Kinosaki Onsen Mikiya

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Kinosaki Onsen is Japan's most charming onsen town — a narrow willow-lined canal street with seven distinct public bathhouses, where guests don yukata robes and wooden geta sandals to walk between baths in the evening. Shosetsuka Shiga Naoya famously wrote his novel 'At Kinosaki' while recovering here in 1913, cementing its literary reputation. Mikiya is a traditional inn of considerable refinement, positioned on the canal street with some of Kinosaki's finest kaiseki cooking, private in-room baths, and warm personalized service. The experience of yukata-clad guests padding between seven bathhouses in the twilight, paper lanterns reflected in the canal water, is uniquely Kinosaki.

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