Scenery 101: Kanazawa Special: Kaga Onsen Part 1

So a little detour outside Kanazawa led me to Kaga Onsen, a famous hot spring resort about 45 minutes by train from Kanazawa town.

The key attractions:

Souvenir shops!!

And, wait for it, the MAIN souvenir shop!!

Here's another picture of the MAIN souvenir shop. It has a clock tower and a foot bath behind the clock tower too, if anyone feels like doing anything other than shopping.

And in front of the MAIN souvenir shop, there is a public bath house (in the sense that anyone can enter if they cough up some cash). And in front of the public bath house, there is a fountain of pure unadultered hot spring water. At a scalding 65 degrees Celsius, this water is unsuitable for contact with human flesh, but you are encouraged to buy some eggs from the public bath house to simmer for anywhere between 40 mins to an hour to get hot sulphur laced eggs which are meant to prolong your life. I guess what doesn't kill you technically prolongs your life.