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♨️Water rising underfoot, warmth nine centuries old

Aomori · Tsuta Onsen Ryokan

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Kyuan-no-yu, Rising Underfoot

• ♨️A natural bath in the ashimoto-yushutsu style, where the spring wells up through the tub floor itself
• 🌡️Naturally emerging at 45.4°C, a gentle sodium-calcium sulfate water used exactly as it comes
• 🪵Rebuilt in 1990 with deep character, shared by men and women on alternating hours

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Senkyo-no-yu Beneath a 12-Meter Ceiling

• ⛰️A vast timber bathing hall opening up beneath a ceiling 12 meters high
• 📖Named for Senkyo Sassatsu, a line by the novelist Inoue Yasushi
• 🔔The sound of water carries through the space, open and strangely reverent

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Rooms Marked by Their Eras

• 🏮The 1918 main building's hinabi rooms feel like stepping into a black-and-white photograph
• 🛏️The west wing's wa-modern twins, renovated in 2021–2022, add contemporary comfort
• ✨Special rooms Nanakamado, Katsura, and Shakunage suit different tastes

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Aomori Kaiseki in Season

• 🍲Honest, unfussy kaiseki built on seasonal Aomori produce
• 🐟Seasonal fish and vegetables from the Hakkoda foothills, cooked as the region does
• 🌅Breakfast is a warm buffet of local traditional dishes

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The Dining Hall Tsuta-no-Ki

• 🍽️Dinner kaiseki is prepared by the chef at Tsuta-no-Ki, 18:00–21:00
• 🥢The eight major allergens can be accommodated (request by the morning before)
• ☕An Aomori country table in unpretentious surroundings

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Nine Hundred Years of Renowned Water

• 📜A historic onsen ryokan where toji cures have continued since 1147, the third year of Kyuan
• 🖋️Beloved by the writer Omachi Keigetsu, whose traces remain in the Keigetsu-no-ma
• 🌲A hidden ryokan wrapped in Hakkoda's virgin beech forest

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Reaching It Through Hakkoda

• 🚗About an hour and a half by car from Shin-Aomori Station, deep in the Hakkoda mountains
• 🚌About 2 hours 8 minutes on the JR bus Mizuumi-go from Aomori Station
• 🚐Free shuttle from Shichinohe-Towada Station (reserve 3 days ahead, 15:00 pick-up)

Tsuta Onsen Ryokan is a famed bath where the spring rises beneath your feet and nine hundred years have settled into the timber. Deep in Hakkoda's virgin beech forest, this is the quiet toji tradition that Japan's great writers loved.

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Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 15:00 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 24:00

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