Asamushi onsen cleared on our leaving day but was deceptively icy on the morning run using the smaller roads north, passing several scallop sellers. With “mushi” in its name (steaming), eggs could, we’d heard, be cooked up at the local health-giving drinkable water spring and water bath. A helpful local was keen to share his experience of it, noting fifteen minutes was the ideal cooking time, and the virtues of the mineral rich tepid spring water that flowed beside. Tentatively, we drank, and so far we remain well, or “genki de”. Taking another vantage point of the town above a shrine, we hopped on the train after midday to go a short distance back to Aomori, to be based there for a few nights. Hirosaki would be within reach here, so we made sure before we
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