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Zao Onsen
Even if you do not have beautiful facial features, people say you’re beautiful if you have beautiful skin, right? Zao Onsen is very famous for “beauty-making hot spring.” Zao Onsen is located in the southeastern part of Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, at the western foot (elevation 880m) of the Mount Zao range. It has been called “Takayu” for a long time, and it is the old hot spring with major five hot spring groups and 47 hot springs. Its history is more than 1900 years. The hot spring town of Zao Onsen has many hot spring facilities for a day trip, such as public baths and footbaths. So, even if […]
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What are the three conditions for forming Rime on trees?
Tourists come to Zao from all over the world to see Rime on trees! “Rime on trees” is the winter feature of Zao, where is located on the border between Yamagata and Miyagi Prefectures. Rime on trees is the art of nature that can be only seen in a limited area in the world such as Mount Zao, Hakkoda mountains (Aomori Prefecture), Mount Moriyoshi (Akita Prefecture) and so on in Japan. They are called “ice monsters” or “snow monsters” because the shape of trees covered with ice and snow looks like monsters. The core of the Rime on trees is a coniferous tree called “Aomori Todomatsu (Abies mariesii)”. Without this […]