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  • Tawarayama Onsen
    Yamaguchi Nagato-shi Tawarayama Onsen
    One of just 21 hot spring districts designated as a National Health Hot Spring, Tawarayama Onsen was discovered 1,100 years ago in 916 during the early Heian period. In the early Edo period, the district was operated directly by the Mohri clan, which ruled Choshu Domain. Since the Meiji period, the Machi no Yu spring has been renowned for treating rheumatism and nerve pain, the Kawa no Yu (now called the Hakuen no Yu) skin diseases and burns, and the Masa no Yu gastrointestinal disorders. Research has shown that these simple alkaline hot springs contain an abundance of hydrogen dissolved in their waters, giving them powerful restorative and antiaging properties. Bathing in the area's hot springs for their health benefits is particularly popular with those suffering from rheumatism. In addition to lodging facilities, there are also day trip hot spring bathhouses and footbaths in the area, making this a great place to stop by while traveling through the region.
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  • Niimi Chiya Onsen
    Okayama Niimi-shi Chiyahanami 1336-5
    Niimi Chiya Onsen Ibuki no Sato, located in the northernmost part of Niimi City, Okayama Prefecture, is a hotel with hot spring bathing facilities which are also open to non-guests. The Tatara no Mori Auto Camping Ground is also located on the hotel's grounds, and visitors can enjoy both camping and hot spring bathing. The hotel has outdoor baths from which you can take in the natural, seasonal beauty of Chiya; indoor baths with huge windows looking out over gorgeous scenery; and a special bathing room with a tub which can even be entered while in a wheelchair. The waters of the hotel's simple alkaline hot spring are gentle on the skin and said to treat such ailments as nerve pain, muscle soreness, joint pain, frozen shoulders, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive diseases, and hemorrhoids, in addition to refreshing the mind and body. The hotel's restaurant is authorized by the Chiyagyu Shinkokai Chiya beef promotion association as a purveyor of Chiya beef, and its Chiya beef shabushabu hotpot and steak sukiyaki are highly renowned.
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  • Yuki Onsen
    Hiroshima Hiroshima-shi Saeki-ku Yukicho Tada 2563-1
    Said to have been discovered some 1,500 years ago, this hot spring district serves as the retreat of Hiroshima. Consisting of ryokan inns standing eave to eave along a river, one of the things that make this district so popular is the song of kajika frogs and the sight of fireflies visitors can enjoy. The waters of the area's simple mildly radioactive springs are said to treat such ailments as rheumatoid arthritis, sensitivity to cold, minor high blood pressure, and chronic illnesses. Yuki Town's weeping cherry trees come into beautiful bloom in spring and are popular with photography lovers. Whatever time of year you come, there's some seasonal specialness waiting to greet you, including fireflies in summer, hiking in autumn, and ancient kagura Shinto music and dance performances in winter. In addition, Sandankyo Gorge, considered one of Japan's five most beautiful gorges and a designated Special Place of Scenic Beauty, is located just a 90 minute drive away.
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  • Mega Hira Onsen
    Hiroshima Hatsukaichi-shi Yoshiwa
    An established natural hot spring resort located in Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture at the foot of Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park boasting beautiful, seasonal scenery. Here visitors can enjoy hot spring bathing and top quality comforts and leisure to their heart's content. The resort is known for its outdoor baths created from a huge, 45,000 year old fossilized tree (located in the Kua Garden Spa and women's bath areas, only), which are equal in popularity to the Kua Garden Spa facility itself. Visitors can stay at the resort but the bathing facilities are also open to non-guests. The resort also encompasses the Megahira Ski Resort and the Woodone Museum of Art, ensuring there's plenty of things for visitors to see and do, as well. In addition, the resort is famous for its food, which spans everything from delicate kaiseki course cuisine crafted with seasonal ingredients to the unique, rustic nabe hotpot dishes of Hiroshima's Yoshiwa mountain hamlet. The resort offers money-saving lodging and day trip plans, too.
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  • Kimita Onsen
    Hiroshima Miyoshi-shi Kimitacho Izumiyoshida
    An alkaline spring, unusual in the Chugoku-Shikoku region, welling up on the grounds of Roadside Station Forest Kimita downriver from Kannosekyo Gorge, known for its beautiful seasonal scenery. A privately owned carbon dioxide spring with a pH of 6.5, its milky white waters are said to leave the skin silky smooth. The Kimita Onsen inn's bathhouse has a variety of baths, including classic small vase-like tubs, a cascading shower bath, jacuzzi, and pressure bath; the inn's outdoor bath, surrounded by natural beauty, offers bathers an unprecedented sense of freedom and airiness. Kimita is filled with rustic scenery, and visitors can visit the Eight Picturesque Sights of Kimita or see if they can spot rare wild animals in Kannosekyo Gorge Nature Park. Non-guests can also use the bathhouse facilities; for visitors looking for lodgings, the inn has Japanese-style and Western-style cottages.
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  • Tomonoura Onsen
    Hiroshima Fukuyama-shi Tomochotomo 136
    This brand new hot spring district, located on the tip of the Numakuma Peninsula, was only first developed in 2002. The area's radium springs boast some of the highest radium quantities in the country and their waters are said to treat nerve pain, muscle soreness, joint pain, and other ailments. In addition to hot spring hotels and inns, area visitors can also take in the natural beauty of Sensuijima Island and choose from a wide array of hot spring options, from high class resort-style hotel bathhouses to casual day trip hot spring facilities. Tomonoura is centered on Teramachi-dori Street, a road built in the early Edo period by Fukushima Masanori, builder of Tomo Castle, as part of the town beneath the fortress, and the area has many shrines and temples which visitors can walk amongst and explore. The area also grew and developed as a prosperous port town, and accordingly is dotted with many historic sites and old-fashioned townscapes as well as monuments warning of the dangers of tsunami waves.
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  • Yuba Onsen
    Okayama Okayama-shi Naka-ku Yuba
    First developed in the Heian period, this hot spring wells forth from the ground at the site of what was once Tatsunokuchi Castle. Located a 15 minute drive from Okayama Station, itself an area which retains much of its old castle town atmosphere, this curative spring was once exclusively used by the chief advisor to the Emperor. In the Kamakura period, the spring was opened to the general public by the monk Chogen. The radium spring generates an abundant flow and its piping hot waters are said to be effective for general indication and treat atopic dermatitis, psoriasis vulgaris, chronic eczema, and skin suppuration. The city of Okayama is known for its abundant natural beauty, its history, and its fruit. Visitors can enjoy seasonal fruit picking in the area as well as visit an abundant array of sightseeing destinations, including the Okayama Korakuen, a garden created some 300 years ago by Ikeda Tsunamasa, the second lord of Okayama Domain, and a now a designated Special Place of Scenic Beauty; Kibitsu-jinja Shrine, the Saijo Inari-san Myokyoji Temple, and Okayama Castle.
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  • Hagi Hot spring village
    Yamaguchi Hagi-shi
    This area was designated the Hagi Onsenkyo hot spring village after the drilling of the Hagi Onsen hot spring in 2004; today, there are eight differing springs in the area, hot spring hotels, and day trip bathhouses. Hagi is known for having produced many of the great minds of the Meiji Restoration and was founded in 1604 by Mohri Terumoto with the building of Hagi Castle. For approximately 260 years, until the center of domain governance was moved to Yamaguchi, the area prospered as a castle town, and even today much of the atmospheric old townscape from this time still remains intact. The old castle town area sprawls around the outer moat of the site where Hagi Castle once stood as well as many mid- and lowers ranking samurai residences, and exploring the old streets is practically required of visitors to the city; the area is also dotted with sites and monuments relating to the tumultuous times of the Meiji Restoration. After a long walk in the city, a soothing hot spring bath is the ultimate pleasure.
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  • Sanbe Onsen
    Shimane Oda-shi Sanbecho Shigaku
    This elegant and old hot spring district, situated at the southern foot of Mt. Sanbe, has flourished for over 200 years since Kansei era. The district encompasses two old-fashioned public bathhouses and around 10 hot spring lodging facilities. The waters of the area's chloride springs are said to treat such ailments as nerve pain, rheumatism, muscle soreness, stiff shoulders, lower back pain, joint pain, fatigue, sprains, gastrointestinal disorders, sensitivity to cold, high blood pressure, and diabetes. The baths at almost all of the facilities here are constantly replenished from a source spring kakenagashi style. The Kame no Yu bathhouse, closely connected to the local community; and the Yakushiyu, a bathhouse popular with tourists; are seen as the symbols of the district. There are also many sightseeing destinations in the area where visitors can take in the abundant local natural beauty, such as Mt. Sanbe National Park, which encompasses picturesque Mt. Sanbe; and Nishi no Hara, scenic grassland where cows are left to graze from spring through fall.
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  • Miyahama Onsen
    Hiroshima Hatsukaichi-shi Miyahama Onsen
    First developed 50 years ago, this hot spring district is the closest to the famous island of Miyajima. Having only been turned into a hot spring district in 1964, it is relatively new; the waters of the area's radium springs are virtually colorless, tasteless, and odorless, and are said to be particularly effective at treating nerve pain, as well as such ailments as muscle soreness, joint pain, fatigue, women's diseases, and hemorrhoids. Situated on a small hill, visitors bathing in the hot spring baths here can enjoy views of Miyajima in the distance as well as oyster rafts floating in the gentle Seto Inland Sea. In addition to nearby Miyajima, considered one of the three most picturesque places in Japan, there are a variety of sightseeing destinations within easy walking distance, including the rock of Sanken Ichibo no Iwa, a boulder on which the intellectual Yoshida Shoin is said to have rested during his travels and which offers a view of three prefectures at once; the Zannensha, a Shinto shrine dedicated to scholarship and peace; and a stone monument inscribed with words by Muromachi period samurai and poet Imagawa Ryoshun.
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