On this CD, two Japanese ways of life are brought together. Onsen are hot springs, the towns around them sometimes growing into resorts of varying degrees of tourist tackiness, although many remain reasonably unspoilt. Minyo or folk songs have also grown up in these onsen towns, and this CD features songs from onsen resort towns in the east of Japan.
1. Kamehachi Tsuruta / Kamae Bushi (Asamushi Onsen, Aomori) 2. Hiromi Yoshinuki / Yusemurako (Yuse Onsen, Akita) 3. Yusei Iwamatsu / Izayamaki (Yudagawa Onsen, Yamagata) 4. Kyoko Araki / Hanezawa Bushi (Hanezawa Onsen, Yamagata) 5. Shigeo Utagawa / Aizu Bandaisan (Higashiyama Onsen, Fukushima) 6. Chiyoko Shimakura / Iizaka Kouta (Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima) 7. Noboru Kirishima / Byakko-tai (Aizu Wakamatsu, Fukushima) 8. Yoko Harumi / Kusatsu Bushi (Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma) 9. Kyoko Saito / Kusatsu Yumomi Uta (Kusatsu Onsen, Gunma) 10. Mitsuo Okada / Nasu Yumomi Uta (Yunomoto Onsen, Tochigi) 11. Ougetsu Matsubayashi / Kinugawa Saonagashi Uta (Kinugawa Onsen, Tochigi) 12. Hisako / Iwamuro Jinku (Iwamuro Onsen, Tochigi) 13. Natsue Kubo / Iwamuro Mikudari (Iwamuro Onsen, Niigata) 14. Shutaro Honjo / Yamanaka Bushi (Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa) 15. Marichiyo Ashihara / Ashihara Bushi (Ashihara Onsen, Fukui) 16. Teruaki Todo / Tukuba Yamauta (Tsukuba Onsen, Ibaraki)
