Ginzan Onsen has become such a hotspot that it has begun restricting visitors amid concerns about overtourism. Once a busy silver mine, and later acclaimed for its Western-style wooden inns ...

Locals in Ginzan Onsen have experienced everything from verbal abuse to an infringement on emergency services, and these new measures will be in place until the spring Anyone who was raised on ...

Ginzan Onsen, located in the mountains of Yamagata Prefecture, is one of Japan’s most beautiful hot spring neighborhoods. It’s especially breathtaking in the winter months, when the rows of ...