Access | Free bathing 24 hours per day!
Swimsuits used for mixed-bathing
Located in a ryokan
Address :
石川県珠洲市三崎町寺家10-11
Maps : Google
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Number of baths | | ♂ | ♀ | ♂♀ | inside | 1 | 1 | - | outside | 1 | 1 | 1 | + 1 family bath | The "konyoku" outside bath is in fact a pool (not warmed, and therefore not usable when the temperature drops down from autumn) where swimming costumes have to be worn. |
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The blue pool of the ryokan at night - note the kashikiri onsen on the small building above the water
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Global rating :  | | Yoshigawara onsen is located on the tip of Noto Peninsular. It is not really a town, not even a village, since there is only a single isolated ryokan called Lamp no Yado. The name comes from the fact that the ryokan used not to have electricity, and all lightening was made by oil lamps. Nowadays, you can still find those lights in the dining room, providing a warm light during the dinner, but the ryokan has all modern comfort. Indeed, it can be sorted in the "luxurious ryokan" category. While many luxurious ryokan nowadays try to include occidental design in their walls, Lamp no Yado is clearly sitting on the tradition side, and you could easily feel drawn back in the past to a bygone period when warriors came to Noto peninsula to escape death. Still, the presence of a large, almost mysterious pool in the middle of the ryokan will remind you that you are in the 21st century.
| | Size : | | The onsen are segregated, with one indoor and one outdoor bath for each gender. The main problem with those baths is... that they are not very large, unfortunately! Typically, the men's rotenburo can not really accomodate more than 3-4 persons at the same time. But the best part of the onsen is the private kashikiri bath, which is accessed by a bridge over the pool (3000 yen for 50 minutes). The small, dark building containing the bath is very atmospheric, and contains a small changing room with a transparent floor over the illuminated water of the pool. At night, the blue color of that pool is glowing at night into the changing room - with its red interior wall - leading to a fairy mixture of colors. You can enjoy the moment while sitting on the tatami mat. Or directly soak in the comfortable, rather large for 2 persons bath: open the large windows, and you will feel like in a rotenburo, with the Japan Sea in front of you. And to enhance the experience, the sea itself is illuminated by powerful projectors.
| View :  | | Rotenburo are facing the Japan Sea, and are even nicer at night, when illuminated by an orange lantern. The female's one is in fact an artificial cave, which remove lots of the spirit one can expect from a rotenburo.
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| | Area : | | Yoshigawara Onsen is located at the north-east tip of the Noto Peninsula. Completely "off the beaten tracks", the area will provide plenty of attractions for curious visitors with some time to wander around.
Visit the Secret Japan forum for a guide of Noto Peninsula : Lamp no Yado Ryokan |
Inside family bath | | 
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