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The hot water that fills the Taisho Jiogku marsh sometimes drains away. The new hot water that floods into the marsh after this is clear at first, and then it gradually changes color to blue, white, pink, gray and black.
This process is due to the changes in the ingraedients dissovbled in the hot water.
This monument is to a tanka sung in the autumn of around 1930 by a local tanka poet Kazuko kuribayashi.
The tanka tells ofa sialboat on the Pacific Ocean that she glimpsed through the colored leaves on the trees
Bear farm and the world's most silly chair lift a gigantic mistake that cost me 200Y, I took the lift below the parking lot, thinking it was the excellent value cable cart, but it only goes as far as the parking lots. the bear farm also sounds like a tourist trap, after the 200Y mistake, I tried to avoid the 2000Y mistake (but I haven't been there, so I can't say) to be fair the cashier at the chair did warn me about the mistake I was going to make, he even point out at the map where the chair is going, but I was too embarassed to change my mind at that time.