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At the end of March, at the beginning of spring, I took a trip to Mt. Haruna Shrine, Mt. Haruna, and Lake Haruna, and after more than an hour's bus ride from Takasaki Station, I arrived at the lake to find the remnants of winter still visible in the mountains and on both sides of the road. After soaking in the Lake Haruna hot springs, I think I spent the entire day looking at nothing but the lake and the mountains. I bought this sake at Takasaki station on my way home. It was not as sweet and refreshing as I had expected. I bought some fried wakasagi (smelt) at a restaurant near the lake just before the bus departed for home, and it would have been better if I had drunk it with fried wakasagi. I was surprised to find that the smell I detected from the wakasagi was the very aroma of the hot spring.
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