Abstract
Recently, with slump of hot spring resort industry, there is a strong need to take advantage of the natural environment, in order to restore the local endemism and charms for long-stay resort. The hot spring resort from the Edo middle to last years, when a long-stay was popular for expectations of the medical effect, has regionally-specific space structure which is up to the natural environment and life style at that time. So in order to establish a connection with regionally-specific of the hot spring resort and land form, the data are collected focused on Arima and Kinosaki hot spring resorts. And then analysis conducted with comparison of spatial characterization of both hot spring resort at the points of "centricity" "range" and "directionality".
