No room for poles: three thousand carp hang from ropes stretched between the inns.
The water comes out at about a hundred degrees at the bottom of a narrow gorge, home to nineteen inns and five public baths. For the koinobori, the cloth carp raised on poles in May, there was no room here, and fifty years ago the innkeepers began hanging them on ropes from one bank to the other. From 1 April to 6 May, between three thousand and three thousand five hundred of them fly.
A hot-spring resort on the border between Kumamoto and Oita, along the Tsuetate River.
🚉 杖立 (Tsuetate) · 82 min walk
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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.
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