Yamanaka Onsen Tours and Trips (Ishikawa Prefecture)

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Yamanaka Onsen

(Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture)

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*This map shows "Yamanaka Onsen Cultural Hall (Yamanaka Onsen Ryokan Association)"

Hot Spring Data

efficacy:
For bathing: neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, frozen shoulder, bruises, chronic digestive diseases, hemorrhoids, poor circulation, recovery from illness, fatigue, health promotion, arteriosclerosis, cuts, burns, chronic skin diseases, motor paralysis. For drinking: gallstones, chronic constipation, obesity, diabetes, gout.
Spring quality:
Calcium and sodium monosulfate spring

Tourist Attraction Information

There are plenty of things to see, including the Bashodo Hall, which enshrines Matsuo Basho, and the beautiful Kakusenkei Gorge Gorge. On Kakusenkei Gorge Promenade, you can see bridges such as the cypress Korogi Bridge and the massive arched stone Kurodani Bridge, as well as strangely shaped rocks and bizarre stones and the beauty of the valley.

Highlights

Beloved by Matsuo Basho, this town still thrives with traditional culture, including "Yamanaka lacquerware," "Yamanaka-bushi," and "Kutani ware." "Kiku-no-yu" is a public bath that has been in operation since the hot springs were first opened.

Hot Spring Specialties

Yamanaka lacquerware, known for its high-level woodturning techniques
The history of Yamanaka lacquerware began with woodworkers who moved from Echizen to Masago Village during the Tensho era, and in the Edo period, master craftsmen were invited from all over the country to introduce lacquering and maki-e techniques. Techniques such as Sensujibiki, Shuduri-nuri, Koma-nuri, and Iro-nuri lacquerware were developed. Yamanaka's unique woodturning techniques are outstanding and have been designated as an intangible cultural asset of the prefecture. At the Yamanaka Lacquerware Festival, which is held every year during Golden Week, people visiting the hot springs can be seen flocking to purchase lacquerware.

Hot Springs

Yamanaka Onsen, highly praised by Basho in "Oku no Hosomichi"
In 1689, on the way to "Oku-no-Hosomichi", Matsuo Basho visited Yamanaka Onsen and stayed there for 8 nights and 9 days. At that time, bathers and townspeople, men and women of all ages, bathed in the public bath (Kiku-no-yu), and Basho loved the bath so much that he wrote a poem saying, "In the mountains, I do not pick chrysanthemums, for the smell of the bath is so good that the dew from the chrysanthemums is not needed to bring immortality and longevity," and praised the bath as one of the "Three Great Hot Springs of Fuso (another name for Japan)" alongside Kusatsu and Arima. (Source: Yamanaka Onsen Tourism Association) As he strolled around Kurodani Bridge in Kakusenkei Gorge, he clapped his hands and expressed admiration, saying that this was the joy of the pilgrimage.