Onsen Near Tabua

During our recent trip, we spent many happy hours driving around "our" new area. Of the many interesting things we found, perhaps most intriguing was the hot spring town of S. Gemil.

In the middle of the town, we looked down from a bridge over the river to see an almost-Japanese sight -- a pool at the river's edge, bubbling with hot water rising from the gravel bed. An open-air hot spring bath, or "rotenburo" (?I?V???C), just like the ones we love so much in Japan! Well, almost... In this case, it is less than knee deep, and looks very under-used. After moving to Tabua, we might come over one night with a shovel to dig it out to suitable depth for bathing....