Ok, this is more of a trivia question. Years ago I spent a weekend at a place called Nanataki. It was a hot spring with a stream where the hot water mixed with the cold, giving locations of varied temperature.

It was near Tokyo - perhaps a few hours by train.

I can't for the life of me find it anymore. It may have been somewhere near Ito.

Am I totally senile, or is anyone aware of this?

Here is a Nanataki near the town of Kosaka in Akita prefecture:
http://www.town.kosaka.akita.jp/kis/e/e_nanataki.html

I don't know if you are senile. We'd have to run some tests ...

There seems to be more than one location with that name : nana (seven) - taki (waterfall). By quick googling, I see one in Akita mentioned above, one in Aichi near Nagoya, one in Kumamoto (Kyushu Island)

> It may have been somewhere near Ito.

There is one in Kawazu, approximately 30 km on the coast from Ito. Only it is called "nana-daru" by local dialect (but written in the same kanjis so meaning the same, 7 waterwalls). Non-local Japanese would read it Nana-taki without knowing the local dialect. Kawazu is known for the type of Sakura that blooms very early in mid February, that I visited in 2006. Could this be it?

http://www.nanadaru.com/

7 waterwalls > waterFalls.

I bet that Nanadaru was it. Thanks!

(No wonder I couldn't find it....)

The vagaries of Kanji...

Funny you should mention Kawazu kappasan. A ryokan I am interested in is near Kawazu and I was just studying how to get there

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e6313.html

The ryokan in the area that interests me is this one

http://japaneseguesthouses.com/db/shizuoka/amagiso.htm

and some area information

http://www.nanadaru.com/

mrwunrfl, lol

Aloha!

> I was just studying how to get there

HT, as indicated on JapanGuestHouse site, get first to Atami JR Station (you will probably have to take a "slow" Kodama shinkansen from Tokyo.), then change to Izu-Kyuko (private) line to reach Kawazu. That's what I did exactly in Feb 2006 to visit Kawazu sakura festival. Because of the festival the hotels by the sea were all fully booked or very expensive so we reserved a "minshuku" pension inland about 20 minutes from Kawazu. The pension provided a free shuttle and a van came to pick us up at night after we visited the festival and had dinner. Maybe Amagi-so hotel provides a shuttle too so that you don't have to pay a taxi.

I forgot. Odoriko-go train goes direct from Tokyo to Kawazu direct, no change required. Odoriko-go or change at Atami, the line from Atami to Kawazu is half private and is not completely covered by JR Pass.

Once you are at Kawazu JR, the hotel's Japanese site says : You can take a Tokai bus at Kawazu JR station, direction Shuzenji and get off at Oodaru Iriguchi (about 25 minutes). The hotel is by the bus stop. If you have a big luggage, a taxi would be so much easier though.

Domo kappasan for the translation of the bus information. We will be traveling lightly so this is a good to know.

We will be coming from the Matsumoto area so there is a Hikari that stops at Atami, then the private line to Kawazu and then the bus

Aloha!