photos.
While he was holding his cell phone, he squatted lower and lower.
"Don't shoot us too high."
"No... there are too many people behind."
Naruse was a little helpless, so he adjusted it again and finally found an angle that would not take pictures of the tourists behind him.
Click!
"Let me see...well...it feels a bit subtle."
"There are too many tourists in the background."
Naruse had no choice, "Let's just take a stroll here first. If you want to take pictures, you'd better come back when there are fewer people."
He put away his mobile phone, "Most of the people crowded here now are tourists, and they will leave at night."
"Okay." None of them had any objections.
After squeezing across the red wooden bridge filled with tourists and taking a closer look at Notoya, Naruse turned around again. Diagonally opposite was a shop called "Edoya", which was very rare in the hot spring streets full of hotels. After the girls had seen enough, he suggested going there for a stroll.
"Okay."
When we arrived at Edoya, there were all handicrafts on display. It looked like a souvenir shop.
"There are quite a few things."
One of the shelves is filled with lucky cats, of different sizes and colors, and they all look very cute.
Shangzi walked closer and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and prepare to take pictures.
When she was about to take the photo, she suddenly came back to her senses and looked at the old lady sitting not far away, "Excuse me, can I take pictures in the store?"
The old lady was the shop owner, and she nodded with a smile.
Click!
On the shelf on the other side, there were many Zashiki Warashi. Haixing picked up one and looked at it, and then looked at the price tag on the post below. One of them costs more than 3,000 yen.
"It's so expensive..."
"Purely handmade, of course it won't be cheap." Morimi said from the side, holding a red Daruma in his hand.
"That's right..." Haixing played with it for a while and finally put it down.
She looked at the thing in Morimi's hand, "Where's this Bodhidharma?"
"One thousand and eighty yen."
"Ah, as expected, the price is cheap and the workmanship is not that good..."
"Keep your voice down."
In addition to these handicrafts, there are also many Yamagata specialties on the other side of the store.
For example, jams and juices made entirely from Yamagata local fruits, or two-packs of local rice.
"Two packs, 380 yen. They are all new rice this year. Do you want to buy one?" Naoko weighed the vacuum-packed rice in her hand and looked at Naruse.
He took it and looked at it.
"Yamagata rice... buy it back to eat or keep it as a souvenir?"
Shangzi laughed and said, "Anything is fine."
"Buy it."
We had plenty of time, so we were not in a hurry and spent more than half an hour walking around Edoya.
When paying the bill, Naruse brought over the Zashiki boy that Haisei had just spotted.
She looked at him.
"Is this it?" Naruse asked.
Only then did she confirm that he was going to give it to her. She glanced at Shangzi and nodded when she saw that she was smiling.
"Well..."
After paying the bill, Naruse took the rice and handed Zashiki Warashi to Haixing.
"Thank you..."
"Let's go shopping elsewhere."
After leaving Edoya, there is also a souvenir shop next to it, but most of them are paper sculptures.
When I saw a matryoshka doll from Zashiki Warashi, I compared the starfish with the one in my hand and felt that my own was more beautiful.
She took out her mobile phone and wanted to take a comparison photo, but the shop owner stopped her in a panic.
"Nophoto! Nophoto...s!"
Starfish looked at him blankly.
Naruse immediately walked over and pulled Haixing behind him, "Sorry." Read a book
After the shopkeeper nagged him for a long time and then walked away, Haixing asked in a low voice: "Why did he speak English just now?"
"Because he feels that if he is Japanese, he should be able to understand Japanese."
He pointed to the sign prohibiting taking photos standing next to him, "Although there are English signs below."
"..."
Starfish blushed, "I didn't see it."
"It's okay." Naruse glanced at her and smiled, "You should continue to pretend to be a foreigner to avoid being nagged."
"Well..."
"Communicate with us in English."
"...can't do it!"
A few people walked around the store for a while. Although the items in this store are not as numerous as Edoya, they can still kill some time.
"This looks pretty cute, what do you think of Haixing?" Morimi picked up a daruma and said.
Haixing glanced at the shopkeeper who was staring at him, and a smile appeared on his face, "Yes..."
Morimi looked at her, confused.
After a while, a few people left the store.
Starfish finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"There is a standing tofu shop in front of you. Do you want to go in and have something to eat?" Hikaru Takigawa pointed to the shop in front.