214 likes"Five Hours? There's No Way That's Enough": What Japanese Regulars Say About Day-Tripping to Kusatsu Onsen From Tokyo
Ask a Japanese comment section whether Kusatsu Onsen works as a day trip from Tokyo and the answer comes back a polite no. Under a video of a ¥4,000 day-trip bus from Ueno, eight of the 200 most-liked comments tell the traveler he needed to stay the night — the most-supported of them (48 likes) from someone who has gone once a year for over a decade: "a day trip to Kusatsu is rough… honestly, even one night and two days isn't enough." The channel's own reply concedes the day trip was a mistake. The only real disagreement is how many nights, and the practical detail underneath is thick: how long the bus actually takes, how long the town takes on foot, the cheap old cure-inns near the Yubatake — and the two quieter onsen up the road the regulars would send you to instead.
