Lamp no Yado Aoni Onsen

Lamp no Yado Aoni Onsen sits deep in the Aoni Gorge, surrounded by forested ravines. It traces its origins to 1928, when Kuroishi-born poet Yogaku Niwa — who had ties to well-known poets Takuboku Ishikawa and Bokusui Wakayama — built a mountain cabin to recover from illness; the site became a formal hot spring inn in 1929. The inn remains without electricity: there are no televisions, refrigerators, or electrical outlets in the guest rooms, and the premises are lit only by lamps after dark, giving it its 'lamp inn' name known throughout Japan.