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title: Nozawa Onsen
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# Nozawa Onsen

Travel journal from Nozawa Onsen, with 9 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: The Ogama hot-spring source, The Oyu and the 13 sotoyu bathhouses, The village with onsen in its name, Onsen tamago boiled in the hot spring.

## Journeys

- [Boiling breakfast in a hot spring: life in Nozawa](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/nozawa/index.md): Life in Nozawa Onsen Village（2023-01-15）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Onsen tamago boiled in the hot spring](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onsen-tamago-boiled-in-the-hot/index.md): At the Ogama, the main source of Nozawa Onsen, water close to 90 degrees wells up, and locals have long boiled mountain vegetables and eggs in it.
- [Rice bowl with stir-fried nozawana, fried tofu and onsen tamago](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/rice-bowl-with-stir-fried-nozawana/index.md): Nozawana is said to descend from Tennoji turnip seeds that the priest of Kenmei-ji temple in Nozawa Onsen brought back from Kyoto in 1756.

## A little of each town’s story

- [The Ogama hot-spring source](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ogama-hot-spring-source/index.md): One of the springs that feed Nozawa Onsen, with water close to 90 degrees.
- [The Oyu and the 13 sotoyu bathhouses](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/oyu-and-the-13-sotoyu-bathhouses/index.md): Nozawa Onsen has 13 sotoyu, communal bathhouses, kept up by villagers through a system called yunakama.
- [The village with onsen in its name](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/village-with-onsen-in-its-name/index.md): Nozawaonsen, in Shimotakai District, Nagano, is the only village in Japan with onsen in its name.
- [Freshly boiled corn and sasa-dango](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/freshly-boiled-corn-and-sasa-dango/index.md): Eaten with the onsen tamago beside the Ogama.
- [Oyaki of Shinshu](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/oyaki-of-shinshu/index.md): One of Nagano's best-known regional foods: a wheat-flour dough wrapped around nozawana, seasonal vegetables or sweet bean paste, then baked or steamed.
- [Nagano's horse-meat culture](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/naganos-horse-meat-culture/index.md): Eating horse meat in Nagano is said to have begun in the late Meiji era, when aging farm horses were put to the table, and took root mainly in the central and southern parts of the prefecture.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Hatoguruma (izakaya)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hatoguruma/index.md): A tavern marked by a red lantern and a noren curtain.