Fresh Hot Spring Water and Relaxing Comforts Hokkaido’s Nukabira Hot Spring: Nakamura-ya Inn Between the cities of Obihiro and Aasahikawa and blanketed in the crisp cool Hokkaido air on the side of Mt. Taisetsu lies the Nukabira Hot Spring Resort. The resort is surrounded by a forest of Japanese white birch trees and is home […]
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