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 705.
Onsen Musume Onsen Musume Onsen Musume is a Japanese multimedia project by Enbound, Inc. The project's goal is to increase tourism to onsen (Japanese hot springs) by anthropomorphizing onsen as anime characters, and creating anime, manga, and video games about them. The project began in November 2016, and an animated music video by Doga Kobo was released on March 15, 2017. They also have live concerts and events with the characters' voice actresses. Onsen Musume are minor goddesses who live in every onsen. During the day Onsen Musume go to school in Odaiba, Tokyo to learn how to help more people learn