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Japan’s most beautiful onsen: Takaragawa Onsen

Michela — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 06:30:27 +0000

A traditional ryokan with wooden buildings and tatami floors with rooms overlooking the river. After crossing a bridge and taking a short walk, remove your yukata and immerse yourself in the hot springs waters, completely surrounded by Takaragawa Onsen’s natural beauty. Takaragawa Onsen is an enchanted place, the most beautiful onsen I have ever been [...]

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Visiting Val d’Orcia, the best things to see in the Tuscany countryside

Michela — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 06:30:48 +0000

The Val d’Orcia, is located in the Tuscany region of Italy and is the perfect destination for an on-the-road itinerary, and I visited it in late spring, as part of an itinerary in Tuscany, visiting the region’s 6 Unesco World Heritage Sites, which can be eventually combined with another amazing destination of Italy, the Cinque [...]

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Visit Hakone, the onsen destination near Tokyo

Michela — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:30:01 +0000

Hakone is one of the most recommended excursions from Tokyo and a popular destination among Japanese people as well. Easily accessible from Tokyo, full of museums and natural beauties, including the view (albeit not so obvious) of Mount Fuji and onsen, can be enjoyed both as a day trip from Tokyo, and as a two-day [...]

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Shibu Onsen and the onsen hopping near the Snow Monkey Park

Michela — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:30:07 +0000

In Japan, there are several onsen towns, but the small Shibu Onsen still retains that charm of the past, with its wooden houses and cobbled streets, where you can stroll wearing geta and yukata while you go to soaking from one onsen to another. If we add that the Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park, the park [...]

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The Japanese Hotsprings – guide to Onsen in Japan

Michela — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:00:56 +0000

Entering an onsen means to remove everything, literally. Onsen, the traditional Japanese hot springs, are not just a place to relax by immersing yourself in the hot thermal waters, but they are a place where you enter totally naked, stripping off your clothes, make-up, prejudices and anxieties about your body. I still remember my first [...]

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Ikaho Onsen, for your body and your mind

Michela — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:30:55 +0000

Ikaho is a district of Shibukawa Onsen, in Gunma prefecture, north of Tokyo, which became popular especially in the end of the 16th century, when injured samurai of the Sengoku Judai (Warring States Era) come here to heal their wounds in the thermal baths rich in Ikaho. Nowadays, along with Kusatsu and Minakami, Ikaho Onsen [...]

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Beitou, the hot springs of Taipei

Michela — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 07:48:44 +0000

If like me you love to soak in the waters of hot springs, Beitou is a destination to be included in your trip to Taiwan. Beitou is a half-day excursion in the northern area of Taipei The development of Beitou as onsen-town come from the Japanese occupation when the Japanese people start to use the [...]

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Visit Kusatsu Onsen

Michela — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:16:38 +0000

In the mountains of Gunma, at 1200 meters above sea level, there is Kusatsu Onsen, a famous onsen town which together with Gero and Arima is one of the three hottest springs of Japan. Kusatsu Onsen is a very popular destination among the Japanese, but still little known by tourists, although was on my wish [...]

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Yufuin, traditional hostspring near Beppu

Michela — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:31:15 +0000

Among the hotspring town of Kyushu, Beppu is certainly the most famous, but Yufuin is a quite and more relaxing alternative, loved mainly by Japanese women. If you are looking for a quiet city, where relax body and mind far away from the busy life and the lights of the city, Yufuin is a perfect [...]

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Visiting the Hells of Beppu

Michela — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:32:02 +0000

White fumes rise from the hill, hot vapors envelop the houses, an almost apocalyptic scene. Welcome to the Hells of Beppu. Kannawa is a particular area of the city of Beppu, a city born and developed thanks to geothermal energy ot this volcanic area. In the island of Kyushu, the souther of the major islands [...]

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