Ginzan Onsen: A Quiet Day Trip to the Gas-Lamp Hot Spring Town
This guide covers a day trip to Ginzan Onsen in Yamagata Prefecture: how to get there from Oishida and how to shape the visit around the ride back.
Region
Yamagata
6 quiet, car-free day trips in Yamagata — no rental car needed.
At a glance
6 guides cover this region. The counts below are the number of guides carrying each tag; a guide can carry several tags, and not every guide is tagged on every line.
- Interest
- Hot Springs (1), Hiking (1), Shrines & Temples (1)
- Facts last checked
- 2026-09-06 to 2026-10-13
A Quiet Day on the Shonai Coast: Kamo Aquarium and Yunohama Onsen
On the far side of Yamagata's mountains, the prefecture meets the Sea of Japan along a stretch of shoreline known as the Shonai coast.
Mount Haguro and Tsuruoka: A Quiet Day Trip Up the Cedar Stairway
Travellers bound for the north of Japan tend to follow the same well-worn shortlist, and the Shonai plain in Yamagata is rarely on it.
Sakata: Rice Warehouses and Merchant Houses on a Quiet Day by the Sea of Japan
Sakata is a port town on the Sea of Japan side of Yamagata Prefecture.
Yamadera: A Day Trip to Risshaku-ji and Its Mountain Stairs
Yamadera is the mountain temple of Risshaku-ji, reached on the JR Senzan Line from Sendai or Yamagata and climbed by a flight of stone stairs.
Yonezawa Day Trip from Tokyo: Uesugi Shrine, the Castle Moat and Yonezawa Beef
Yonezawa works as a day trip from Tokyo because the Yamagata Shinkansen runs from Tokyo Station to Yonezawa Station in about two hours and ten minutes.