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♨️A Healing Mountain Bath Visited by Flying Squirrels

Nagano · Kakeyu Onsen Tsuruya Ryokan

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A Time-Honored Inn in Kakeyu Onsen

• 🏞️A mountain hot spring ryokan that treats the Uchimura River valley and the grounds of Monju-do as its own natural garden
• 🦫Known for a nocturnal flying squirrel that has made its home at the ryokan for over 20 years
• 🍃A place for quiet rest, free of stimulation or demands, where guests say "there's nothing here, and that's exactly what's good about it"

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An Open-Air Bath Cradled by the Valley

• 🌲Separate men's and women's open-air baths beside the valley, for an unhurried soak in nature through every season
• 💧Drinkable spring water flows from the tap 24 hours a day, so you can drink it as well as bathe in it
• 🛁A steam room and a ledge for a half-body soak make long bathing sessions comfortable

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The Benefits of a Renowned Spring

• 🧪A colorless, tasteless, odorless simple spring (mildly alkaline, hypotonic, high-temperature) that is safe to drink
• 🩺Known as a fine spring for high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, neuralgia, rheumatism, and rehabilitation after cerebral illness
• ♨️A toji hot spring town where the traditional method has long been "long soaks in lukewarm water"

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Four Seasons Flowing Past the Window

• 🍁A large indoor bath where you soak while watching autumn color and the valley's fresh greenery through a big window
• 🚻Baths include Yakushiyu (separated by gender) and Bunshuyu (mixed-gender indoor and open-air, plus a women-only indoor bath)
• 🔑Two free, reservation-free private family baths, fed by kakenagashi spring water

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Rooms Facing the Valley

• 🪟41 Japanese-style rooms — 8-mat, 10-mat, and 10-mat-plus-4.5-mat two-room layouts — each with its own view of the valley
• 🛏️One Western-style room with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom, sleeping up to three with an extra bed
• 🍵A moment of rest spent in a calm, quiet tatami room

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The Table of Shinshu

• 🥩Mountain ingredients like Shinshu premium beef and free-range local chicken
• 🐟Taste char and yamame trout raised in clear streams, Shinshu salmon, and Saku carp
• 🍂Shinshu flavors through the seasons — spring wild greens, autumn matsutake mushrooms, and fruit picking

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A Reassuring, Barrier-Free Stay

• ♿Certified a "Silver Star" facility, with corridors and rooms designed for wheelchair access
• 🛗The Jouju no Yu bath is step-free from corridor to bathroom, with an elevator connecting floors
• 🤝A toji bathhouse that has kept mixed-gender bathing so caregivers can accompany those who need assistance

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Transportation and Access

• 🚌Take a local bus bound for Kakeyu Onsen from Ueda Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen
• 🚗About 40 minutes by car from Tobu-Yunomaru IC on the Joshin'etsu Expressway, with parking available
• 🚐Pickup from Ueda or Matsumoto Station is offered for groups of 10 or more (reservation required, conditions apply)

At Kakeyu Onsen there is only the hot spring, nature, and the warmth of people who understand how to keep their distance. Soak unhurried in waters famed enough to drink, and in the quiet of nights visited by flying squirrels, spend a season of rest that brings you back to yourself and your family.

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* This introduction was compiled from information published by each property (official website and similar sources), so some details may differ from what you find on the day. It is AI-assisted and can contain errors — please check the official website and the details shown at booking before you reserve.

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Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 14:30 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 18:00

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