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After leaving Narita City on May 16 our first stop was a three night's stay at Naruko Onsen, some three hours north of Tokyo by train. Our ryokan had two public indoor onsens (one for men, one for women) and one private outdoor onsen (which you reserved in half hour increments, so both of us could use it together); our room also contained a hinoki (cypress wood) o-furo, so we weren't short of options for a good soak.
During our stay at Naruko Onsen, we saw the Kokeshi Doll Museum on May 17 (when it was raining all day), and Sendai, Matsushima & Matsushima Bay on May 18 (when we had great sunny weather all day). In addition, we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary on May 16 (which also happened to be the only day in which Jane had Japanese food that she did not care for -- salmon stomach).
Naruko Onsen
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Every morning about ten minutes before we were to be served breakfast in our room, an older gentleman would knock on our door, come into our room, and put away the bedding we had slept on. This allowed the large low table (aka chabudai) and accompanying chairs (aka zaisu) to once again take their places in the middle of the room, on which we would be served breakfast.
Note that in this picture, you can see part of the balcony off to the right, which gave us a beautiful view of the mountains behind our ryokan.
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