Hot springs in Kakeyu

A hot spring village in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, whose name means deer-guided hot spring: a wandering pilgrim is said to have been led to the steaming water by a deer that was in fact the Bodhisattva Monju in animal form. The springs have flowed for about 1,200 years. The central bathhouse, Monju no Yu, draws from five separate source springs.