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Totsukawa Onsen Village (hot springs, Totsukawa, upper baths)

Japan, Part of Totsukawa Village, Nara Prefecture

Totsukawa Onsen is located in the central part of the Kii Peninsula, at the southernmost tip of Nara Prefecture. In addition, all of the inns, guesthouses, and public facilities in the village do not reuse the hot water "sourced directly from the source." We always provide fresh water.  Tosenchi Onsen is a hot spring with a history of more than 560 years on the left bank of the Totsu River. It is said that Nobumori Sakuma, who was chased by Nobunaga after gushing out in Hotoku 2 (1450), visited Musashi for a hot spring cure while living in secrecy, and Hideyasu, the son of Toyotomi Hidenaga, the lord of Yamatokoriyama Castle, in Bunroku 4 (1595) in the hot spring area. There are legends such as a forced double suicide with a page. “Takinoyu” and “Izumiyu” are popular as day trip baths, and “Takinoyu”, which is a renovated Japanese inn, has a resting room and an open-air bath with a view of the waterfall is gaining popularity.  Totsukawa Onsen is the busiest hot spring area in the village about 10km south of Tosenji Onsen. A hot spring that keeps you cool even in winter, discovered by a charcoal burner during the Genroku era about 300 years ago. Day-trip baths include the Subaru no Sato Onsen Health Center Hoshi no Yu, the Warabio Public Bath, the Nambu Elderly Rest House Bath, and the newly opened Totsukawa Onsen Iri in June 2005. Ori-no-Yu" four houses. “Totsukawa Onsen Annoyu” is the first facility in Nara Prefecture to have a drinking fountain, a footbath, and separate indoor baths for men and women. From the facility, you can overlook the emerald green Futatsuno Dam lakeside that spreads out in front of you. Kamiyu Onsen is a hot spring that flows upstream of the Kamiyu River, about 5 km west of Totsukawa Onsen on the Ryujin Totsukawa Prefectural Road. About 280 years ago, during the Kyoho era, it is said that a villager found a hot spring in the riverbed. It is a famous hot spring surrounded by nature with no unnecessary decorations.

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Telephone number 0746-62-0004
Website https://www.vill.totsukawa.lg.jp/traveling_guide/
Access
  • About 2 hours by bus from Shingu Station on the JR Kisei Main Line. About 4 hours by bus from Kintetsu Yagi Station.
Language 日本語
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Last Update : 2023.04.14   MATCHA

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