Scenes from Atagawa Onsen

Yokosuka Mike

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Atagawa Onsen is a seaside hot spring resort town on the east coast of Izu peninsula in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan.
My wife and I recently spent 3 days in Atagawa and these are some of the pictures I took while we were there.

All the best,
Mike
 
Watching the sunrise from our hotel room​
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Fujifilm X-T2 camera
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f4 lens
Izu Atagawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
May 2024​
 
After breakfast my wife took a train to Shimoda (south of Atagawa) to visit a museum (photography isn't her thing) and I grabed my gear and walked to the far end of town and started taking pictures.

Atagawa coast line​
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Fujifilm X-T2 camera
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f4 lens
Izu Atagawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
May 2024​
 
The entrance to the road on the left side was blocked off and had "do not enter" signs posted. I figured access was blocked to vehicles not pedestrians so I followed it for as far as I could. Later I saw a couple of joggers on the same road. Maybe we're all trespassers or maybe we're not.

Scenes from Atagawa Onsen​
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Fujifilm X-T2 camera
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f4 lens
Izu Atagawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - May 2024​
 
When I was taking this picture a man suddenly appeared (seemingly out of nowhere) and said “I see we share the same hobby of photography”. There I was with my camera on a tripod and there he was with only an iPhone in his hand. I smiled and said “it looks like you're packing a bit lightly”. He smiled and said he was into astrophotography and all his gear was back in his hotel room. It turned out that he was an American originally from Buffalo NY, who had recently retired from a company in Tokyo and was now living in Yokohama (small world). He also explained that this isolated area of Atagawa was a well known dark spot good for astrophotography. He’d done his “serious” photography the night before. We had a friendly and interesting conversation for about 20 minutes and then parted ways.

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Fujifilm X-T2 camera
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f4 lens
Izu Atagawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - May 2024​
 
JeffS7444 said:
Having watched many a Japanese travel show, I'm convinced that the essence of Japanese travel revolves around (1) dining and (2) bathing. 😀
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Having duly noted Mike's beautiful beach images, I also saw there was nobody (other than the photographer) on any of those beaches.

But then it is May in the northern hemisphere. Unlike where I hang out - Surabaya in Indonesia - where the climate is now so hot, I could be frying my kulit on a beach or at a pool any day of the year. With my well-worn, well-used Fuji XE2 in my backpack, of course.

Once again, most excellent photography by the OP as always, and interesting commentary too.
 
Izu Atagawa Onsen Hotel "Cetus Royal" (center of the picture)
Our room was on the 6th floor, ride side corner
Free happy hour starts at 3:00pm 🙂​
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Fujifilm X-T2 camera
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f4 lens
Izu Atagawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - May 2024​
 
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