Tsuetate Onsen (杖立温泉) 杖立温泉
No room for poles: three thousand carp hang from ropes stretched between the inns.
A hot-spring resort on the border between Kumamoto and Oita, along the Tsuetate River.
Kumamoto
杖立 (Tsuetate)
Suzume
The third of the hot springs named as a model for the ‘Monami’. What makes it recognisable is not a single shot but the coexistence of ruined ryokan and ryokan still in business, which really is found here.
