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steve y
Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:41 am

Re: Yamada Onsen
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Thanks Alessandro!
  I'll report back after our stay.  I just called Taki-no-yu and the woman on the phone was very friendly and welcoming, so we're off to a good start.
  Separately, do you know an onsen called Otari Onsen, in the mountains up from route 148 north of Hakuba (my old map shows it on a route 330)? My wife and I stayed there about 20 years ago (way pre-kids). The baths weren't rotemburo, but the building was a classy 100-year-old classical ryokan and I recall the drive there being beautiful and remote. 
   Cheers,
   Steve