Folk Tales at Sarugakyo

After the fruit extravaganza, we stopped in for a quick visit to the at the Sarugakyo Hotel (猿ヶ京ホテル), located in the Northern part of Minakami right next to lake Akaya (赤谷湖). The hotel's website is only in Japanese.

Views from around the hotel 

The main reason we stopped in was to hear the folktales by a master story teller. Given my limited Japanese ability, the stories were very hard to understand, but after the performance we were each given a book with the transcription of the stories in Japanese.