Kinosaki Onsen - Day 3

The third day at Kinosaki Onsen started with a nice big breakfast. I decided to try out the western style breakfast. They even brought in a toaster oven for me to toast my bread in. You get one roll which is made with onsen water, although I couldn't taste the difference. =P

Inside Sam's nabe

After breakfast we made our way to Kinosaki Marine Park. It was a fairly short bus ride (about 10minutes) from Kinosaki onsen station. The weather was pretty miserable and rainy as a typhoon was going past. Most of the marine park was indoor which was great! I really enjoyed this marine park, and would have to have been one of the best aquarium type things I've been to. The glass on the displays were clean, they had some cool aquatic life and lots of shows, which is a big thumbs up for me. It also had a pair of walruses! First real walrus I've seen not on tv. Sorry in advance for the bad pics with the glass reflections. They also had this fishing area where you could fish for mackeral to eat (didn't take a photo =( ). You could take them up to this restaurant and they would gut and tempura them for you!

This salamander was just a little shorter than I am with a length of 1.5m and weighing 37.4kg.

Maybe it just had a meal?

Not really sure what these are but only a small segment of them sticks out of the sand

Another thing that they did at this marine park is penguin walks! They would take the penguins for a short walk. The staff would move people to the sides and let the penguins walk through the middle. They are apparently very bad at going down the stairs. It was really cool to see the penguins up so close.

You can't see how high this dolphin jumped but it was really high!

Walrus is doing sit ups

My awesome husband with this super fluffy cute seal, which I regret not buying.

Sam loved these little guys! They would squeak when you squeezed them so Sam would stand there squeezing a hole bunch of them.

Went back to the ryokan afterwards for a warming bath or two before another spectacular dinner. It had just passed crab season in Japan. Kinosaki is famous for it's crab, so I was quite surprised to get some for dinner on our third night. It did not disappoint!

Sam's sushi plate.

Fish and bamboo in some super tasty broth.

Braised beef.

Chawanmushi. Num num num..

Cheese miso fondue. Surprisingly good!