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Imagine stepping into a painting: a narrow valley carved by a rushing river, flanked on both sides by four- and five-story wooden inns draped in soft lamplight, snowflakes drifting past gas-lit lanterns, the faint smell of sulfur driftin...

You’ve taken the shinkansen to Sendai, you’ve done Matsushima, maybe you’ve browsed the beef tongue restaurants along Kokubuncho Street — and now you’re wondering what else Miyagi Prefecture has to offer that isn&...

A castle on the hill, steam rising from the streets below, vineyard rows stretching across the valley, and a festival in February where townsfolk drench performers in icy water for good luck — welcome to Kaminoyama Onsen, one of Yamagata...

Tucked into a forested valley in the mountains of western Miyagi Prefecture, Naruko Onsen is the kind of place that travel writers desperately want to keep secret. It’s where kokeshi dolls — those simple, cylindrical wooden figures...

Japan has over 27,000 hot spring sources — more than almost any other country on Earth — and Tohoku, the northeastern region, is where some of the country’s finest onsen are hiding. Away from the crowds of Hakone and Beppu, Tohoku&...

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