長野県トップ100温泉: 軽井沢のトンボの湯 Nagano's Top 100 Onsens: Karuizawa "Tombo no Yu"

October 5, 2012: 長野に来る理由 Reasons to Come to Nagano

Tombo-no-Yu's expansive (and expensive) indoor bath

信州の温泉巡りはまだまだ続いています。
今回はお洒落の軽井沢の一番お洒落の立ち寄り温泉:トンボの湯。
若女将と二人で立ち寄りしてみました。
設備はお洒落で快適で良かったし、内風呂の大きい窓からも、広い露天風呂からも浦の丘を眺める事が出来、お湯と共に落ち着かせる。
私達が行った日は偶々りんご風呂になっていまして、りんごと一緒にお風呂に浴びれて、楽しかった。(そのりんごを食べる人がいるのかなと思いました。)

ただ、お湯は成分が薄いせいか、あまり「温泉だ!」と言う雰囲気ではなかった。
そして、入浴代は結構高い。一人1200円でした。GWと8月は更に高いそうです。恐らく、長野県の一番高い温泉だろう。白樺湖の池の平ホテルの立ち寄り入浴代もそれぐらいな金額ですが、洞窟風呂を始め、県下最大露天風呂など、種類は豊富です。トンボの湯の温泉は内風呂と露天風呂の2つだけ。まあ、軽井沢として、妥当でしょうね。

In my continuing 'research' on Nagano's Top 100 Onsens, the latest one I went to was Tombo-no-Yu, upscale Karuizawa's most upscale bathhouse.

Tombo-no-Yu is definitely spacious and stylish, and the both the indoor bath through an enormous picture window and the expansive outdoor bath provide an exhilarating view of the hill behind the bathhouse.

We happened to time it for apple-bath day. It was fun soaking in the bath as apples came bobbing by.

However, the onsen water's mineral content must be pretty minimal, as it didn't give a strong sense of being an "onsen". And, the price is pretty steep -- 1200 yen per person (with higher prices during the Golden Week holiday and August). This is comparable to Ikenotaira Hotel's day-use bath, but their's features, among others, an enormous 'cave bath' and Nagano's largest outdoor bath. With Tombo-no-Yu having only 2 onsen baths (1 indoor and 1 outdoor), I suspect that makes them the most expensive bath in all of Nagano. Perhaps that is suitable, though, being that it is Karuizawa.

トンボの湯Tombo-no-Yu



Tombo-no-Yu's natural setting





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