The Black Eggs of Owakudani

Owakudani or “the Great Boiling Valley” inwards Hakone , Nippon , is hardly the ideal tourist spot. It’s a large volcanic caldera formed some three ,000 years agone next a large eruption of Mount Hakone. Owakudani is nevertheless active amongst boiling pools of sulphur-rich H2O in addition to huge vents spewing forth steam in addition to volcanic fumes of hydrogen sulphide in addition to sulphur dioxide. The entire surface area has a rigid scent of rotten eggs , simply it’s the eggs the tourists who catch the Great Boiling Valley are seeking for.

The Owakudani dark eggs or “Kuro-tamago” are regular chicken eggs that are hard-boiled inwards the naturally hot H2O pools. The sulphur inwards the H2O renders the eggs’ trounce dark spell also imparting a peculiar scent to it. Locals nation that taking ane tin laissez passer on the sack prolong one’s life past times 7 years. Take ii , in addition to you’ll instruct fourteen extra years added to your life.

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The eggs are boiled on exceed of a loma which visitors tin laissez passer on the sack achieve past times a kilometer long hike or past times taking the Hakone Ropeway. From this advantage indicate ane tin laissez passer on the sack convey a magnificent sentiment of Mt. Fuji , that lies adjacent door. The eggs are eaten correct at that spot , too the jump where they are boiled in addition to sold. Small wooden tables are lay out inwards the opened upward for visitors to tegument the blackened shells in addition to relish the soft sulphur tinged flesh inside. The dark eggs are famous throughout Hakone in addition to ane require non e'er catch Owakudani to swallow them. They are sold inwards many shops some the town inwards modest bags of vi for 500 Yen.

There is nix incorrect most eating sulphur boiled eggs , actually. If you lot intend they are gross , you lot should run across how the Chinese similar their eggs.

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