Town in Kansai, Japan
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Shin-onsen (新温泉町) is a small town in Hyogo, home of 17,000 people.
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夢千代館
A museum dedicated to the 1985 television show The Diary of Yumechiyo which took place and was filmed in Yumura Onsen. It features a variety of costumes and props from the show and episodes are shown on a retro television.
浜坂先人記念館 以命亭
Also known as the Imeitei, it was built as a retirement home for a member of the Mori family. It features a brewery, a plum garden, and information about the poet Mori Aio.
安泰寺
a Buddhist monastery deep in the mountains of Japan, in the vicinity of Tottori. which offers meditation stays with the monks; sleeping, working and meditation follows their schedule. Several times a month, special meditation sessions are held during which normal work is reduced.
リフレッシュパークゆむら
A unique family-friendly pool and hot spring for daytrippers. Unlike other hot springs, when you enter, you are required to bring or rent swimwear. Once inside, go to the locker rooms. From the locker rooms, you can enter a traditional onsen where you must be naked to enter however, if you change into your swimsuit, you can exit the locker rooms and enjoy the swimming pool or head on down a corridor and up a stairwell to reach the outdoor onsen (rotemburo). The outdoor onsen feature a waterfall, a cave, a bath of local alcohols and nice views of the surrounding mountains. Because swimsuits are required, families, couples, and mixed sex groups are able to enjoy these hot springs together which is uncommon. They have a variety of sizes of swimsuit rentals for a fee if you don't have your own. Tattoos are prohibited.
薬師湯
An old daytripper hot spring in Yumura Onsen that is popular among locals. It has an indoor and outdoor bath, as well as a sauna.
七釜温泉 ゆ〜らく館
A daytripper hot spring in Shichikama Onsen, it offers multiple indoor and outdoor baths.
Teppanyaki restaurant.
Traditional Japanese restaurant.
えびすや食堂
An izakaya serving ramen, katsudon, yakisoba, and other hearty dishes.
中華菜館 笑来園
A popular local Chinese restaurant in Yumura Onsen.
伯雲亭
A ryokan in Yumura Onsen with Japanese-style rooms. It has its own onsen, which includes an indoor onsen and a small outdoor onsen. For meals, their main offering are local crab dishes in the winter and Tajima beef and local seafood in the summer.
澄風荘
A ryokan in the Hamasaka Onsen area (near Hamasaka Station) that is known for its Matsuba crab caught in Hamasaka Port. They have a "crab sommelier", so they claim to know the best ways to enjoy eating crab and can teach you how to eat it properly. They have Japanese-style rooms but the annex, which has Western beds, can also be reserved. The inn has no hot spring of its own but they offer free tickets to nearby Utopia Hamasaka or Yu-raku kan (in the Shichikama Onsen area), so guests can enter those public baths for free.
By bus
If your destination is Yumura Onsen, there are direct buses from Tottori, Osaka (3 hours), and Kobe (3 hours) to the onsen.
Sites around Hamasaka Station can be reached on foot. Buses from Hamasaka Station connect it to Shichikama Onsen and Yumura Onsen. Other coastal and inland sites are most easily explored by car.
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