中ノ沢温泉　磐梯西村屋

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100% Source Water, Pure Kakenagashi

• ♨️Strongly acidic sulfur water from Mount Adatara, served as 100% source-flow Kakenagashi
• 🌫️Piped some 6 km, which lets the gases settle and brings the water down to just the right heat
• ✨Known as the water that draws out the salt, and it leaves a distinctive freshness behind

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Three Baths: Open-Air, Stone, and Cypress

• 🏞️The open-air bath is open around the clock, with mountain scenery in every season
• 🪨The stone bath and the cypress bath alternate between men and women by time slot
• 🩺Sulfur water long valued for stomach ailments, rheumatism, diabetes, and women's health

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Rooms That Let the Seasons In

• 🛏️In the new wing, spacious purely Japanese rooms of 8 plus 8 mats with a separate sleeping area
• 🪟Large windows open onto a pine garden and the turning seasons
• 🍃The annex and older wing keep retro rooms with a Showa-era feel

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Home-Style Local Cooking

• 🐟The house specialty carp, plus ayu and Aizu beef, cooked at their seasonal best
• 🥬Wild vegetables gathered nearby give simple dishes real local depth
• 🌅A light breakfast to start the day on the right footing

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An Onsen Village Ringed by Mountains

• ⛰️Mount Adatara to the east, Mount Bandai to the west, the Azuma range to the north
• 🏘️A toji (湯治場) village with a healing-bath tradition going back to around 1751
• 🤫A quiet mountain hideaway, well away from the crowds

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Day Use and Amenities

• 🚪Day bathing 10:00 to 15:00, 700 yen for adults and 300 yen for children
• 🛁A private rest room is available at 2,350 yen per person (tax and bathing tax included)
• 🧴All rooms have heating and cooling and a TV, with yukata and amenities provided

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Getting Here

• 🚄Tokyo Station to Koriyama by shinkansen (90 min), then the Ban'etsu West Line rapid to Inawashiro (35 min)
• 🚌From Inawashiro Station it is a 30-minute bus ride (820 yen) to Nakanosawa Onsen
• 🚗About 20 minutes on the prefectural road from the Bandai-Atami interchange

A hundred years of history behind a hidden spring, where strongly acidic sulfur water arrives as pure Kakenagashi. In a quiet onsen village ringed by mountains, take your time over the seasons and the local cooking.