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A hot spring in Minamata with about 700 years of history, long used as a cure resort.
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A hot spring area on the border with Kagoshima in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, with a history of about 700 years. Long cherished as a place for hot spring cures, it has a legend of a crane that once healed its wound here. Today there are 4 inns and 6 town baths, and the water is mostly simple sulfur spring, selected as one of the New 100 Famous Hot Springs of Japan.
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