Kurokawa Onsen
onsen
Kurokawa Onsen
黒川温泉
Overview
Aso-highlands onsen village with 30 wooden ryokan, 26 baths reachable on a wooden bath pass, and a no-chain-store rule that keeps the night quiet enough to hear the river.
A small mountain onsen village in the Aso highlands of Kumamoto, where 30 ryokan share a single river and a wooden bath-pass system that lets visitors walk between three baths in a day. Every ryokan opens its outdoor baths to outside guests, with cave baths, riverside baths, and forest baths filling the half-kilometer between the public Jizoyu and Anayu bath houses. The village resists modern signage and chain stores, keeping the night quiet enough to hear the river.
Local tips
Buy the 1,500 yen Nyuto-tegata bath pass at any tourist info desk for three baths plus a snack stop. Tie the used disk at Jizoson shrine when you finish.
Practical info
- Japanese name
- 黒川温泉
- Nearest station
- Aso Station (50 min bus)
- Reservations
- not required
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