| Short Stroll in Yumoto Hot Spa |
All of the following three courses start from Nikko Yumoto Visitors'
Center, which is located in the central Yumoto. It takes you less
than 1 hour to finish.
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| 1. Slope
Course |
| *Course
Information |
You will storoll the slope, which becomes skiing area in the winter.
You will see plants of Yotsubamidori, No-azami, Onishimotsuke.
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| *Time required |
Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center (There is a rest room), 3 minutes, (Walk
for the lake side on the front road), Kohanbashi (Bridge of lakeside),
12 minutes (Camping area is seen on the left. Go out to Yumoto Lodge.
Go for the slope then.) Yumoto Onsen Skiing Area, 15 minutes (Turn
left at the post of climbers' cards. Go into the mountain path then.)
Meiji Skiing Bridge, 15 minutes (Go south to come back passing through
the Shiranesou Inn) Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center
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The slope will be full of
flower garden except skiing season.
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| 2. Onsenji Temple course |
| *Course
Information |
This course is to follow the roots of Yumoto Hot Spa that Priest Shoto
found. Onsen Shrine and Onsenji Temple are derived from find of the
hot spring. |
| *Time required |
Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center (There is a rest room.) ¨5 minutes,
Bus stop of Kohanmae (Infront of the lakeside) 3 minutes, Onsen Shrine,
5 minutes, Yunodaira Marsh, source of the hot spring, 3 minutes, Onsenji
Temple, 10 minutes (Go for Yamabiko Inn. Turn left at Yumoto Onsen
Station then.) Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center
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Approach of Onsenji Temple
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| 3. Go round the Usagijima Peninsula |
| *Course Information |
The Usagijima is only one peninsula in the Lake Yunoko. Usagi means
rabbit in Japanese. Figure of the peninsula looks like an ear of the
rabbit. There is a marsh on the joint of the peninsula. |
| *Time required |
Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center (There is a rest room.) 5 minutes, Bus
stop of Kohanmae (In front of the lakeside) 10 minutes, Literary monument
of Zenzou Kasai, 2 minutes, Usagijima Marsh (Walk on wooden path in
the marsh) ) 20 minutes (Go round the Usagi Peninsula after the marsh.
Please watch out your step.) Literary monument of Zenzou Kasai, 10
minutes (Come back on the same road) Kohanmae bus stop, 5 minutes,
Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center
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Usagijima marsh and wooden path
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