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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Japan: Historic cultural properties...[516]

Historic hot spring resort and lighthouse named tangible cultural properties

The main building of the Tsuru no Yu hot spring inn in Semboku, Akita Prefecture. (Mainichi)

The main building of the Tsuru no Yu hot spring inn in Semboku, Akita Prefecture. (Mainichi)

The oldest red brick lighthouse in Japan and an Edo period hot spring were two of 135 buildings recently recommended for registration as tangible cultural properties.

The 9.7-meter-tall lighthouse was built in 1873 overlooking the Irago Channel into Ise Bay, while the main building of the Tsuru no Yu hot spring resort stands on a mountain in Semboku, Akita Prefecture.

"It's an old, simple building," says owner Kazushi Sato. "But I hope this wooden structure will continue to please the five senses."

Famous for its secret hot spring source and its beautiful seasonal vistas, the cloudy hot spring waters give the entire inn a resort feel. However, customers attempting to reserve one of the five rooms in the charming thatch-roofed inn's main building the maximum half-year in advance often find it already fully booked. There are a total of 35 rooms in the entire complex, and the hotel sees about 25,000 guests a year.

According to the prefecture's cultural asset preservation office, Akita's second feudal lord is said to have frequented the hot spring, and it has flourished as a health spa since the Edo period. The main building was probably rebuilt around the beginning of the Meiji period.

The commission also recommended registration for the family home of a noted Edo period soy sauce maker in Noda, Chiba Prefecture; Sakato Bridge in Nakagawa, Nagano Prefecture; and the Miyazaki Jingu Shinden, a Shinto shrine in Miyazaki Prefecture. Furthermore, it named the castle town of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the Obasute and Kashihara terraced rice fields in Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture and Kamikatsu, Tokushima Prefecture, and Nagasaki Prefecture's Hirado Island as cultural landscapes.

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