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Along with being the symbol of Yamada Onsen, it is a representative public bath of Shinshu Takayama Onsenkyo. The current building was rebuilt in 1989, but it is a Momoyama-style building with an entrance house and a karakaze. The previous simplicity is left intact. In the hall, trees are used not only for the bath, but also for the walls, ceiling and window piers. A cypress is used at the edges of the pillars and the yūfune, and the wind with the incense of wood is wonderful. In the early morning, the hot water is stocked, and the hot water of the mountains is further enlivened.

A day-trip hot spring where brown hot water flows from the source in a whole wooden tub. A simple appearance is worthy of being called a secret water. Containing components are at a considerable concentration of about 8000mg per kg in total. Many substances such as sodium, calcium, sulfuric acid, iron, and iodine are dissolved, and the quality of the spring is excellent. It is also located near Koyasu Shrine, which enshrines the gods of safe-living, child-giving, and child-rearing, and is also known as "Toho no-yu".

The local sake "Engi [Engi]" brewer, the former Tamamura Honten, plays a 100-year-old sake brewery as a gallery. Tamamura Collection is open to the public at an exhibition change once every three months. There are also many interesting works, such as landscape paintings by Ito Shinsui, who is famous for her beauty paintings. On the first floor, the millstones and glassware of water wheels used to mill rice for sake rice are on display. There is also a corner where you can tour the brewery of sake brewing through glass, and a corner where you can taste sake Enki and Shiga Kogen beer.

Day-trip bathing is possible at an inn in Jigokuya Onsen. Wild monkeys are famous for coming to the outdoor bath. The open-air bath is a mixed bath, and the large water spring of Jigokudani can be seen from the Yushuen built along the mountain stream. In addition, the specialty of Korakukan is Chimaki. It was swaddled with rice cakes in Kumazasa and steamed at the source of high temperatures, and when the founder of Korakukan, Manzo Takesure, suffered from water damage, he offered a chimaki to celebrate the legendary love-torn dragon snake. Five for one serving 800 yen (can be taken home). It is not possible to drive into the inn and walk about 10 minutes after parking. It is a 30-minute walk from Kambayashi Onsen.

A facility where wild Japanese macaques can be observed in an environment with no cage or fence. It is famous for monkeys entering hot springs in winter, but you can enjoy various appearances in the four seasons throughout the year. If you follow the rules in the park, you can also take photos. It is located in the mountains, which is the habitat of wild animals, so try to dress well.

A 1.6km promenade connecting Kambayashi Onsen and Jigoudani Onsen. There is only a short climb near the entrance, but a gentle path is followed by a mountainside on the left bank of the Yokoyu River. If you walk in a cool cedar-lined tree, the river sounds are pleasant, and occasionally the monkeys of Jigokudani appear along the roadside (Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park Opening hours are from April to October: 8:30 to 17:00, 11 to March: 9 to 16). If the Yokoyu River, which was flowing far below the promenade, is closer, it is Jigokuya Onsen. Take 30 minutes.

The modern museum architecture was designed by global architect Kisho Kurokawa under the theme of "symbiosis with nature". The exhibition space is characterized by an orderly array of conical display cases in a 15-meter-high stairwell designed by Kurokawa in the image of the "forest of Shiga Kogen". The collection contains a large number of Roman glasses made during the Roman Empire period around the time of the Japanese Empire, the "Roman Collection", which is a collection of art paintings and crafts from Edo, Meiji and Taisho, and works by a southern painter, Kodama Katei. They also hold original planned exhibitions for each season several times a year.

A free foot-to-foot-to-water shop on the roof of "Ōyu" in Shibu Onsen Town. You can easily enjoy the tusky, dark-brown-colored hot water, pulled from the same source as Ōyu. Towels are also available for foot-wiping.

Shibu Onsen that the high priest Gyoki opened the water during the Nara period. You can take a day bath in the big bath of the ninth bath. It is the most respectable building in the outer water, and the iron-laden water is poured into a wooden bath, which is divided into two hot and hot water. Guests can also visit nine outside baths. Nine (bitter) It has been popular since ancient times when it has the benefits of devolving labor, obituaries, safe-care childcare, and long-lived life. It is said that if you stamp each hot water, and at the end, stamp it with a high medicine master on high ground, it will be fully fulfilled.

A confectionery shop with a reputation of ¥ 75 each of the Shinshu Sesame Soba Manju, located near "Hatsuyu", a communal bathhouse in Shibu Onsen. The dough mixed with buckwheat flour is used for the skin, and the homemade paste contains plenty of Shinshu miso and kneaded sesame seeds. There are hot spring buns and local sake buns, so it's fun to compare.