I introduce my favorite hot spring, Hatgo in Gunma Prefecture. It's located off the beaten track.

I'm impressed recent hot spring accommodations. Hatago is not just an accommodation but a village. With an area of 20 acres, they provide hot springs, accommodations, museums of traditional crafts such as furnitures, armors, swords, live performances of handmade soba, and rice cake pounding. The area is only for the village. Nothing is around the village.

About 30 rooms are available, and some of them have hot springs inside of the rooms. My room was 40 square meters approximately and pure Japanese style, but I felt fresh and stylish sense due to Ryukyu tatami mat. The room also had a lofted room, which was called "moon viewing room".

There are several hot springs inside of the village. One of them, "water fall viewing hot spring", is comfy, but my recommendation is "chartered open-air bath" with 2000 yen extra charge. I felt a sense of liberation a lot.

Meals depend on seasons. Basically they prepare grilled meals for dinner, and Grilled sweetfish with salt is amazingly delicious. Fresh laid eggs are distributed at the entrance in the morning, and pour the egg on the rice. Miso soup, grated yam soup, pickles are together. This is typical Japanese breakfast, but it's obviously different from home-cooked meal. Remarkably a building for breakfast differs from a building for dinner, so I can enjoy the view with meals.

I rarely want to go to same hot springs. However I wanna go to Hatago again.