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🏔️A hidden bath in a cave, flowing for 200 years

Niigata · Sakamaki Onsen Kawatsuya

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'Snake's Bath,' a Cave Onsen Carved From Rock

• 💧Discovered in a rock crevice in the late Edo period, a spring that has flowed without pause for some 200 years
• 🪨A kakenagashi bath in a cave that keeps the rock in its natural form
• 🧖A gentle water quality around 42–43°C, soft as soaking in lotion

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Water That Soaks Into the Skin

• ♨️A sodium-calcium chloride-sulfate spring water that also contains radium
• 🌿Passed down since old times as the 'bath that needs no doctor,' famed for its healing spring
• 🕯️A moment to release body and mind's fatigue in the quiet stillness of the cave

3

Rooms Named for Trees and Autumn Leaves

• 🍁Tatami rooms named after trees and the seasons — Keyaki (zelkova), Tochi (horse chestnut), Momiji (maple)
• 🛏️A memorable 10-tatami-mat room with plush bedding laid in careful layers
• 📺Fitted with air conditioning, TV and a refrigerator, with shared toilet and washroom facilities

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Wild Greens and Game From the Mountain

• 🌱A spring table built around wild greens dug straight from the inn's own mountainside
• 🐗Game dishes of wild boar and venison, hunted locally
• 🍲Kawatsuya's signature bear hot pot, simmered in a house-made seasoning

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A Dish Straight From the Valley

• 🐟Whole char and sweetfish from the valley, salt-grilled
• 🍄Seasonal side dishes of sauteed lion's mane mushroom and seasoned wild greens
• 🍮A simple house-made apricot tofu to finish the meal

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A Remote Inn Where Novelist Eiji Yoshikawa Once Stayed

• 📖The inn where Eiji Yoshikawa stayed while shaping his novel 'Shin Heike Monogatari'
• 🏠A lone inn with roughly 200 years of history, set at the entrance to Akiyamago
• ❄️A remote ryokan wrapped in deep mountain color through every season

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Scenery Dyed by the Colors of the Mountains

• 🍂In autumn, the mountainside surrounding the inn turns deep with fall color
• 🏔️A view that unfolds straight into the deep nature of Akiyamago's mountain range
• 🌌A quiet, hidden charm found in this seldom-visited mountain valley

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A Remote Onsen at the End of a Mountain Road

• 🚗About an hour's drive from Echigo-Yuzawa Station, down a lone mountain road
• 🛣️Reached by following Route 405 over a narrow mountain pass
• 🅿️Reservation-only, with parking space for about 10 cars

A hidden, remote inn where a cave hot spring has flowed unbroken for 200 years, and the mountain behind it supplies wild greens and bear hot pot for the table. Spend a truly quiet night in the deep mountain colors that once captivated a great novelist.

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Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 15:00 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 19:00

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