[9 Locations] You can easily enjoy a footbath while strolling! Gero Onsen Footbath Tour

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​Gero Onsen has a history of over 1,000 years and is known as one of Japan's top three hot springs. It is a hot spring area that is easily accessible from Nagoya and is famous as a hot spring for beauty.

There are 9 Ashiyu (footbath) spots in the hot spring town of Gero Onsen, and you can easily enjoy Gero Onsen while taking a walk! This time, we would like to report on all 9 Ashiyus.

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2019.12.09

[Two days trip in Gero Onsen] Eat while strolling around with a footbath and fireworks!

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JR Takayama Main Line Gero Station

You can also rent bicycles in front of the station.

From Nagoya to Gero Onsen, it takes 1 hour and 40 minutes by express train. By car, it takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

There are 9 footbaths within walking distance. (Only “Gassho no Ashiyu”, “Geruma no Ashiyu”, and “Tanogami no Ashiyu” are a little far)

Since there are no towels in each footbath, so be sure to bring your own!

The first foot bath in Gero Onsen
"Sagi no Ashiyu"

Sagi no Ashiyu

The first to be created at Gero Onsen is the "Sagi no Ashiyu".

About 700 years ago, a white sagi (heron) swooped down to inform the villagers of the place where the hot spring springs. A simple footbath with a wooden bathtub and a bench with a rain cover.

It is a very popular footbath due to its location right next to the central parking lot.

[Sagi no Ashiyu]
Location: Next to the central parking lot (Yunoshima, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture)
Bathing: Available 24 hours
Fee: Free

Look for the white Venus!
"Venus Footbath"

Venus Footbath

Left) coffee milk ¥ 460 / Right) smoothie milk (strawberry) ¥ 530

A footbath built at the entrance of Shirasagi-no-Yu, a public bathhouse with an impressive European-style building. The white statue of Venus is the landmark! Because it can be entered in a circle, it is popular among groups and families.

In front of you is the new spot "GEROGERO Milk Stand" that just opened in 2019, so many people were enjoying the footbath while drinking coffee milk or smoothies.

[Venus Footbath]
Location: Shirasagi-no-Yu Entrance (Yunoshima, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture)
Bathing: Available 24 hours
Fee: Free

While eating the specialty soft-serve ice cream,
Enjoy footbath
"Ashiyu Village Yuamiya"

Ashiyu Village Yuamiya

Ontama soft-served ice cream ￥420

A footbath in the storefront of "Gero Onsen Ashiyu Village Yuamiya". Yuamiya is a store where you can taste sweets unique to the hot spring resort and find a wide selection of Gero souvenirs.

It is a promise to soak while eating the new sensation sweet "Ontama Soft (420 yen)", which is a fusion of hot spring eggs made in Gero Onsen and cold soft serve ice cream. A footbath while enjoying cool sweets is exceptional!

[Ashiyu Village Yuamiya]
Place: 801-2 Yunoshima, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture
Bathing: Available 24 hours
Fee: Free
Regular holiday: Irregular holidays

http://yuamiya.co.jp/index.html

Located in Gero Onsen Gassho Village
"Gassho no Ashiyu"

Gassho no Ashiyu

​Gero Onsen Gassho Village is a tourist facility that recreates a village with 10 gassho-zukuri buildings, centering on the Nationally Designated Important Cultural Property of Japan, the Former House of the Oto Family, which was relocated from Shirakawa-go.

There is even a footbath in Gassho Village!

The bathhouse has a cool and refreshing structure with cypress wood for the enclosing wooden walls and sitting boards and creek stones for the hot water outlet, and is large enough to accommodate 16 people at a time. Every year, on the day of the winter solstice, it becomes a "yuzu footbath.

[Gassho no Ashiyu]
Location: 2369 Mori, Gero City, Gifu Prefecture
Bathing: 8:00-17:00
Fee: 800 yen entrance fee required
Closed: Open all year round

http://www.gero-gassho.jp/