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The Ginzan Hot Spring is located along the Ginzan River in Obanazawa. This area lies in Yamagata Prefecture and borders neighboring Miyagi Prefecture. Graceful three- and four-story wooden inns stand in rows on both sides of the Ginzan River, with its steaming crystal clear waters, giving the area an air of a hermitage village. Ginzan, meaning “silver mountain,” was so named because of a silver mine discovered there around 500 years ago. This hot spring town makes you feel as though you have strayed off into a movie scene from a Japanese period adventure film.