Takebe International Villa ...

Way back in December my friends and I decided to spend the weekend at one of the International Villas in the Okayama prefecture (a prefecture is kind of like a county back home). In our prefecture we have 5 different International Villas that were built by the city to attract international tourists. They are kind of hostels in that you rent by the room in a huge house & share communal spaces like the kitchen, laundry room, and TV room. We decided to opt for a low key weekend of R&R so we booked the Takebe International Villa for a Saturday night.

I was pretty excited at the thought of relaxing all weekend.

The villa had two buildings and an onsen. We rented the building on the left.

The inside was nice & we learned that we would be the only people in our house for the night.

The inside of the villa looked like so:

Each bedroom had it's own bathroom, if that's what you want to call it.

This is a picture of the how the bathroom converted from just a sink

to the toilet and a shower. You had to pull the sink out from the wall to

expose the toilet, which was kind of strange. And if you looked up there was a

shower head, although none of us were brave enough to try it.

And the view from the villa looked like so:

I felt like we were out in the middle of nowhere. It was quite, the scenery was great, the weather was good. It was kind of like camping back home, minus the tent. We all pitched in to cook dinner, we exchanged Christmas presents (yes, that is how long ago this was), and then went onsening.

The onsen from the outside. If you remember exactly

what an onsen is then, obviously you know I

can't take pictures of the inside.

But there were lots of signs & rules posted.

No co-ed onsening in Takebe.

We survived our first relaxing weekend at the villa. One down, four to go.

xoxo