Sakai Kusatsu

Gondolas, chair lifts and rope tows. Whether you can reach one carrying skis is what separates ski-in from a shuttle bus.

• Tengusan Gondora 天狗山ゴンドラ6 min · 492 m
• Tengusan Famirii Pea Rifuto 天狗山ファミリーペアリフト7 min · 536 m

Where there is no train, this is the way out. Stops on both sides of one road are counted once.

None found within 800 m.

Everything else you do in a day starts here.

None found within 800 m.

Open late, sells water, food, and usually has an ATM that takes foreign cards.

• 草津名產TIP店 8 min · 626 m
• 7-Eleven セブン-イレブン10 min · 772 m

Matters once you are staying more than a few nights.

None found within 800 m.

Getting ill is the thing most likely to ruin a trip.

None found within 800 m.

Seven Bank, Lawson Bank, E-net, Aeon and Japan Post accept cards issued outside Japan. Most other Japanese bank ATMs decline them, so they are not counted here. Post offices are counted, because that is where most Japan Post machines are.

• Seven Bank セブン銀行10 min · 773 m
• Seven Bank セブン銀行10 min · 774 m

Restaurants and fast food. Cafes are not counted — most close before dinner.

• Tengu Yamame Inn Resutoran 天狗山メインレストラン3 min · 224 m
• Nishi Rakuen 西楽園4 min · 356 m
• Soba-kappo SAI 5 min · 387 m

Somewhere to sit in the morning that is not your room.

• Dan Bee Chaya だんべえ茶屋7 min · 556 m
• Gokurakukan Cafe Spa Neue Post 8 min · 605 m

Often the reason for the trip rather than a convenience.

• foot bath 西の河原源泉足湯4 min · 303 m
• Sainokawara Open-air Bath 西の河原露天風呂4 min · 315 m

Shown for information only. About 3,000 are mapped for the whole country against many times that in reality, so a hit here is worth something and a miss means nothing.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

• Yuagari Ka Rinto 湯あがり かりんと7 min · 578 m
• Yoritomo Nishi No Kawahara Toori Branch 頼朝西の河原通り店7 min · 589 m

Attractions, museums, viewpoints, castles and monuments. Ordinary neighbourhood shrines are not counted — Japan has tens of thousands, and counting them would make every street look remarkable.

• Nishi No Kawarano Gensen 西の河原源泉4 min · 298 m
• Sight 4 min · 325 m
• Sight 4 min · 327 m

Somewhere to walk that is not a shopping street.

• Sainokawara Park 西の河原公園4 min · 305 m
• Park 8 min · 679 m

Counted as a plus here. A property tool would count the same places as a minus.

• Sengaku 仙楽7 min · 584 m
• Kaze No Hana 風の花8 min · 643 m

Staffed neighbourhood police posts. The default place to go if something goes wrong.

None found within 800 m.