Amagase

Our first night at a Ryokan is here! It is in the middle of nowhere, and extremely nice. I didn't get photos of the grounds, but I plan to tomorrow, as they are definitely worthy of it.

After a monorail, train, shinkansen, train, and a bus (graciously driven by our hosts), we arrived.

 The last train was really old-styled, it had wooden floors.

An old-fashioned firetruck. Not really relevant, but I thought it was cool.

A river runs next to the train station we arrived at. Note the stone baths on the right. We tried to figure out how to get down there, but the only way we saw was locked, and the lock was infested with spiders, so it is unlikely they are still in use.

Our hosts were very gracious, and did several nice things for us; they drove a bus down to pick us up from the train station, they upgraded us from a single room to two rooms, and were nice enough to give us a thorough explanation of our accommodations. It is an old-fashioned establishment, with a bunch of customs surrounding when you should and should not wear shoes and slippers,  which Onsen (hot spring baths) require a reservation, and when you would like your meals (they do full-service meals, with ~9 courses, so they expect you to be punctual). They were even able to accommodate the two vegetarians among us.

I don't have good photos of the grounds yet, so I will show a few sample images from our rooms 

Our private open air bath. Incredibly nice view.

We booked two reservation-only Onsen; they had a view of the river, which was nice enough to warrant me wearing glasses into the bath. For decency reasons, I did not bring a camera.

I will also show a few sample images of our meals (both vegetarian and non-)

Appetizers

Ingredients to be added to a broth with Tofu.

Soup, vegetarian sashimi, and Soba noodles.

Dessert

I plan to get photos of the ridiculously nice area around here tomorrow, and to take at least 2 more baths before we leave.