Awazu Onsen . Awazu Onsen Away Onsen claims to have been founded by the shugendō monk Taichō in the Nara period. Taichō was a native of neighbouring Echizen Province and is said to have been the first person to have claimed Mount Hakusan, from which the hot springs at Awazu Onsen have their source. Although it is a small resort with few more than ten "ryokan", each inn has its own well, rather than using a common source. The Hōshi Ryokan, founded in 718 AD was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest hot spring innfounded in
Nanbu, Yamanashi Tomikawa JHS and Manzawa JHS, closed in 2012. Nanbu, Yamanashi Nanbu is the southernmost municipality in Yamanashi Prefecture. The Fuji River runs through the town. Some 90% of the town's area is covered with forest, and less than 4% is used for agriculture. At an average elevation of 150 meters, Nanbu has the lowest elevation of any municipality in Yamanashi. Yamanashi Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture The area around present-day Nanbu is the ancestral home of the Nanbu clan, a prominent daimyō clan in northern Japan during the Edo period. During the Edo period, all of Kai Province was "tenryō" territory under