crumbling hotels stands like a relic of a forgotten past. A destination that once thrived as a hot spring resort during Japan’s bubble economy era of the 1980s, many parts of Kinugawa Onsen have ...

Referring to the unsuccessful attempts by Japanese hotel companies to enter the North American market during the Japanese asset bubble in the late 1980s, Hoshino added, “I believe that our onsen ...

Kinugawa Onsen thrived in the '80s but an economic downturn saw many of its hotels and ryokans abandoned. Now it's luring tourists back On the banks of the Kinugawa River in central Japan, a row of ...