Take-no-Yu Onsen
Azabu Juban’s Hot Spring with Black Water
7 min readJul 3, 2017
Ever since hitting up Kusatsu Onsen, I’ve been on a real hot spring kick. I have been visiting as many onsen as time allows. As such you can imagine my delight when I found that Azabu Juban, an area I have lived in for nearly ten years, has its own secret onsen! Known as Take-no-Yu, this hidden gem has been in business since 1913 and has been a well guarded…