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Yamagata · Japan
In the destination Ginzan Onsen and Yamadera.
In the photo: Canal and bridges of Ginzan Onsen’s street, in Obanazawa.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Obanazawa is a town in northern Yamagata known for snow, watermelons and buckwheat, and above all for Ginzan Onsen, the hot-spring village of three- and four-story wooden inns in the Ginzan River valley, about 15 km from the town center. At the far end of the village are the Shirogane waterfall and the old Nobesawa silver mine.
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The local experience
A hot-spring village in a narrow valley, with three- and four-story wooden ryokan from the 1910s and 1920s lining both sides of the Ginzan River, short bridges, gas lanterns at night and heavy snow in winter.
Ruins of the silver mine that gave rise to Ginzan Onsen, high in the valley, with tunnels cut into the rock that can be seen from inside at the end of a trail that passes Shirogane Falls.
Beyond the guide
