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Kita Onsen Ryokan

The Nasu Region’s Hot Spring Shangri-La

Donny Kimball
12 min readDec 11, 2022

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Kita Onsen Ryokan is a Japanese hotel in Tochigi that has many a room that dates from the Edo period but you can’t pay for a room with credit card
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

As I write this article in my head, I am soaking away all of my worldly concerns at Kita Onsen Ryokan in Tochigi Prefecture’s Nasu region. As I begin to boil in the 43° C waters, I slowly stop fretting about that one Google Ads campaign that isn’t performing well enough (and other such…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/