Words & dialect・Shimonoseki & Kanmon

OkuzashikiOkuzashiki

Also known as: 奥座敷・back parlor

Literally the back parlor of a house, the word is also used for a quiet hot spring town a little apart from a city's center. In Shimonoseki the name is given to Kawatana Onsen in Toyoura, about 25 km north of Shimonoseki Port.

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