Name: Staying Overnight in a Japanese Hot Spring Town ♨️ Zao Onsen in Yamagata
Uploaded: 2022-12-23T18:25:10.000Z
Duration: 14 min 56 s
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Today I'm going to take you guys on an adventure through Yamagata prefecture.

Gerund

We're going to be visiting some very famous resorts and learning a lot about them and I think it's going to be amazing.

So let's go as one of the most seismically active countries in the world.

Japan is home to over 3000 onsen areas and the mountainous region of Yamagata prefecture in the North has a reputation for being blessed with some of the best hot springs in the country.

Today, we're going on a trip through the villages of Zao and Kami No, Yama as we test out four different types of baths.

Taste some of the local specialties and experience the stunning winter scenery and our first stop on our journey is Zao Onsen village, although most well known for its beautiful ski slopes, zombies or you will find the oldest Onsen baths in Yamagata Prefecture with a history dating back over 1900 years.

The springs of how are known for their unique mineral makeup, which many on sunbathers claim can improve your skin and actually heal wounds.

Were lucky to be joined by Hiromi Ito today, a local guide who will hop in the bath with us and explain what makes his own son water so special, Very special.

So the acidic bath is good for refreshing your skin affiliation.

But later on we're going to go to a very alkaline bath first.

It's really nice to enter a bath like this here in and then head over to the alkaline bath to replenish your skin with moisture.

There's actually a local specialty here in south called Egham Oki.

But it's so popular that you have to make sure you go out to a little shop and buy it during the morning or they will all sell out.

I was able to get some so check these out.

The little golden things on top of the mochi are apparently rice.

Egham Oki is to just pick up the leaf like this and bite it.

It's quite soft mochi, which is really nice.

So if you come up to try and grab yourself some before they sell out.

Alright, we're back outside into the snow.

I'm actually taking you guys through town a little bit for about a five minute walk.

I want to show you another option that you have for baths here.

Onsen town, there are three public baths that can be used even if you're not staying overnight at any of the deal con.

You can just pay a few dollars and hop in and enjoy the baths out here.

Look at how much snow it snowed so much today.

So you walk up here and you put in your coins, there's no staff here to take your money.

They trust you, they trust that you'll put your $2 in there.

This is the female side and boys are over there.

So inside each own saying you can usually find a plaque like this on the wall that tells you about all the different minerals that are in the water and the exact content, the exact amount of each one.

I was thinking it was going to be outdoors.

So after about a five minute stroll from the previous bath we were in.

It kind of looks like a little shrine or something after a slightly dangerous drive down the road.

Um and I've arrived at my Yukon for the night.

I'll show you guys the room after dinner.

I've got this private room all to myself and yeah, I think they're bringing the food in now smells amazing stuff here are so friendly.

I feel like people in quite, quite friendly and outgoing.

But she taught me a lot about the food here and she said that the cognac.

Ooh is like one of the main of Yamagata and you can see they've prepared it like sashimi basically.

Once you put the sauce on it does taste like like a Maduro sashimi.

This is so nice right now because that was so chilly from being on the snow so long and all the foods are nice and warm and yeah, so I'm going to enjoy my dinner and then I'll take you guys around my room later.

There's one interesting feature about it that you will see later.

Great quick room tour time because I'm gonna hop in the bath soon here.

There's always like a little area for eating your snacks and drinking tea.

But the best part is this, it's a heated carpet.

When I came in they already had it all heated up for me.

So I've just been lying on this all evening and through this store is actually entrance.

I didn't start in here because it's freezing cold.

So it's super cold but nothing too exciting in here.

I was like no I have to share with people.

But no, just wait there's actually a secret bath outside.

It's so cold out here but it's so pretty.

I can't believe I have a bath all to myself.

And the shower is also out here which will be very cold in the morning when I wash my hair but I can't complain because look how gorgeous that bath is.

So we're currently at Kami No Yama area and the water here is the exact opposite it to what it is in the sentences that were in earlier.

Whereas this water, as you can see is perfectly clear and it's very alkaline.

So it said that you're supposed to visit johnson first to exfoliate your whole body and then make the trip down here.

It's only like a 30 40 minute drive and enter the answer in here and moisturize your skin So it's really cool that there are two Ensign in the area in Yamagata here.