Kourakukan (Nagano-kenJigokudani) [Hot springs deep inside Japan]

The Characteristic

It is an isolated lodge of the hidden hot spring which cannot go from a jigokudani parking lot if you do not walk by 30 on foot abbreviation from the Kamibayashi mouth in winter for about 15 minutes in summer.The wooden building which a Snow Monkey flies about and meets a roof and feels an age is also the hidden hot spring itself.In the open-air bath of mixed bathing, if it is bathing in mixed company frequently also with a monkey and enters together, it will just nature and really be experience which it has only here in the world in the morning of winter.A hot spring wells ups and spreads from a base rock here and there, and all the baths of hot water quantity are free-flowing hot-spring water abundant.It seems that each home-made dish centering on the wild grass in character with in this mountain is very delicious, and there are many people who stay and refresh.The difficulty of the band saw of the warehouse seen at the first chip box to visit performing an inn at this place and the rich life to which a splendid cactus which is not seen in the village of a husband's hobby was blessed with the hot spring were taught.

The Kourakukan of winter, a complete view


Wooden attractive point enough inside of a hall.


Local Tamamura brewing, a careful distillation fresh sake
"If it is these alcoholic drinks, I would like to come to drink every day."


The brewing beer, deep Germany taste.


Mixed bathing open-air bath


Family bath.


The guest room by the side of a sprushing-hot-spring good-location-to-see Yokoyu river.

Dish

Handmade country-style dishes and か are also a cooked in a pot/boar stew.

Above: A hot-pot dish with duck meat and vagetables, a carp raw fish slice cooled in a water, and a char dish grilled with salt
Below: The Shiga Heights root bend Take simmered dishes and tempura

Meal Place

Material
The carp and the char, the foliage plant wild grass and wild banboo sprout of circumference fields and mountains, wild duck which make the Shiga Heights the location of a hot spring

an Example
Chawan-mushi, a carp raw fish slice cooled in a water, a hot-pot dish with duck meat and vagetables, simmered dishes, tempura, a char dish grilled with salt, pickles and an egg (for the rice gruel behind a cooked in a pot)
Meal place
Every morning and evening restaurant

Handmade breakfast, such as bamboo shoot simmered dishes and a salad

Rates

* Please refer to the above-mentioned plan list.

Indoor Hot Spring

Man and woman each 1

a ceiling -- high -- the bath structure of a Log structure

It is [ whenever / source temperature-of-spring ] high, and a water running.
12:00 - one day trip bathing, and adult [ of 600 yen ] and child of 300 yen 15:00

Open-air Bath

Only the mixed bathing 1, for [ 1 ] a woman

Family Bath

Hydrogen sulfide odor is comparatively strong and two and a family bath are curdy mineral-rich sediments.

Guest Room

12 rooms, 40 persons

Kajika-frog chirp night, a June.

Institution

A stand, a rest station
They are 14 mats (a table tennis room, the game of go, mah-jongg, shogi) between 42 large rooms and Nakahiro.

Near Station

Yudanaka -> bus -> kanbayashi bus stop (terminal)
Nagano station -> express bus Shiga Heights going -> kanbayashi mouth bus stop

- Top - Yamanouchimachi, Shimo-Takai-gun, Nagano-ken jigokudani
Telephone 0269-33-4376
FAX0269-33-3244

Welcome and Send-off

Nothing

Parking Lot

■ Kourakukan parking lot (@ kanbayashi prepared Izumi-dori year) : it becomes a space in front of the warehouse between a Snow-Monkey-Park parking lot and Mr. Enza cafe.Please ask the official in charge the place to stop in a Snow-Monky-Park parking lot.The Korakukan's parking lot at Kanbayashi is located between the Snow-Monkey-Park parking lot and Enza Cafe.Please ask a staff of Monkey-Parkwhere to park.The parking is marked on this map.http://yahoo.jp/l5HyO5It take about 30 to 40 minutes on foot to reach Korakukan.It better to deposit your belongings at Nagano station orYudanaka station.Please prepare snow boots and/or trekking pole.Please arrive by 4 PM.It's Getting Dark.around.5 PM.If you take a rental car in winter time then we recommend 4WD with stud less snow tires,because the slope at Kambayashi might be freezing.
■ Jigokudani toll parking lot (only a shibu mouth and a summer 4 / 1 - 11/30) : about 1 km which goes into the left from the upper part of a shibu.The standard-sized car of 500 yen.