YUZAWA TRAVEL GUIDE 🚠 | Things to do in Yuzawa + KIYOTSU GORGE and the Tunnel of Light 🌿✨

Today, we’re taking you to Yuzawa, a town in the mountainous region of Niigata Prefecture, mainly known for its heavy snowfall and hot springs. However, we visited in late summer, so there was no skiing for us!

Instead, we rode the ropeway up the mountain to visit an alpine botanical garden, hiked to the nearby Fudo Falls, and sampled sake at the Ponshukan Sake Museum inside Echigo Yuzawa Train Station.

We also visited lots of baths across town – hand baths, foot baths, and even a sake bath! Plus, we went on a day trip to Kiyotsu Gorge to visit the famous Tunnel of Light.

So join us in this Yuzawa travel guide for some ideas of fun things to do here on your own trip!

Things to do in Yuzawa Japan
01:01 – Yuzawa Kogen Ropeway
03:21 – Yuzawa Kogen Alpine Botanical Garden
04:55 – Hand Bath
06:25 – Foot Bath
07:45 – Chicken Katsudon and Ginger Pork
09:48 – Fudo Falls
13:28 – Nakanoya Soba Yuzawa Shop
18:52 – Ponshukan Sake Museum
24:51 – Sasa Dango
27:24 – Sake Onsen at Echigo Yuzawa Station
31:25 – Day Trip to Kiyotsu Gorge
35:35 – Tunnel of Light
40:00 – Suwa Shrine

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It’s a bit of a rainy morning here as you can see but we’re not letting that keep us indoors going on a little hike so we’re going to be showing you lots of different baths this is the first wonderful Onsen foot bath right out here in the middle of the

Town SOA for lunch friends and I’m very happy about it some seaweed on top these are cold noodles a wonderful dish to enjoy in the summertime we have entered the tunnel of light there is some very spooky music playing this next work of art is also a

Toilet you can see them they can’t see you see you we are AB All Aboard it goes at set time so every 20 minutes yeah we were lucky we only had to wait 5 minutes well friends first attraction here in uzawa we decided to take the ropeway up

The mountain for some epic views yeah we figured it looks like we’ve got some rain in the schedule so yes let’s take advantage of that one non rainy afternoon and head up yeah and this is a beautiful spot there’s also a Botanical Alpine Garden that I’m hoping to visit yes and one

Thing we noticed immediately as soon as we reached the Mountaintop the temperature is so much cooler here oh thank you thank any I mean I’m just so so unbelievably thankful for that you know it is late September here in Japan but the temperatures remind me of back

Home maybe in early August so I’m loving the cooler temperature is up here it’s going to allow us to enjoy the walk a little bit more and yeah it’s just a completely different environment up here it’s so green it’s so spacious that that fresh Mountain Air what’s not the lake

Huh exactly all hills are alive with the sound of music right why why why aren’t you thinking B hey so what are you doing you’re in the wrong career you should def definitely have a singing career that was totally in tune that was definitely in tune what

Do you think subtropical Sound of Music yeah definitely subtropical it’s a little bit Lusher over here and not quite the the the size of trees either or the size of mountain peaks they the mountain peaks either but you know what this is nice this is the start of our

Mountainous Adventures here in Japan and I couldn’t be happier so we are now checking out the Alpine Garden lots of photo ops along the way y are you cooperating with the with your photographic you got the best photo shoot ever and you got to review it and

Critique and ask for another one on top of that so you know what Sam does when he takes photos of people he’ll be like yeah yeah and then you look at the photos and your eyes are clo Landscapes you’re great people you’re like whatever yeah I’m a lot of

People photographer that’s true I I prefer candid portraits CED portrait to POS portrait there you go n thoughts thoughts I love it out here if nothing else is the temperature I love it is a beautiful garden though and there aren’t too many people here at the moment so I actually noticed more

People doing kind of like Comfort touristy things they were eating at the restaurants and just hanging out by there’s a little foot spa we decided to have a bit more Adventure and walk down here and we’ve been rewarded so we’re going to be showing you lots of different baths during during our time

Here in uzawa starting right now with a hand bath Samuel can you demonstrate the hand bath I can try but I’ve never done a hand bath before I’ve done foot baths this is the first this is the first so let me take off my camera bathe the

Hands it doesn’t say sink I’m going to take off my watch oh come on that’s a bit that’s Overkill not Overkill here the hands are going to have first ooh it’s so warm so warm it’s like hot water as you’d imagine oh it feels so good ready for the Polar Plunge okay Polar

Plunge is definitely not the Polar Plunge the hot plunge hand bag oh that’s so nice and warm okay oh that feels great I love it and from here we’re going to continue to the foot path yeah I’m I’m more looking forward to that but this is my first hand not bad wow just

Enjoying a little afternoon stroll through yuzawa on our way to the foot bath wait the foot bath we passed that on that was on another road wasn’t it yeah that’s down here I believe down here oh oh no it’s right there it’s right there wow oh is this another one

No that’s the one we’re just we’re just so disoriented where is the paath we we we do turn left at some point oh yeah I remember I remember the cake liquor Place cake liquor cake liquor foot bath you’re not going to keep that gosh oo all righty are you ready for this I’m

Ready for a dippy dooo a dippy doo dah dippy doo dah oh that’s wonderful and you know what it feels 10 times better after going for a hike like we did your feet are kind of swollen a little bit sore and to be able to dip them into this wonderful onen foot bath

Right out here in the middle of the town this would be even better in my opinion on a on a cooler day if it was like 10° something like that you how nice that would feel warm up in the public bath yeah this just feels wonderful I’m going

To stay here for a while all right wow I’ve got a real farmer’s tan well no like a sandal tan going on hey oh yeah ooh that is hot yeah you did wow that that burns a little bit all righty guys so we’re pretty tired from today’s activities we’re also

Feeling really hungry so we couldn’t find the restaurant that was open in the middle of the afternoon it’s probably like 4:00 4:30 right now and we’re having dinner so we decided to walk over to the train station and we found a restaurant serving set lunches so we’re

Going to show you what we got everything looks so good I’m hungry after all the hiking for sure and what did you order so I got something that is the equivalent of like a normally you we get this it’s called the katsudon which is pork but this is the chicken version so

It’s basically it’s got chicken with egg and a sauce and rice underneath and onions looks great and it came with a a bowl of miso sure did so should I try that yes M very good super tender chicken I actually normally not a huge fan of egg but in this scenario it’s

Pretty good and just so hungry that this tastes wonderful to me yeah you know we’ve been having a lot of noodles lately so some something with the rice mix it up is very very welcome Y and then I got I also got no you got chicken I got a pork

Dish I got Ginger pork really good so it’s thin little strips of pork with onion solid is it on a bed of salad I haven’t even noticed see that from here also a bowl of rice so I’m going to mix that up if I can manage to use these

Chopsticks I have more experience than what it looks like right now my gosh nice and gingery I can’t wait I’m going to I’m going to steal a piece from you that looks looks really good I love Ginger me too Ginga for the win a bowl of miso soup I love miso I’m

Just having a daily now never get tired of miso sometimes for breakfast yep all right so good food here at the train station lots of options good morning good morning from fluto Falls it’s a bit of a rainy morning here as you can see but we’re not letting

That keep us indoors going on a little hike exactly so we’re experiencing a little hike within the town There’s a waterfall area and we’ve got some really cool indoor activities to do on a rainy day including eating drinking sake and a special kind of msen that has a specific

Ingredient all right so all of that coming up but right now we’re going to kick our walk off to the waterfall and it is surprisingly humid for a cloudy rainy day we are sweating already um but it’s meant to be 30 minutes to the falls from the train station and yeah let’s go

Enjoy that all righty those Falls there that is not what we’re after yeah folks just in case you were thinking that’s some Main Attraction no it is not we still have some more hiking to do up the path we go up we go lead the way oh man what an awesome shot here

Wow well guys we made it to the falls as you can see pretty cool pretty epic and I mean the best thing we’re the only ones here no one else is around and it kind of surprises me because it’s a super easy hike it takes less than 30

Minutes from the train station and I mean there is a little bit of an incline but it’s not anything super steep that’s you know like unmanageable I’d say this is a fairly accessible hike and it’s not far at all and like look at how beautiful and Lush and green this place

Is like even on a cloudy day I think it’s quite magical I think the mistiness and just the the cloud coverage makes it even more special what do you think how do you like The Falls it’s amazing you think that you can get out here in

Nature just a few minutes away from the Town Center absolutely love it literally nobody is here just us we have this whole place to ourselves it just feels like this this town in the offseason is definitely a bit of a Hidden Gem I’d say guys we found a real Gem of place here

Just across from the train station traditional restaurant with traditional seating they even have something cool there if you take a look around here they have a traditional sake bar you can sit down right by the bar and order drinks that’s that’s a lot of tradition in one place that look at the extensive

Menu but what’s so cool about this place aside from the setting is that they have great lunch sets so we’ve ordered two different kinds I’m trying the local one which is called maake maake temp Tempur noodles and I got and you got the tenzaru noodles okay there we go so we

Both come with tempura and apparently the Mitaki tempura is a special type of nigata makaki mushrooms so it’s going to be really interesting something unique and different here in this cool little town in Japan SOA for lunch friends and I’m very happy about it you can see the

Buckwheat noodles over here some seaweed on top these are cold noodles a wonderful dish to enjoy in the summer time so I’m just going to try to lift some noodles and I’ve already prepared my little sauce little bit of Wasabi mixed in there and we’re just going to grab our noodles

Cul dip them into the sauce and into the mouth they go scrumptious I’d love you to try your tempura too please I already ate the best one pumpkin oh it’s it’s gone pumpkin is gone well there’s mushrooms these are like some leafy greens this looks like a green pepper and I also

Have eggplant so let’s try this leaf and shrimp this is a different sauce oh yeah for dipping the tempora M I don’t know what I’m having but it’s nice sometimes that’s the comment we have in Japan I don’t know what we’re have but it’s ni yeah yours is same same

But different but different so the difference is the tempura the Miaki mushrooms and this is the local dish friends look how beautiful that looks this is I’m really excited to try this wow it’s so big bup that in delicious like it oh wonderful tempura coating and the mushrooms are

Just so so spongy and actually juicy too juicy mushrooms you heard it here I love that and guys this is a meal where the gifts keep on coming M check out this and they even have this nice little explanation sheet SOA U is a boiled water from SOA noodles it is very

Nutritious with delightful taste as a soup so pour some on your bowl after eating the SOA all righty sounds good so we’re going to use that little bowl so let’s take this okay and pour it into here o look at that see the it’s the water that the soba noodles were boiled

In he that’s right nutritious and delicious want some too uh I’ll I’ll finish up my soba and then I’ll do the same oh that’s nice and I had a little bit of lingering Wasabi at the bottom of the wall those got a bit of zest too that’s nice poent so I believe that

Restaurant was called nakoya friends all great things unfortunately come to an end that was a wonderful meal I loved everything about it from the traditional seating to the Ambiance inside the restaurant to the Fantastic food to the extra service and the price was also very affordable to it

Came to uh 2900 Yen and that included everything man that place is good if I if we can find a way to go back I’m pretty sure we will oh you’re already planning your return meal that’s a good sign maybe on the day we leave you know all righty we are definitely satisfied

That was wonderful wonderful food I’ll go out on the limb and say that was one of the best meals if not the best meal we’ve had in Japan it was just so good so memorable everything loved about it everything I love everything loved about it I mean I loved everything about it

Let try that again our English is starting to change here just the order of words um but anyways now we’re walking over to the train station because there are some cool food and drink activities that we have planned for the afternoon I would have to say this is one of the coolest train

Stations I’ve ever been to there’s so much to do you could actually probably spend a whole day in there yeah baby so we’ve arrived at the train station I apologize for the announcements but they just don’t stop they keep going so got to speak over them so we’re currently

Going to visit the Ichigo Sak Museum bonan now if you watched our nigata city video you saw that we went into the train station and they had little vending machines where you could sample sake yeah they did so here they have even more sake even more variety so

We’re going to be heading over there yeah I think there’s about 20 more from what we we sced it out I think there’s like maybe 132 or something like that so yeah we got options Gore we’re probably going to try five different ones yes let’s do so we’re going to bring you

Along get some tokens and try some Sak let’s do it there are all the varieties of Sak friends look at that awesome photo that’s going to and here’s another signifier that you’ve found the right place Sak man yeah it’s Sak man from neata Sak man can Sak man can you can do

It Sak man saki man can okay so we got our little saki cup also this time around moderation we do not each need to have five shops of Sak um we’re going to share five between the two of us so we have five tokens we don’t need to take a

Siest to this after pass out if you have that so some really good advertising here I like the sweet fruity ones and number 117 promises to be a fruity sake like a pear and apple with smooth sweetness chakari ch ch zakari ch zakari cha zakari is it

Zakari we’re going to try that that’s going to be number one okay cha zakari you want to have a little sip sure don’t drink too much cuz it’s a fruity one the wifey likes the fruity ones ooh it is fruity it’s fruity it’s not super sweet but it’s fruity it’s got

15% alcohol so I think you’ll like it but it’s not the sweet sweet sweet ones that you really like that makes sense okay so it’s not it is not syrup I am expecting but it does have the subtle fruit flavors for sure did you agree you’re right that is

Not syrup that is not honey it is fruity I like it I would not say it’s a sweet finish no look at this one 46% that’s that’s a bit mucho I need to take a nappy after that one okay Sasa sunde going for a lighter one with the hopes

Audrey want to try first sure give us the verdict you’re going to like this one a bit more a bit more y it’s not super sweet but it’s definitely sweeter a bit more but not quite that’s an improvement it’s an improvement so the the key thing is that

Has lower alcohol content i’ i’ I’ve think I’ve unlocked the secret now doing this twice if you go for the ones that have about 11% they tend to be sweeter not always but most of the time we have arrived at the plum wine section where realizing I probably have been drinking

Plum wine that’s the one you like so this is your favorite from last time we’re going to have this at the end we’re also going to try this one too this one’s 133% this one might be one that you like we’ll find out oh this one has Audrey’s name all

Over it it’s so sweet it’s very Plum it’s got a sweet Plum taste plumy try it turns out I’ve been looking for plum wine not Sak this whole time Audrey likes for Plum wines so now you know you can come to the pukan and make it over

To the plum wine section yep Shu which I think is probably Soju Korean and wine made in nigata you know what I’m I’m sorry I’m going to override this I want I’m going to get some more coin SU try the wine more coins have been acquired yes friends I have never tried Japanese

Wine before so I’m very excited we did get some more coins for that now I will say that all three of the wine selections take up two coins how about this one the red wolf Red Wolf looks like it won an award oh but put your

Little Cup first oops want to be and I have no idea pour wine into the oh it’s going to be a red red wine I can’t wait to try this so excited for this guys one and two oo wowers and I am my favorite drink is is

Wine so I’m quite excited but you’re a malbeck kind of guy so we’ll see what Japanese wine is like it’s not very strong it’s very subtle it’s very subtle taste soft like like a Mero or even lighter it’s even it’s even softer than Mero wow so distinct and different

I’ve never had anything quite like it still trying to decide my thoughts I like it I like it do I like it or I’m confused at the moment you try that is different yeah it is not the Argentine wine we are we are used to drinking at this point I can say

That I do prefer the the sakis and the plum wines but it was interesting to try a Japanese red wine so we have acquired two little desserts here at the market inside the train station and we are having something called Sasa Dango um I’m going to open this up for you it’s

Wrapped in a Bamboo Leaf and it’s kind of like a like a Mochi it’s Dango so it’s the the sticky glutenous rice made into a little ball and it is filled with red bean paste now when we were buying this there was a little bit of confusion because they’re

Speaking to me in Japanese but basically you can get the filling as a smooth red bean paste or you can get like the textured Bean like you can actually see the bean and the lady was trying to explain this to me and it took me a while to understand what she was talking

About also not that easy to unravel huh look at that so look at the layers yeah it’s several layers of leaf o and it is sticky o la oh look at that okay oh my oh my how am I going to eat this well I

Guess I will just take a bite right then so it is green from the mugart Y mugart it’s such a funny word it doesn’t sound appetizing but I do like mugart and I’ve been eating mugart uh Mochi kind of sounds like a unpleasant rainy day oh it’s a mugart

To me mugart it sounds like a worm in my bra sounds like a worm what’s that it’s good a little bit messy to eat yeah but nice and warm like they were actually steaming this right in front of us it’s it’s just a really nice dessert very light like all Japanese desserts

Not overly sweet and it would go really nice with a cup of green tea if you ask me there you go so I’m going to let you try that’s the verdict in he goes trying the Sasa Dango M I love the texture that’s my favorite part the texture it’s

Just mushy and just tasty yum yummy he says yum yeah so if you want to try a little dessert here at the train station this is one of the more traditional ones you’ll find here and it’s kind of fun that you have to earn it you know you

Got to unwrap it yeah and uh p a little bit effort to eat it tiny bit of effort tiny bit yeah oh look at this the last little bits and now that we’ve had our our sweets we’re going to go visit the on at the train station we’ve had our sweets

And now it’s time to show you just one more thing you can do here at the train station this place is amazing you can eat you can drink you can find interesting souvenirs and you can go spend some time in an onen now the unique feature that we haven’t talked

About at this onen is that it has zake in it wow I’ve never been to an on that has sake and so this is different and interesting in my opinion wow you look so tall Samuel do I this is the symbol for the onen it segregated to men and women and

We can see the hours here is open from 10:30 to 6:30 and it is the sake hot spring sake hot spring this this what it might look like all righty so it says the saki bath is prepared by adding a special saki to the Natural Hot Springs

Of Ichigo yuzawa has low alcohol cont low alcohol that’s really good you don’t have to worry about getting drunk in there and it cost 800 Yen 800 yen to go all righty I’m going to try it good luck yes byebye well my buddy here just walked out of

The onen my first sake onen so you were enjoying a nice little moment of Peace here with a drink and and an ice cream mhm nice so that was really cool it’s one of the small onen I’ve ever been to there was only seven showering stations

And a small to mediumsized onen with a saki in it um it was really cool though I really enjoyed it and yeah you wouldn’t expect to have this huge onon in a train station so just the right size and just the right amount of time I probably spent close to an hour there

And it was very relaxing and always feel really good like this is something when I used to live in South Korea I would go to the what was called the Sala or the gy jilong there at least once a week to Rel locks and um I love doing that in

Japan too I hope we have a few more opportunities to do this on our trip all righty so interview time how many people were actually in there well at one point there was it was full like six or seven and then then everyone left and I was by

Myself so nice it was like uh yeah it varied throughout the time I was there it started off quiet got busy and was quiet again and could you smell the Saka in the air or in the water the aroma of sck or think that I that I could but

That might have just been my imagination you know wanting to I don’t know I can’t say for certain but yeah I enjoyed it I feel relaxed and rejuvenated nice and now I got you a drink this is called Koji LTE and it has amazaki which apparently is a sweet drink made from

Fermented rice it’s very sweet and it I can’t oh it has caramel do I say it has caramel yeah that’s carel all righty good morning good morning morning friends here we are in front of Ichigo yuzawa train station and also the bus terminal here in the

Parking lot we are here bright and early because we need to catch a bus at 7:15 a.m. today we’re going to visit a Gorge kotu Gorge and the buses are not very frequent at least this time of year they’re only running three times a day

So this is the first one we can catch and we thought you know what let’s get out there bright and early so we’re up platform number four waiting for the bus and get ready to experience some beautiful landscapes today as well as some art so can’t wait to show you

That well friends we arrived we’re off the bus once you get off the bus you want to start walking up left back back in the direction you came from maybe like a little block and then there’s going to be a little entrance that leads you down

Into the town so I guess my biggest tip if you’re planning to do this day trip I would say go to visitor information inside the train station in uzawa they’ve got maps with photos of what the route is going to be like they’re going to give you a bus schedule and that’s

Where you’re going to get most of your information because otherwise the rest of the time you’re not going to really be able to communicate with the bus drivers you’re going to be lost you’re going to be confused what a beautiful journey through the mountains though Serpentine

You’re kind of just going left and right and zigzagging and eventually where we’ve got off is a small town first impressions are the the houses look really neat they’re kind of big and the other thing I’ve noticed too is that there’s some places some houses that

Have like tiny little rice fields in the front so cute it’s so cute so we’re really happy to be here also the weather’s different from our town 30 minutes away no sun out here much cooler and uh so far enjoying it a lot and this is a little entrance into the town this

Little road right here and they’ve got like a picture of the gorge we’re heading to so yeah this is great Al righty friends so we have made it to the entrance of the tunnel of light just behind us however we are here a little bit early 15 more minutes before it

Opens yeah it opens at 8:30 so we’re here at like4 after 8 mhm now knowing that information I would have taken even more time to to photograph and take videos of the walk here beautiful walk it’s a little bit different than what we expected right yeah so I thought we were

Going to be on the side of a highway to be honest I thought it was going to be a scary walk but as you can see we’re just following this beautiful river that has little like pockets of turquoise and we went through a town and now like the

Actual Resort here at the entrance of the tunnel there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic but I will say this it has the the rural effect that I noticed everywhere in the world people drive very fast same in Canada too and so be careful and make sure you stick to the

That white line stay on that other side so yeah just going to enjoy the scenery a bit longer then until the ticketing Booth opens so admission costs and a map we’re starting right here got a long tunnel to walk and we have a strategy friends we are going to be part of the

First group that comes in and our plan is to hi tail it to platform 4 for the most epic views and then we can hit three two and one on the way back the idea is want to beat the crowds we want to beat the other people coming in with

Us and we also want to beat the tourist groups to get those epic shots let’s see if it works we have entered the tunnel of light green light at the moment we are on a mission to reach the end of the tunnel now we have gone from

Green lights to Orange lights I wonder if we’re going to have Rainbow Lights along this tunnel this is going to be fun where we’re about to enter a pink tunnel up ahead there is some very spooky music playing sounds like something out of a horror

Movie not sure I like it I’m glad I’m not in here alone that’s all I’ll say well it’s getting Misty in here hey yeah ooh little feel ominous hey how are you enjoying it it’s amazing and our strategy paid off we were the first for the view so we got to get our

Shots that we wanted and then also it was kind of neat because the floor was actually wet so I was one of the few people that actually had sandals on and I walked in my bare feet out there and uh as the some crowds came there was

Some people that were actually using me as a model they be like no stand here from midle turn around come a bit closer so that couldn’t have gone any better it was uh it was fun to have the space to ourselves for a little bit and it was

Also fun to interact with some of the other uh visitors who came out there so really really cool and um quite the experience walking in the tunnel with all the different neon lighting very neat all right this next work of art is also a toilet take us in please because

Apparently the it’s art itself the toilet this might be one of the more interesting plan let’s take a look open you got a you toilet with a view toilet with a view you can actually be sitting on the toilet like this okay I’m watching other people you can see them

They can’t see you see you well that’s the coolest toilet ever this one is more oh natural right yeah this is the very first one is the most normal one nothing particularly special no installations some cool wooden benches yeah some nice benches to sit and we reverse engineered this entire

Experience going from last to First well guys we have a lot of time until we catch the next bus that goes to usawa it goes at 12:12 so we need to find ways to pass time and there just so happens to be a cafe with a little foot bath on the

Second floor yeah we didn’t show this but we actually had some nice cookies too we had some walnut cookies at the cafe till they went 15 minutes and then now we’re up here another work of art yeah there’s actually like some type of mirror on the ceiling so you can enjoy

The views of the gorge while you soak your feet this is a cool free attraction that you could do before or after the main one yeah this mon is the be very careful under a frog wow we are officially unofficially calling this Temple the Jumping Frog

Temple we saw at least what four or five jumping frogs of various sizes and what’s interesting about them is they blend so well into the steps which are covered in Moss and are a little bit Brown that you can’t even really see them you just suddenly see something

Like jerk move out of the way and jump it’s really funny um this is a local temple we we don’t know anything about it we just noticed it on the way back and we thought we would come and explore it so here we are she rains she pours

Well all good things come to an end and unfortunately our time here in this beautiful Japanese mountain town is now over we’re saying goodbye to you from our cozy little guest house this has been the most affordable place we’ve had on our entire trip it’s just $30 a night

So the reason this apartment was affordable is because it’s off seon and we’re staying in a ski resort absolutely love getting Bargains like that and we really enjoyed being here this place was really underrated it was a little bit quirky and fun and after spending a lot

Of time in cities we were recently in saporo and nigata we really were craving some kind of like downtime something a little bit of a slower pace and we got that here we had a great time here we’d highly recommend it and we hope you stay tuned because we’ve got some more off

The beaten path Adventures for you in Japan coming soon