This public bathhouse is located in Yunotsu, a World Heritage Site and the only hot spring resort in Japan designated as an important traditional building preservation district. The Yunotsu Onsen is said to have opened as long ago as 1,300 years ago, and legend has it that a great raccoon dog was discovered bathing in the hot spring. The name "Yunotsu" means "port with hot spring" in Japanese. I...»
This hot spring resort is surrounded by mountains on three sides and stretches from the port of Yunotsu to the mountain side. It was a prosperous port town in the Warring States Period and Edo Period as a loading port for silver produced from Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine. It was also an inn town on the San'in Road (San'in Kaido). The hot spring resort town has a quiet atmosphere of an old hot spring ...»