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The hot springs located to the west of Hanamaki City are together called the Hanamaki Hot Springs. There are many types of facilities such as large hotels and traditional inns. Daytime bathing admission ranges from 200 yen to 1,200 yen.
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Osawa Hot Spring has three buildings: a modern inn, a thatched-roof inn, and a building with a kitchen where guests can cook for themselves.. There is a great outdoor bath facing a river. The Konsei Festival on April 29 is a unique Shinto ritual in which women wash a phallic figure in the hot spring.
Simple alkaline spring: effective for neuralgia, joint pain, bruises, digestive disorders, poor circulation, etc
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Visitors to Minamisanriku may also wish to visit Kaminoyama Park on the hilltop at the center of town from where they can survey the extent of the damage caused by the disaster. The small, grassy park lies on the grounds of a former castle and served as a refuge during the tsunami.
Other casualties of the tsunami include Shizugawa Station, Minamisanriku's former train station, and the railway line that ran through the town. A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system has since been set up with the new Shizugawa BRT Station further inland. Next to the bus station is the Sun Sun Shopping Village, a recovery market of about 30 shops and restaurants set up in temporary buildings, which serve both locals and tourists.
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Hachimantai Aspite Line (Alpine Route)
Hachimantai spreads out between Iwate and Akita prefectures. Visitors can view untouched wilderness, virgin forests of Aomori white fir and beech trees, wetlands, and volcanic steam area.
In Hachimantai the year beings in mid-April, when the Aspite Line is opened. Both sides of the road are bordered with huge walls of snow, making it into a snow corridor that can only be experienced this time of year. Hachimantai is also distinguished as being a treasure trove of alpine plants. In the spring flowers bud everywhere, as if they had been waiting impatiently for the snow to melt. As summer arrives flowers of all sorts continue to bloom one after another. There are more than 500 different types, and on the walking path around the peak of Hachimantai you can see 150 different species of alpine plants.
The Hachimantai peak walking course takes about an hour to complete. It starts at a rest house, snakes around Hachiman lake and Mikaeri pass in a ciruit. The walking path is well made, and no special equipment is needed. You can walk the course casually, and during the green season it is popular among the elderly.
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