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Beppu/Oita: Onsen city

i wish i can go onsen right now, im in my office working, it is 14 Deg, it doesnt sound cold, maybe no heater is giving me false perception

so ya, went to so-called las vegas of japan according to wiki, and wiki is always right, except i stayed at the kannawa onsen, not beppu onsen, and really, theres like 6 more famous onsen area, all 8 makes the super onsen transformer travel spot. Really i didnt know whats there to do, and i booked it pretty last minute, and its (apparently) onsen season now all like 48545*+z% hotel rooms are full, so i just took whateva is avail within budget. By the Kannawa onsen theres the Jigoku (地獄) meguri, where you see these 8 funky onsen for 400yen each, which is totally a rip off, so you buy the package tickets for 2000, and remember to use tourist coupon to save 10% ;p to make you feel like you got your moneys worth at each spot, they have some extra stuff to look at other than the 80 – 100 deg pond, one of them had 122 crocodiles (apparently the burningness environment is makes it a good habitat), another had a zoo where theres monkeys/elephant/flamingoes/llama/hippo/condor (i never actually seen one of those, they are freakin massive, like half of my height atleast), one of them is red – the bloody pond hell, another is super blue – the ocean hell, one of them makes so much mist i almost ran into a cute girl – the mountain hell (actually that didnt happen, but it could!), and like one thats super muddy bubbly, another shoots out spring every 25 min or so etc… anyway, it rained all day so it was not so cool to walk around, near the end just went to an onsen around the area with open air onsen, its awesome, its where you bath outside and check out sceneries and possibly more, and then went back to the ryokan, and they gave us pretty good food, i love jap ryokan food, then i went to the open air onsen at night, that was sweet too, they need to make some onsen back home, yes everyone is n3kk1d in there (or have small towel, girls get to use big towels to wrap around them), as long as you dont look, they wont look, beside, sometimes theres mixed bath pond too

then next day morning, left to go oita, on the way stopped at takazaki mountain zoo, or the monkey mountain, theres literally hundreds (theres 1200+ i think) monkeys running around around you, scratching each other monkeys back, and fight to get food when its feeding time, oita city is pretty boring, took a walk for about 2 hrs, ate lunch, and then ended up going to sing k for 3 hrs to kill time, at during lunch theres was a special on beppu and showed all these other cool stuff to do, like getting buried in the sand, gg

btw i read on digg that ps3 got sold for ten of thousands up to hundred thousand yens (actually i just found one thats 160k = 16000 cdn, rest avg around $900 – $2000 cdn), and then i read another that said some dood somehow got his hands on 100 ps3s… maybe i should go line up, few days ago

*added* i think im pretty behind on movies here, casino royale is opening in dec! but wow man, i just saw the movie trailer for DOA, its MK all over, with white girls, its supposed to be 3 asian and 2 white, get it right!