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About a Ginzan-Onsen

It is the Ginzan-Onsen which the fantastic scenery that time-travelled spreads to there. It is the hot spring town where a wooden Japanese-style inn with a hot spring ranges in the both sides in a Ginzan- river there.

The fire burns in a gaslight when becoming the evening, and a fantastic Japanese emotion drifts there.

It is the atmosphere of the stage of Japanese famous animated movie ” Sen to Chihiro no Kami-kakushi “. That’s “Spirited Away“. It is the work of supervisor Hayao Miyazaki and studio Ghibli. Then, that is known as the shooting place of a Japanese national play ” Oshin “, too.

< Taking a walk course >

• Soto Zen Buddhism / Yakushiji / 33 best goddesses of mercy / 24th Kaminohata goddess of mercy / 曹洞宗・薬師寺 最上三十三観音 第24番上ノ畑観音
• Taisho-Roman-Kan / 大正ろまん館
• Ginzan-Onsen-Town / 銀山温泉街
• Hakugin-Park・ Hakugin-Fall / 白銀公園　白銀の滝
• Senshinkyo / 洗心峡
• Ginzan-Omokage-En・Silver tunnel / 銀山おもかげ園　銀坑道
• It is ” Oyado-Yanada-ya ” that we stayed./ 御宿 やなだ屋

It introduces a spot in a travel this time around the Ginzan-Onsen which we took a walk through.

Soto Zen Buddhism / Yakushiji / 33 best goddesses of mercy / 24th Kaminohata goddess of mercy / 曹洞宗・薬師寺 最上三十三観音 第24番上ノ畑観音

Official site of 33 best goddesses of mercy: https://www.mogami33.com/index.html

< History >

This district was the border of Dewa ‘s country before. A road didn’t develop these days.
It was very important that a road opened here. Takahashi Shinano of a powerful family in the land at that time enshrined a goddess of mercy for a traveller to wish for the safety.

It says then that it was built on the side on a road in a breast in a mountain but that ‘s is very old. A temple with small Zen Buddhism such as the Togen temple that is under Kan’ondou was managing Kan’ondou those days. After that, a chief priest had disappeared.

Here was a station in the inn of daimyos ‘s round-trip in the land with the important traffic before the Meiji restoration. A Takahashi family is a semi Honjin case and is attending a goddess of mercy since the grandfathers. Kaminohata was called Karuizawa crossing of Oshu-kaido, and the barrier of the Shogunate was placed before.

Taisho-Roman-Kan / 大正ろまん館 < Ginzan-Sightseeing center >

Official site of Taisho-Roman-Kan / 大正ろまん館 : http://ginzan-taishoromankan.jp/

Here is an eating place and gift shop. It is an outward appearance like the Taisho Era.

We came to have a launch.

My Philippine wife ate ” Tenpura-morisoba “. I ate ” Geso-ten-morisoba” ( does this seem the specialty of Yamagata? ). Either was very delicious.

Ginzan-Onsen-Town

Official site of Ginzan-Onsen: http://www.ginzanonsen.jp/

< History >

A Ginzan-Onsen is derived from the name of ” Enzawa silver mine ” that prospers formerly as a big silver mine at the Edo period early stages. A Ginzan is a silver mine.

The in of the Western-style wooden house multipleness built at the end of Japanese Taishou from a period at the Showa early stages can be built side by side along the both sides in a Ginzan-river and appreciate a traditional peculiar view in this Ginzan-Onsen.

Meiji

It was in the mountainous region which it entered from Oshu-kaido to for about 12 km, and a Ginzan-Onsen was necessary then on the bad road where the width is narrow and from Obanazawa, and 1 day more necessary in a rough road.

A population here decreased sharply after the decline of a Enzawa silver mine but the world was the cloudland blocked off, and the people were living, doing an inn and small business to a bather.

Taishou

In these times, a wooden house of a thatch roof and 2 -story inn stood in line but it was applied to most hot spring hotels in 1913 in the cataclysm of a Ginzan-river.

The amount of discharge of a spa decreased after that.
Then, the water in a river approached there.The temperature of a spa became low for that.
Then, an user in a spa decreased.

Showa early stages

A Enzawa silver mine monument was specified in 1985 with the historical site of a country. Becoming of the western style of a hot spring town calmed down after the Pacific War, and an outward appearance approached a Japanese style.

It established ” regulation of the save of a row of houses of a Ginzan-Onsen ” in 1986.
It decided to save and to utilize the inn which the taste is in to a sightseeing revival.

In 1999, excursionist ‘s number increased by ranging of the Superexpress.
It is doing an effort because it takes the hot spring town still that utilized a tradition.

Hakugin-Park・ Hakugin-Fall / 白銀公園　白銀の滝

The Ginzan-Onsen which a wooden inn stands in line in is the place which the Enzawa silver mine that was famous was as the Edo early stages, big silver mines in.

There is the tunnel that mines that silver. Around a Ginzan-river is a Hakugin-park.

An about 50 minutes taking a walk course is well-proportioned along that valley stream.
That is optimal for the enjoying the evening cool in the summer.

Fall in an entrance in this park falls from 22 meters of cliffs. Then, the manner of raising a splash of water is grand.

Senshinkyo / 洗心峡

This ravine is covered with the branch of a tree.
It improves a rock in a valley stream in under then, the interruption of the sunlight clashing sound of water. Also, it is said that this ravine was named because it seemed that it is the wind in the pines of a peak at a drought.

Then, that pure silence says that it gets a feeling that washes off the dirt of person ‘s heart.
Therefore, it says this gorge whole to be ” Senshinkyo / 洗心峡 “.

Ginzan-Omokage-En / 銀山おもかげ園

It heads for the image yard that becomes the mainness of the Hakugin-park whole when crossing a Kajika-bridge.

The bankhead and shaft of a funnel which the back isn’t known to are near to a wayside, and it can see them. The cold wind that spouts from the bankhead named ” we don’t know the summer ” delights the cool air.

Silver tunnel / 銀坑道

A trace in a baking trench and so on can be left here everywhere well and remember those days. A rock surface is lit here fascinatingly, and the chilly inside of a mine seems to be just a different world.

< History >

” Enzawa silver mine ” that is in Obanazawa City was one of the silver mines that mining is done from Muromachi era and it represents the Edo period.

At the golden age here, it was called Iwami-Ginzan in Shimane, Ikuno silver mine of Hyougo and 3 biggest silver mines. However, the silver quantity decreased after that, and in 1689, the big collapse occurred and became a ghost mine.

It is ” Oyado-Yanada-ya ” that we stayed./ 御宿 やなだ屋

Official site of Oyado-Yanada-ya :  https://yanadaya.com/

Here was small and was a very good inn. We could stay, relaxing absolutely.

Because a bath was reserved, it was possible to be bathed slowly with a us couple. This bath can be bathed for 24 hours.

My Philippine wife was affected much by a meal with the full-course dinner of the Japanese food.

There is little opportunity for us to eat the full-course dinner of the Japanese food. It is healthy and also about the Japanese food a look is very beautiful.Then, it is more delicious than anything!

My Philippine wife enjoyed the delicious taste of the Japanese food.

The steak of 5 ranks of A is left clearly in that memory after it went home, and my Philippine wife is saying ” I want to eat it again “.

Make the everyone opportunity and please try to come to the right or wrong, Ginzan-Onsen.

We think next time that we want to try to visit again around a snow scene.

YouTube：Video related to the Ginzan-Onsen of H&C channel

This video has an English caption.