平成1年8月13日 (月)

    Dateline: Sunday August 13, 1989

    • Write letters.
    • To Beppu Spa Beach.
    • Shop Tokiwa.
    • Eat lunch.
    • Shop Tokiwa.
    • Amy [in Hita] calls and invites us to visit next weekend.

    Accounts

    ¥540 train
    Kamegawa-Beppu-Kamegawa
    ¥1110 Restaurant: lunch with JQS
    ¥500 Restaurant: beer
    ¥1000 mss: black, cotton shorts
    ¥30 consumption tax
    ¥3180 Total

    tag on black shorts
    Tag from the black 100% cotton shorts I bought at Tokiwa for ¥1000.

    Notes from 2009

    I take JQS to the little strip of sand called Spa Beach. The water is shallow but neither the water nor the beach seems very clean or inviting. The view of Beppu Bay is obscured by a large concrete breakwaters. Although Beppu is a seaside resort, most of attraction is inland in the onsen [hot springs], not the seaside. If I remember correctly, this is the first and last time we go to the beach. During the year, we frequently biked along the beach but we never went back in the water.

    Notes from 2019

    When I Google this now, the name of the beach and park is Matogahama Park. Some really nice photos of it on Google…nicer than I remember it being in 1989.
    Matogahama Park