Last night, I stayed at an onsen hotel in Katayamazu, Ishikawa Prefecture. The hotel - Kasuikyo stood right by Shibayama Lagoon. The hot spring was very nice and the dinner was fantastic at the resort hotel.
Hot water spring of Katayamazu was discovered in 1653, but the development as a resort did not happen until late in the ninteenth century.
Benzaiten (or Benten-sama) is celebrated in the Ukimido (floating shrine). The legend says that a terrible dragon came to this region every night to destroy houses and kill people. The Benten-sama appeared and saved the village.
Old photos from earlier twentieth century were displayed at the hotel - show earlier days of the onsen resort:
Hot water spring of Katayamazu was discovered in 1653, but the development as a resort did not happen until late in the ninteenth century.
The hotel I stayed is the semi-circular 8-story building on the center-right.
Benzaiten (or Benten-sama) is celebrated in the Ukimido (floating shrine). The legend says that a terrible dragon came to this region every night to destroy houses and kill people. The Benten-sama appeared and saved the village.
Old photos from earlier twentieth century were displayed at the hotel - show earlier days of the onsen resort:
An old bus
The resort in early the early days.
Shibayama Lagoon seen from my airplane leaving near-by Komatsu Airport for Tokyo this afternoon.
Mout Haku or Haku-san, the highest mountain in Ishikawa as seen from my airplane window.
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