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Old Aug 20, 2006 | 5:12 am
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jpatokal
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Originally Posted by michaelcoyote
a ladyfriend and I did Kinugawa Onsen (up in Tochigi) and surrounding areas in late October.
YMMV, but Kinugawa is probably the most depressing town I've been to in Japan (and I've done a fair bit of poking about in the boonies). Once-beautiful valley covered in concrete, tons of rotting hotel corpses and rusty restaurant shells, the few remaining hotels eking out a living by offering karaoke girls to go along with your bath. Some pics you won't find in tourist brochures:

http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/...anto/Kinugawa/
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