Legends Onsen Hot Spring

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Legends about Onsen Hot Springs　温泉と伝説



. ONSEN 温泉 . おんせん Hot Springs .
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. Japanese Legends and Folktales .
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Many Onsen have a kokeshi wooden doll as souvenir.
. Kokeshi こけし / 小芥子 / 子消し wooden doll .

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. Eight old Hot Springs 八古湯
since the Heian Period - 平安時代の「八古湯」 .

有馬温泉 - Arima Onsen - Hyogo
道後温泉 - Dogo Onsen - Ehime
岩井温泉（鳥取県）Iwai Onsen - Tottori
いわき湯本温泉 - Iwaki Yumoto Onsen - Fukushima
川渡温泉（宮城県）- Kawatabi Onsen - Miyagi
鳴子温泉 - Naruko Onsen - Miyagi
玉造温泉 - Tamatsukuri Onsen - Shimane
湯元温泉 - Yumoto Onsen - Ibaraki

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Some Onsen have been found by accident,
when a hunter in the mountains observed an animal relaxing in the warm water.

Google with the name of any Onsen to find out more.

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. Onsen Yakushi 温泉薬師 "Yakushi Nyorai of the Hot Spring .
- Kankaiji 観海寺 -　Kankai-Ji 清寧山 Seineizan - Beppu, Oita


. Yakushi Onsen 薬師温泉 Hot Springs named Yakushi .

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- ABC - List of the Onsen names

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. Arima Onsen 有馬温泉　Arima Hot Spring . - Hyogo


Awakura Onsen　粟倉温泉　*
Okayama, Nishi-Awakura Village


. Awazu Onsen 粟津温泉 .
石川県小松市粟津温泉 Ishikawa, Komatsu, Awazu Onsen
and Taichō 泰澄上人　Saint Taicho Shonin of Mount Hakusan 白山


. Fudo Onsen 不動温泉 - Fudo Yu　不動湯 Fudo Myo-O - List.


. Gero Onsen 下呂温泉 Gero Hot Spring Spa .
岐阜県下呂市森 Gifu
The hot Spring town has a history of over 1000 years,
and is regarded as being one of the “Top Three Hot Springs” in Japan along with Arima and Kusatsu Onsen.

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. Hyoshimizu Onsen 拍子水温泉 - Oita .
おはぐろ水 Ohaguromizu hot spring
ohaguro お歯黒 liquid to blackens the teeth

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. Kappa Onsen　河童温泉 Hot Springs - List .

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Kawakami Onsen 川上温泉
磐梯町 Bandai Town, 福島県 Fukushima

Near the 荒人神社 Kojin Jinja of 磐梯村 Baidaimura there is a swamp called 平洗澤　Araidaisawa swamp.
Once there lived a couple that used to rob travelers, kill them and throw them into this swamp.
Many years later a Samurai with a white beard appeared in the dream of the woman. He told her:
"If you stop your bad ways, I will show you a sacred spring."
Next morning she went to the spot and found a hot spring coming out from under a rock. This is
Kawakami Onsen 川上温泉.


Kawakami-7 Tsuchiyuonsenmachi,

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An old hot spring is buried in the ground of Mt. Bandai by the eruption in the 21st year of Meiji. It is the bottom point of a trail up Mt. Bandai, and is famous for the place where the Genji fireflies live in swarms.
The hot spring is located halfway between Lake Inawashiro and the Bandai Highlands. ...
Lake Hibara Urabandai is nearby.
- source : japanguides.net/fukushima -


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. Misasa Onsen 三朝温泉 Tottori .

. Onikobe Onsen 鬼首温泉　Miyagi .

. Ryujin Onsen 龍神温泉 Dragon God Hot Spring Wakayama .


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. Shiraito Onsen 白糸温泉 Nagano .


Sukawa Onsen 須川温泉‎
Iwate 岩手県 Ichinoseki 一関市 - Sukawa Kogen Onsen
Found by hunters. Legend knows that someone entering this sacred mountain area will never get out alive.


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Togura Onsen 戸倉温泉 Togura Hot Spring

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Togura Kamiyamada Onsen (戸倉上山田温泉)
is a hot spring town in Nagano Prefecture, situated between Karuizawa and Nagano City. It sits in a valley by the banks of the Chikuma River at the foot of a small but noteworthy mountain fortress. The town offers good sulfuric waters and has traditionally been used as a stopover by visitors to Zenkoji Temple in nearby Nagano. What differentiates Togura Kamiyamada Onsen from your average onsen town is the presence of Tyler Lynch, a tall American who runs one of the local ryokan and contributes to making the town more accessible to foreign tourists than other onsen towns.
- source : japan-guide.com/e... -


. Legend about its origin and the kame 亀 turtle .


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Totsukawa Onsen 十津川温泉 Totsukawa Hot Spring
Nara Prefecture, Yoshino-gun, Totsukawa-mura Hiraya / 奈良県吉野郡十津川村平谷



. Totsukawa / Totsugawa 十津川と伝説 Legends about Totsukawa village .

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. Tsuetate Onsen 杖立温泉 Kumamoto .
founded by Kobo Daishi, when his bamboo staff (tsue) took roots.
It is now called 逆杖の竹 "upside down bamboo staff".

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Yoshioka Onsen 吉岡温泉
Tottori 鳥取市　- part of the Inaba Onsen Resorts　因幡温泉郷

About 1000 years ago
at the foot of Mount Jubusan 鷲峰山 there lived the elder Ashioka 葦岡長者. There was also a beautiful girl who suddenly disfigured with scars by an epidemic. The elder tried all kinds of medicine to help her, but nothing worked.
One evening at sunset the statue of Yakushi Nyorai from Shobuyama 菖蒲山 appeared in his dream. The Buddha of Healing told him to look below the willow tree for sacred hot spring - and as you can guess - the girl was healed and so are many more nowadays.
The grave of the Elder is still there, and about 13 hot spring hotels are now doing business.

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. Yufuin Onsen 湯布院温泉 Yufuin Hot Spring . Oita　大分　
1. Yufuin Hot Springs (由布院温泉)
2．Yunohira Hot Springs (湯平温泉)
3. Tsukahara Hot Springs (塚原温泉)
- - - - - and Yufudake 由布岳 Mount Yufudake

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Nichibun Yokai Database
- source : www.nichibun.ac.jp
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