Alexey Lopato 🐻
A sibling of the well-known higaeri spot Manza Kogen Hotel 万座高原ホテル. Got a discount on Booking and free shuttle from Karuizawa. There's a ski resort nearby and a stamp rally with a surprise Konosuba collab. If you stay here, you can go to the onsen at Manza Kogen Hotel 万座高原ホテル for free. A bus runs every hour between the hotels, which are 150 meters apart. About the onsens: men have 2 baths — one at 37 and one hot at 40-41. There's a mixed bath. Women have 2 onsens (2 changing rooms). One bath is separate in one onsen area. The second onsen has 2 baths plus access to the mixed zone. In the mixed zone you either need to cover up with towels or buy shorts or a bathing dress. A fun detail: there's no wall between the mixed zone and the men's baths, so men always have to cover up with towels. But between the mixed zone and the women's section there is a wall. The highlight is the view from the baths of snowy mountains like in the 2nd photo. 3rd photo is from Manza Kogen Hotel 万座高原ホテル. Frog at Manza-Kazawaguchi Station 万座・鹿沢口駅. The hotel.