Kurokawa Onsen Guide
The Village
Plan Your Visit
Getting There
Where to Stay
Best time to visit
Kurokawa has no bad season; cedar, river, and hot water work year-round. What changes is contrast, color, and competition for roughly 300-odd beds. This calendar weighs all three, because in a village this small, when you can book is half of when you should go.
By season
Best time
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Yuakari lanterns
Trip planning
Worth it?
How long to stay
1-night plan
2-day plan
Things to do
Day trips
FAQ
The baths run year-round. What you come for changes with the season.
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Kurokawa Onsen: The Complete Guide
A wooden pass buys three baths from twenty-four inns. The innkeepers agreed, decades ago, to look like this.
The place
The complete guide
The revival story
The waters, inn by inn
Food & kaiseki
Yukata & town
The baths
Best rotenburo
The tegata pass
Private & mixed baths
Bath etiquette
Tattoo-friendly
Thirty inns in a wooded gorge, and a village that agreed to look like one.
How to Get to Kurokawa Onsen
No train reaches Kurokawa. One direct bus from Fukuoka runs the three hours to the village, and every other route ends on the same mountain road.
Step by step
How to get here
From Fukuoka
From Kumamoto
From Aso
From Beppu & Yufuin
No train reaches Kurokawa. Every route ends on a road through the hills.
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Where to Stay: Ryokan Guide
Choosing
Ryokan guide
Best ryokan
Luxury
Budget
Private-bath stays
The inns
Sanga
Fujiya
Kurokawa-sō
Oku-no-Yu
Yamamizuki
Shinmeikan
Sleep in the village and the baths are a walk in yukata, not a drive.
All places to stay
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WHERE TO STAY
Every place to stay within reach of Jigokudani, in one place.
Ryokan
