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<\/a><\/p>\nWe rode in a limited express train named “Konotori” (Stork) which left at 9:10 am from JR Osaka Station and reached “Kinosaki Onsen” station around noon.<\/p>\n
The left is a map of “Kinosaki Onsen.”<\/p>\n
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“Kinosaki Onsen” station.<\/p>\n
We saw a bronze statue of a stork, which is a symbol of this town, when entering the ticket barrier (wickets).<\/p>\n The shopping street near the JR station crossed a river (Otani river) when we walked for a few minutes from the station.<\/p>\n Three-story wooden buildings (which are Japanese-style hotels) stood on both sides of the Onati river, willow trees\u00a0were lined along the river. Here is the center of “Kinosaki Onsen.”<\/p>\n “Kinosaki Onsen” is famous for “Soto-Yu* meguri (tour).” The town has 7 “Soto-Yu” houses. If you stay a hotel in the town, you can get a free ticket for entering the 7 “Soto-Yu” houses.<\/p>\n *Soto-Yu: A public bath house having no lodging facility, located in a spa town.<\/p>\n The following photographs show the entrances of the 7 “Soto-Yu” houses in “Kinosaki Onsen.”<\/p>\n A boy looked at the river, and so I also looked\u00a0at the river. Gorgeous carps were swimming leisurely in the river.<\/p>\n This is the “Shisho” Jinjya (Shinto shrine).<\/p>\n The fine Japanese-style hotel is “Nishimuraya.”<\/p>\n This is “Mikiya” at which Shiga Naoya<\/a>, who is a famous Japanese novelist, wrote “Kinosaki nite (at Kinosaki).”<\/p>\n As we walked along the main street of the town, we finally arrived at an old Buddhist temple, “Onsenji.”\u00a0The “Onsenji” temple has precincts extending throughout\u00a0the mountain, in which\u00a0the Yakushi-do hall stands at the lower part of the mountain,\u00a0the main hall and a two-storied pagoda stands at the middle part, and\u00a0the inner hall stands\u00a0on the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n This is “Nio-mon,” a temple gate guarded by two\u00a0Nio<\/a>\u00a0(guardia) statues.<\/p>\n The Yakushi-do hall, deifying Yakushi Nyorai (Bhaisajyaguru<\/a>), had extravagant paintings on the ceiling.<\/p>\n We went to the top of the mountain by cable car (Kinosaki Onsen Ropeway). It took about\u00a010 minutes to reach the top. The gradient was so sharp!<\/p>\n The view of “Kinosaki Onsen” from the top of the mountain. As you see this angle, “Kinosaki Onsen” is formed in a valley between two rivers. Sea of Japan can be seen\u00a0on the left side of the photograph.<\/p>\n “Onsenji” temple has the old wooden buildings (It is said that the “Nio-mon” and the two-story pagoda\u00a0were built about 300 years ago, and the “Yakushi-do” hall and the main hall were built about 700 years ago), which are worth seeing.<\/p>\n This is the sealed calligraphy of the Onsenji Temple.<\/p>\n We toured “Kinosaki Onsen” to visit the “Soto-Yu” at night. The streetlights were lit up, the light flowed from the Japanses-style hotels, and\u00a0tourists in yukata* peacefully walked along the street, this is just the atmosphere of “Kinosaki Onsen.”<\/p>\n *Yukata<\/a>: An informal cotton kimono for summer wear<\/p>\n On the next morning, we took a stroll before breakfast.<\/p>\n The cycling tournament was to be held on that day.<\/p>\n This road is a cherry-tree-lined path. There were many monuments on which poems were written.<\/p>\n In September, we visited “Kinosaki Onsen” (Kinosaki hot spring)\u00a0having a history of about 1300 years and being visited by many famous Japanese writers and artists. 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