Norikura Goyuin Meguri 2025-2027

御湯印めぐり乗鞍 (Norikura Goyuin Meguri) is a stamp round through のりくら温泉郷 (Norikura Onsen-kyo, the Norikura hot spring village), the highland settlement spread under Mount Norikura in Matsumoto, Nagano. It is run by the のりくら観光協会 (Norikura Tourism Association) and runs from October 1, 2025 to October 31, 2027.

A goyuin (御湯印) is a hot spring seal, borrowed from the goshuin (御朱印) stamps that pilgrims collect at shrines and temples. You keep them in a booklet, and the booklet is the point: it turns a few nights in one valley into something you finish.

Three springs in one village

Most onsen villages have one source. Norikura has three, close enough together that you can bathe in all of them over a weekend, and different enough that you notice.

• 乗鞍高原温泉 (Norikura Kogen Onsen) is the big one, a sulfur spring that runs a cloudy milky white. It supplies most of the village.
• すずらん温泉 (Suzuran Onsen) is a simple spring (tanjun onsen, 単純温泉), soft and gentle on the skin. It is named for the suzuran (すずらん), the lily of the valley that grows in the highland meadows.
• 安曇乗鞍温泉 (Azumi Norikura Onsen) is a bicarbonate spring, the kind Japan calls a bijin no yu (美人の湯), a "beauty bath", for the slippery feel it leaves on the skin. One facility draws it.

This is why the rules are built the way they are. Completing the round is not about volume, it is about not spending all your nights in the same water.

How it works

You do not need a seal from every facility. Four is the number. Around 60 places can issue one, and you pick any four that meet the two conditions below. The roster is a menu, not a checklist.

1. Stay a night at an onsen lodging in the village. That is where you get the 御湯印帳 (goyuincho, the stamp booklet). You cannot start the round on a day trip.
2. Collect goyuin as you go. Around 60 bathing and lodging facilities in the village issue them, and there is a separate 御湯印札 (goyuin-fuda) tablet for day-use soaks, so a bath you drop into counts even if you are not sleeping there.
3. Eat, and that counts too. Roughly 20 restaurants in the village hand out a 御湯印めし札 (goyuin meshi-fuda), a meal tablet. Those are not baths, so they are not listed on this page, but they count toward your total.
4. Reach 満願 (mangan, completion). Three conditions, all of them:
   • stay two or more nights at onsen lodgings,
   • bathe in two or more of the three spring types,
   • collect four or more goyuin.
5. Claim the prize. Finishers get the のりくら温泉郷 original tenugui (手ぬぐい), a printed cotton hand towel.

Because a stay, a day-use soak and a meal all produce a tablet, there is no fixed route. Four seals across two nights is a comfortable long weekend, and you can build it however you like.

A worked example

Two nights, four seals, both conditions met:

• Night one at any inn on 乗鞍高原温泉, the sulfur spring. Seal 1 (stay).
• Dinner at a participating restaurant. Seal 2 (meal tablet).
• Next day, a day-use soak at 湯けむり館. Seal 3 (day-use tablet).
• Night two at an inn on すずらん温泉 or 安曇乗鞍温泉. Seal 4 (stay), and this is the one that satisfies the two-spring rule.

That is 満願. The only thing worth planning is the second spring: nearly everything in the village runs on 乗鞍高原温泉, so your second water has to be a deliberate choice.

The roster on this page

Onsen Oni lists the bathing and lodging facilities, grouped by which of the three springs they draw from, using the tourism association's own classification. The participating restaurants are part of the rules, as above, but they are not onsen places, so they are not in the list.

The list is there so you can see which spring each facility draws from, since that is the one thing the completion rule constrains.

The village's public day-use bath, 乗鞍高原温泉 湯けむり館 (Yukemuri-kan), is included: it is the main place to collect a day-use 御湯印札 without booking a room, and its milky sulfur water is the classic Norikura soak, with Mount Norikura visible from the open-air bath.

The wider Goyuin Meguri network

御湯印めぐり is not one national program but a framework, coordinated by an agency in Gifu and adopted region by region. Each region sets its own roster, period, rules and prize, and they meet at a 御湯印めぐりサミット (Goyuin Meguri Summit). Norikura's edition is one of the longest running of the current set, at two years and a month.