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A nature experience limited to one group per day, such as “sea of clouds monopoly” and “making colorful Baumkuchen with firewood”

2021.02.19

The Yunogo Onsen Ryokan Cooperative Association in Mimasaka City, Okayama Prefecture, will start five “living experiences” in early March, “limited to one group per day” to enjoy nature. We offer a variety of activities such as tea time in the sea of clouds, harvesting vegetables, and making colorful Baumkuchen. We will continue to collaborate with the local community to enhance attractive experience programs.

Beautiful skin hot water, toy town, delicious mountain sea

Mimasaka City is one of the leading hot spring countries in western Japan, with abundant nature. Among them, Yunogo Onsen is a famous hot spring (*) with a history of more than 1200 years. It is said that Jikaku Ennin was led by Shirasagi to discover it, and it has been popular with people as another name, “Sagi no Yu”, Yuji no Yu, and Bihada no Yu. There are three museums in the city: the Japan Museum of Contemporary Toys, the Music Box Yumekan, and the toy box of the day, the Showakan.

In addition to local mountain products, you can also enjoy seafood from both the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan. (* Spring quality: sodium, calcium chloride spring)

Avoiding the Three Cs, 5 "living experiences" unique to Yunogo Onsen

Now that the corona is bad, there is a tendency to hesitate to travel. For that reason, we would like many customers to enjoy a safe, secure, and memorable trip through the experience of living and hot springs, which is limited to one group per day. Five activities were born from such thoughts. I would like to become the second home of busy modern people who can enjoy the four seasons of Japan in spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Small room in the sky-herbal tea and sea of clouds-

Small room in the sky-herbal tea and sea of ​​clouds-
The best season for sea of ​​clouds is from October to November and from February to April. Especially in November, you can see it with a probability of 70% to 80%. Enjoy the waves of clouds as far as the eye can see outside the window and seasonal herbal teas. * Because of a natural phenomenon, there is a possibility that a sea of ​​clouds will not occur.

Vegetable harvesting experience & colorful Baumkuchen making experience
A “heartwarming house farm” that grows vegetables without using pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Fresh seasonal vegetable harvest full of vitality and slightly warm eggs of chickens running around vigorously. We will try to make colorful Baumkuchen where the natural colors of vegetables are fun. The taste of open-burned Baumkuchen using firewood is exceptional.

Picnic in the middle of the tea plantation>
Leave yourself in the sky and mountains of Kaita and the clear air of the fields, and have a tea time in the middle of the tea plantation. Here is a nostalgic place where old-fashioned nature and activities continue.

Colorful Baumkuchen making experience
Picnic in the middle of the tea plantation
"Country life experience"

Country life experience
Cut out a little bit of your daily life and divide it into hem. It is an experience that cannot be done in the city, such as chopping wood, sowing vegetables, picking edible wild plants, stepping on wheat, removing persimmons, and bonfire of fallen leaves.

Superb Shiitake Party
Mimasaka Shiitake Garden, a long-established Shiitake farm that has been in business for 58 years, has been visited by His Majesty the Emperor. Baking and eating the harvested shiitake mushrooms, searching for the best match seasoning … It is an experience to taste the best shiitake mushrooms.

>Price and other details
Reservation: TEL: 0868-72-2636 | Mail: info@spa-yunogo.or.jp
(Experience names, fees, etc. may change in the future)

Superb Shiitake Party

Yugo Onsen Ryokan Cooperative
Ten inns in Yugo Onsen, Mimasaka City, form a team to plan and execute various regional revitalization plans that bring out the charm of Yugo Onsen town by squeezing wisdom every day. Occasionally, we carry out new experience programs, and sometimes we carry out various activities to promote the revitalization of Yunogo Onsen and Mimasaka City as a whole, such as lighting up and events.

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