Yamato Onsen; Yasuragikan

Yamato Onsen Yasuragikan — 'Great Harmony Hot Spring Peace Hall' — is a thermal bathing and rest facility in Gujō city in the Hida-Mino highlands of Gifu prefecture, Japan, situated in a mountain landscape between the Takayama basin and the Nagara River valley where the combination of clear Hida mountain streams, traditional thatched-roof farmhouses preserved at the Gujō Hachiman folk museum, and the natural hot spring resources of the Gifu highlands create a destination of exceptional natural and cultural richness. Gujō is celebrated across Japan for the Gujō Odori — the most famous continuous folk dance festival in Japan, danced through the nights of the Bon season by local people and visitors alike without distinction — and for the extraordinary replica food display manufacturing tradition that supplies Japan's restaurant industry with the iconic plastic food models found in almost every Japanese restaurant window. Yamato Onsen provides simple mineral spring bathing in the traditional Gujō mountain landscape, offering the restorative thermal bathing that complements the cultural vitality of one of the Chubu region's most distinctive inland communities.