Kirk here with onsen news. I seem to recall that Kurokawa was once ranked number 1 in Japan but it's still pretty high on the list of great onsen areas to visit:
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2023 ranking of best hot spring resorts in Japan
1 Hakone (Kanagawa Prefecture)
2 Kusatsu (Gunma Prefecture)
3 Noboribetsu (Hokkaido)
4 Dogo (Ehime Prefecture)
5 Beppu (Oita Prefecture)
๐Ÿ” ๐Š๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐š๐ฐ๐š (๐Š๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž)
7 Arima (Hyogo Prefecture)
8 Atami (Shizuoka Prefecture)
9 Yufuin (Oita Prefecture)
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