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A barrier-free hot spring facility with no stairs friendly to the elderly. There are two types of saunas: high temperature and low temperature, electric bath, jacuzzi, outdoor bath, family bath, etc. Shampoos and other free placement. Japanese food is served at the restaurant. Next door is Mount Niou and a comprehensive park, and the cherry blossoms are beautiful in the spring, and families can enjoy it.

Located a 5-minute walk from Heisei Chikuho Railway Genjiinomori Station. You can enjoy the hot water from the skin-friendly simple hot springs in the large bath of the inner bath and the open-air rock bath. Family baths and saunas are also very popular hot springs. The vast grounds also include a hotalhouse, a lodge, a bungalow and a campsite where guests can stay and train, and can be used for various purposes. Users also have a discount on the use of hot springs.

From family camps to group camps and solo camps, each site and location is unique, and a wide range of ages can enjoy it throughout the year without getting bored.

"Sakurakan", a hot spring facility located at the roadside station Oto Sakurakaido. There is a large bath, an open-air bath, and a sauna, as well as a medicine stone bath (Arashi no Uto) 1100 yen. Silky hot water, whose whole body is wrapped in 3 micron bubbles, is popular among female customers. The large bathhouse is used by men and women on a daily basis. You can enjoy the rich four seasons of Daito-cho in the open-air bath. There are also three family baths.

Roadside station with a large site in Daito-cho. Three facilities are combined: "Momijikan", which has a direct sales shop and a restaurant, "Sakura-kan", a day-trip hot spring facility, and "Kinko Fureai-sama", where you can play freely. Among them, the food court with eight stores is popular at the "Momijikan" restaurant. In addition to the original menu, which includes original curries and Japanese-style pasta using specialty sijimi, and ramen with dashi, you can also enjoy high-impact soft ice cream topped with vanilla ice cream and dried sijimi. Sakura Onsen is a natural hot spring, and includes a large bathhouse, an open-air bath, and a medicine bath.

It was reportedly designed by Sesshu [Sesshu] around the 6th year of civilization (1474) during the Muromachi period, in the gardens of the former family Fujie family. The garden area is about 10,000 sq m. It is a garden that takes advantage of the method of pongna learned in China using the pond as the center of the garden view.

A roadside station that stands along Route 201. The direct sales shop "Ojugonchi Market-suo" has a selection of local fresh vegetables and fruits, fresh fish and processed products such as miso, as well as local brand rice and Itodashi rice. In addition, in the food court, you can enjoy unique menus such as egg rice specialty shops and soft serve ice cream made of coal that is unique to coal mining towns called “black gourmet”. On the third Sunday of every month, "Ojugonchi City" is held, and you can enjoy various events according to the season, such as the summer festival and the year-end Thanksgiving.

In the "Wagie no sato", the goods museum mainly sells seasonal vegetables and processed products such as miso and tofu. The prepared foods and bento, which are handmade and finished by a local farmer's housewife, are also reputed.

In 1991, it was opened as the first full-scale museum of Chikuho in the Tagawa Cultural Area. It features a heavy exterior of a large copper plate roof. Under the theme of "transmission from Chikuho", various planned exhibitions centered on writers related to the local area are held. As a museum that can be enjoyed by citizens, the museum offers a wide range of local art, as well as holding English exhibitions, children's painting exhibitions, workshops that can be enjoyed by parents and children, as well as a place to freely discuss the presentation of works and publicity.

The "Chikuho Coal Field Archaeological Site" became a national designated historic site in October 2018. A red brick-style building stands in the Coal Memorial Park, which is maintained at the "Mitsagawa Mining Works Ida Mine Site", which is one of them. The first floor introduces the history of the coal mine and the coal industry, while the second floor displays the coal mine records of Sakuhei Yamamoto, the first in Japan to be listed as a UNESCO World Memory Heritage (Memory of the World). Outside, SL used for coal transportation, large machinery used for digging, etc. are also exhibited, and there is the former Miidagawa Mining Plant Ida Pisan, and the first second chimney (National Register Tangible Cultural Property), which was also sung in the coal mine section. While walking through the park, you can see how it was when it flourished in the coal mine. It takes about one hour.