Japan: February 2026: Day 6: Yudanaka

Japan

Feb 2026: Day 6: Yudanaka

Breakfast at Yudanaka Yumoto.

If you're in the room all day, they leave this for you.

Laudromat in town.

Laundry supplies.

Convert bills to coins for the laundry machines.

Instructions. Bring Google Translate.

Oden at nearby cafe.

And sukiyaki. Inside.

Inside.

Cafe Yamaboushi.

Along the Yomase River.

Laundromat.

Looking west/northwest.

Yudanaka isn't tiny, but it's not very big either.

Little houses and kei cars.

Cigarettes and cocktails from vending machines.

The red light district in Yudanaka uses green signs.

The red light district.

Yudanaka Station.

Trains are not that often here, happened to catch one as I was taking pictures.

More hotels.

View as you climb away from the river and up towards Yudanaka Yumoto.

Public toilet down there somewhere.

Hotel Yoroduya, right across the street.

Snacks from Lawsons.

Chicken gizzards from D-LINE were excellent. Inside.

Inside.

Pork belly skewers.

Smoked salmon was... frozen?

Sirloin was a very, very long wait, over 90 minutes after we arrived.

Proper egg salad sandwich.

Took today as a rest day, since six days of skiing in a row was going to be ambitious. Explored the little town of Yudanaka, which actually isn't all that small, with probably at least a half-dozen (if not more) hotels and ryokans, its own red light (aka green sign) district, and a decent smattering of restaurants.

Cafe Yamaboushi was a cute and tasty place for sukiyaki and oden, a bit odd in that you wore shoes inside, and was overall a solid meal, much more pleasant than D-LINE was for dinner. Not that D-LINE (which is more of an izakaya) is bad, but rather D-LINE suffered from the overly ambitious menu of most restaurants in Yudanaka, and as a result our meal took over 1.5 hours (!) to fully arrive. Ouch.W Would have been better off going to Lawson for packaged food...