We ate fancy cheeses.

We made Cornish pasties and croissants from scratch.

We watched movies both fantastically fantastic and fantastically depressing.

We conquered a mountain.

We came up with a ridiculous high school AU chronicling Sir Isaac Newton's courtship of  a very tsundere Mother Nature.

We doodled and music'd.

So never mind what I said about Hell Valley. Curiosity's only worth so much, and if I can only take ONE three-hour, 10,700 yen shinkansen ride, it's gonna be here:

Zao Fox Village in Miyagi, home to over one hundred free-roaming foxes.

"Jigokudani hotspring in Nagano Japan 001" by Yosemite.
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

So I heard about Hell Valley Monkey Park ( 何で Hell Valley と言うんですか????), the natural hot springs patronized by Japanese macaques in the colder months of winter.

I kind of want to go, but wow, it's a three-hour ride by shinkansen.