Day 1

7:00am Depart Shibuya
9:00am Arrive first service area at Yokokawa 橫川

This is remen in a can!

This is oden in a can!

It's 9am...  How about curry cutlet??

Yeap! She really wanted to rob a bank...

Anyone looking for some real "Initial D" mounting drifting??

11:00am Arrived Nagano 長野 Zenkoji 善光寺
http://www.zenkoji.jp/

Time to "street cleaning"...

11:45am Lunch at 丸清

So much rice and soba!  Can't finish the whole thing!

Time to go to the next spot...  This is taken on the way...

5:00pm Arrive third service area (where is the second one?  I was sleeping in the car and they didn't take any pics)

5:30pm Arrive Kusatsu 草津 Takamatsu Hotel
http://www.h-takamatsu.com/top.html

There is no bed and we slept over futons!  Real Japanese style!

Kusatsu hot spring local shots at night:

What about snacks before dinner?

Dinner at hotel:

If you want, you can rent a private room at 2,100 yen for 50 minutes:

As we all finish dinner and second hot spring at 9pm, needed some drinks and snacks before going to bed:

Day 2

After the morning hot spring, we had breakfast at 7:30AM:

Kusatsu hot spring local shots in the morning:

Service Area: Alcohol store!
http://www.asama-sakagura.co.jp/c_shisetsu.html

This is sugar ROCK:

Lunch at Yakushi Onsenn 藥師溫泉旅籠

On the way back to Tokyo, we stopped at Takasaka 高坂 service area:
http://www.driveplaza.com/sapa/1800/1800031/1/services/detail.php