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Come for a visit, but don’t do a thing?

At Kinosaki Onsen, the idea of “staying in your ryokan” may not be a standard way of spending your vacation here. As for us, the owners of the ryokan, it is custom for us to tell y……

Japanese ryokan meals are nothing to snub.

Japanese inns basically have two meals, dinner and breakfast. This is the traditional style of a Japanese inn, and a chef specializing in a ryokan cooks a cuisine devoted to "local……

Snack Bars, the night culture of the hot spring town.

Kinosaki Onsen’s night. Eat your fill at your ryokan and then go out to visit some of the bathhouses with your geta echoing at your feet as you walk down the streets. What to do ne……

Don’t think, just relax and get naked.

Understandably, getting naked with a bunch of strangers for the first time, especially when it is not part of your culture or something that you are not accustomed to, will be di……

Sightseeing destination where local community is still alive and well.