Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 131 Foreigners

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On the eaves by the roadside, a large piece of snow suddenly loosened, then slid down and hit the ground.

Snow splashes.

Starfish was taken aback, glanced blankly, and was pulled towards the middle of the road by Naruse.

"There are no cars on the road, so don't pull too far."

"Ah... oh."

After leaving the hotel, a few people walked on the hot spring street in the snow valley, and the surroundings were not as quiet as expected.

——On the street with only one passage and less than 200 meters, there are a lot of tourists.

"It looks like a sightseeing group from Southeast Asia...it should be Thai." Mori said, looking at a group of tourists in front of him.

Naruse took a look, then nodded.

Hikaru Takikawa turned around and clasped his hands together.

"Sawadika~ Is that so?"

She smiled. "That's it."

Leaving the hotel and walking all the way, they have met two or three tourist groups, all speaking in a language they don't understand.

Along the not wide road by the river, several people continued to walk forward.

"It feels quite ordinary." Takikawa Tsuki said, "I don't know why those foreigners are so excited."

"Those tourists who come from tropical and subtropical countries have never seen such thick snow."

Senjian looked at one of the tourists in front of him who was staring at the snow on the side of the road and said something excitedly, "Although other than that, it feels like this place is really ordinary."

Starfish slowed down and walked with the two of them.

"It's like this during the day, it looks more... plain. But at night, when the lights are on, it will have a dreamlike feeling."

Sen Jian smiled, "Is that what it says on the Internet?"

"Well...after all, it's my first time here."

After walking a little further, Naruse looked back at them, "It's Notoya."

The three of them raised their eyes, and across the small river that runs through the snow valley and the hot spring street, there is a three-story hotel that occupies a large area, and the overall style is luxurious and retro.

Starfish stared intently for a while.

"It's really like the oil house in "Spirited Away"..."

Morimi also raised his head, watching intently.

"'Kido Sasakumon', what does that mean?" Hikaru Takikawa asked, pointing to a giant standing sign in front of Notoya's gate.

Naruse looked over, "Kido Sasakumon is said to be the ancestor of silver mine development, he should be the one who discovered and developed silver mines hundreds of years ago."

"I see."

Notoya is too famous. Most of the tourists who come to Ginzan Onsen come here for a visit. The river directly opposite the hotel and the small bridge leading to the hotel are full of people taking pictures.

"Let's take a few photos too." Takikawa said, "It's here."

The guardrails and iron chains by the river were already covered with snow. Several girls huddled together with their backs to Noto House, and Naruse was in charge of taking pictures.

And he held the phone, squatting lower and lower.

"Don't shoot us too high."

"No... there are too many people behind."

Naruse was a little helpless, and adjusted again, and finally found an angle that would not capture the tourists behind him.

Click!

"Let me see... well... it feels a little subtle."

"Too many tourists in the background."

Naruse couldn't help it either, "Stroll around here first, if you want to take pictures, come here when there are fewer people."

He put away his mobile phone, "The people crowded here are basically tourists, and they will leave at night."

"Okay." Several people had no objection.

Squeezing across the red wooden bridge full of tourists, and having a close look at Notoya, Naruse turned his head again. Diagonally opposite was a shop called "Edoya", which is very rare in the hot spring street full of hotels.

When the girls had seen enough of it, he proposed to go there for a stroll.

"Okay."

When I came to Edo House, there were some handicrafts inside, and it looked like a souvenir shop.

"There are quite a few things."

One of the shelves is full of lucky cats in different sizes and colors, all of which are very cute.

Shangzi approached and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but took out his mobile phone, ready to take pictures.

When she was about to take pictures, she suddenly came back to her senses and looked at the old woman sitting not far away, "Excuse me, can I take pictures in the store?"

The old lady is the shopkeeper, she nodded with a smile.

Click!

On the shelf on the other side, there were many Zashiki Warehouses. Hai Xing picked up one and looked at it, and then looked at the price tag on the post below. One cost more than 3000 yen.

"so expensive……"

"It's handmade, of course it won't be cheap." Mori Jian said aside, holding a red Dharma in his hand.

"That's right..." Hai Xing played with it for a while, but let it go.

She looked at the things in Senjian's hand, "Where's this Bodhidharma?"

"One thousand and eighty yen."

"Ah, the price is really cheap, and the workmanship is not so good..."

"Be quiet."

In addition to these handicrafts, there are many Yamagata specialties on the other side of the shop.

For example, jams and juices made entirely from local Yamagata fruits, or local rice in two packs.

"Two packs, 380 yen, all this year's new rice, do you want to buy one?" Shangzi weighed the vacuum-packed rice in his hand, and looked at Naruse.

He took it and looked at it.

"Is it the rice from Yamagata... buy it and eat it or keep it as a souvenir?"

Shangzi laughed, "Anything is fine."

"buy it."

There was plenty of time, and the few people were not in a hurry, and walked around Edo House for more than half an hour.

When paying the bill, Naruse also brought over the Zashiki-douji that Haixing had taken a fancy to just now.

She looked at him.

"Is this it?" Naruse asked.

Only then did she confirm that he was going to give it to her. She glanced at Shangzi, saw her smiling, and nodded.

"Um……"

After paying the bill, Naruse took the rice and handed Zashiki-douji to Haixing.

"thanks……"

"Let's go shopping elsewhere."

Coming out of Edo House, there is also a souvenir shop next to it, but most of them are paper and plastic works.

Seeing a matryoshka of Zashiki Warji, Hai Xing compared it with the one in his hand, and felt that his own was better.

She took out her mobile phone and wanted to take a photo for comparison, but was stopped by the shopkeeper in a panic.

"No photo! No photo...s!"

Starfish looked at him blankly.

Naruse immediately came over and pulled Hai Xing behind him, "Sorry."

After the shopkeeper nagged him for a long time before walking away, Hai Xing asked in a low voice, "Why did he speak English just now?"

"Because he thinks that if he is Japanese, he should be able to understand Japanese."

He pointed to the sign next to it that prohibits taking pictures, "Although there are also English labels below."

"..."

Starfish blushed, "I didn't see it."

"It's okay." Naruse glanced at her and smiled again, "You should continue to pretend to be a foreigner, so as not to be nagged."

"Um……"

"Communicate with us in English too."

"...I can't do it!"

A few people wandered around the store for a while. Although there are not as many items in this store as there are Edoya, it can kill some time.

"This one looks cute too, what does Haixing think?" Mori Jian picked up a Dharma and said.

Starfish stared at her shopkeeper, with a smile on her face, "Yes..."

Sen Jian looked at her, not knowing why.

After a while, several people left the store.

Starfish finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"There is a standing food tofu shop in front, do you want to go in and eat something?" Takikawa pointed to the shop in front.

She immediately responded, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)