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DISCOVER Japan Your Way

JAPAN
IN THE WINTER

While Japan is most often associated with its springtime cherry
blossoms, winter is also a superlative time to visit. With perfect
pistes, riotous festivals, and steaming hot springs – for people
and primates – this season has something for everyone.

A Good Soak
TOP RELAXING
5 ROTENBURO overlooking wintry surrounds, for the ultimate
Sit in a steaming rotenburo (outdoor onsen),
relaxing experience. Hokkaido, with its smol-
Kita Onsen dering volcanoes, has more rotenburo than
∑ kitaonsen.come any other prefecture, but there are many more
A secluded Honshu bath across the country. In Northern Honshu, there
over 1,000 years old. is even a bath that caters solely to monkeys.
Red-faced macaques soak in the hot pools at
Ginzan Onsen the Jigokudani Monkey Park (p174).
⌂ Obanazawa, Northern
Honshu
Charming hot springs
at “Silver Mountain”.
Yagen Onsen
⌂ Shimokita Peninsula,
Northern Honshu
Free open-air pool.
Asahidake Onsen
⌂ Higashikawa, Hokkaido
Soak at the foot of the
island’s tallest peak.
Noboribetsu Onsen
⌂ Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
Eleven kinds of water.

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