Two days after going to Koya-san we traveled north-west to an onsen in some other mountains. It was a long trip, but reading, talking, eating, playing games and listening to music passes the time fast.

The last ride was way up into the mountains by bus.
This is the hotel/onsen where we stayed.

And this is one of the hot spring baths, surrounded by beautiful winter nature.

We had an delicious dinner. Everything so well cared for.

It snowed during the night and in the morning everything looked so pristine, fresh and new!

This is the bridge you have to cross to walk to the onsen.

What better way then to have a snowball fight in an onsen!!!

On the way back we got stuck in the snow storm. The train lost power and we were bussed to the next place where the train worked again. This was quite an adventure, but my husband missed his appointment meeting in Tokyo, which was not good at all.
But the feeling of a white Christmas was undeniable!