Sentence examples for hot spring resort from inspiring English sources
For locals here, the planned development — vacation homes for rich Chinese — is a welcome infusion of capital into a town that has been in decline since its heyday in the 1980s as a hot spring resort.
Once a thriving hot spring resort, Misasa attracted almost 600,000 tourists a year in Japan's bubble era, drawn by attractions including a spa-themed amusement park.
We stayed the night at a seedy hot spring resort, called a "Green Center," where old folks would gather to drink and be entertained.
Some workers at Iwaki-Yumoto traveled here from as far away as Kyushu, over 600 miles away, transforming the little hot spring resort into a major hub for migrant labor.
However, a mere hour on a bullet train from the capital is the hot spring resort of Hakone, where visitors come to soak in volcanic geothermal pools on a jungle-clad mountain.
After coming ashore and passing through immigration, the visitors were taken by tour bus through a winding road leading to the village of Onjongi, once a hot spring resort that is now the starting point for these Mount Kumgang tours.
In Yuzawa City, for example, existing and prospective geothermal power generation facilities typically are close to the hot spring resorts.
Here the destination is of a more earthly order: pleasant and isolated onsen, or natural hot spring resorts.
"Japan has 10 percent of the world's volcanic activity, so I think there is the possibility for more development," said Kengo Aoyama, engineering section chief of the Yanaizu-Nishiyama geothermal plant, located here in an area filled with hot spring resorts.
SHIRETOKO NATIONAL PARK, Japan — Once prohibitively expensive, Japan is suddenly drawing soaring numbers of Asian tourists who splurge at the nation's department stores, lounge in its hot spring resorts or explore remote corners, like this stretch of pristine mountains and forests on Japan's northernmost tip.
Kirishimayama is one of famous sightseeing areas in Kyushu, and has many hot spring resorts.
