A couple days staying at Five Heads Onsen village in NiiGata
Guide for the Radium Onsen and Japanese Grace.
Five heads Onsen village is located down to the west of Gozu Mountain, beside of Agano River and are formed by Murasugi(村杉) onsen, Imaita(今板) onsen and De-yu(出湯) onsen. This onsen type is a radium spring which is very effective for a sickness treatment, especially a cancer.
In addition to the radium onsen bathing, you can relax your soul. And you were in Five heads Onsen village, you can step into Japanese grace world.
About this atmosphere of Japanese grace you feel in there, the origin goes back far beyond this. Niigata has been a fertile rice product area since the Edo period, even now .The Onsen of this area was known from 1200 years before, but a prosperity for a health back onsen resort as a hot spring cure and spa started at the first of the Meiji period. Many rich rice farmer, a big landowner and a new government official who live around Niigata area came to five heads Onsen village.
And according to those people, many writers and artists came frequently. It is pretty famous story that Duke Fumimaro Konoe who had 3 times Prime minister loved this place and came a lot. These historical accumulation and satoyama woodland’s nature make you feed that time is going slowly. Then you find the feeling in something with an old Japanese grace, this vibration from old Japanese grace is curing your soul.
There are 4 radium springs in japan and this area’s amount of radium containment can be said No.1 amount containment of 4 springs.
Access
| Name; | Gozu onsen |
| Place; | Agano city area , Niigata Prefecture |
| Access; | From Tokyo station, take the Jouetu Shinkansen to Niigata 1 H 40 min, change to local train(JR) to Niitu 20min, change(JR) to Mizuhara 10min.Agano city bus to Sugimura 27min. |
| more | free pick-up service in case of ryokan. |
Pick up service to Niigata station (needs reservation)
| Niigata sta. | 10:00 (for Day trip) | 13:30 | 16:00 |
| Tyoseikan | 9:00 | 11:00 | 15:00 (for Day trip) |
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