温泉開発による温泉集落立地変化の地理的考察(第3報)

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The main purpose of this paper is to make clear the locational pattern of hot-spring resorts and its changing process. The author conducted a geographical investigation in many (about 180) hot-spring resorts in Japan. After the World War II, the tourism industry in Japan has remarkably developed. Many sight-seeing resorts are in rapid progress, above all, the development of the hot-spring resorts is striking. It is a general tendency that Many tourists visit famous hot-spring resorts. Hot-spring resorts today may be classified into several types according to their processes of development and regional conditions: that is, the international resort, the national resort, the local resort, and the neighbourhood resort. Spar resorts which come under the categories of the international and the national resort types are more attractive than those of other types. Accommodation capacities were remarkably centralized in famous hot-spring resorts, Owing to the technological improvement of hot-spring resorts, systems for hot-spring water supply are now being improved, that is, I ) hot-spring heating system: 2 ) extension of hot-spring water pipes; 3 ) chemical improvement of hot-spring pipes: and, 4 ) boring operation. Consequently, location of hot-spring hotels has come to be less limited to a certain place. Hot spring Hotel sites tend to be scattered here and there. That is to say, location of spar hotels has changed from the spar sites to other beautiful scenic seasides, lakesides, and hilltops. Results of the relationship between the development of system for hot-spring water supply and the changes in location of hot-spring resorts are illustrated in Figs. 1-12. The development of hot-spring resorts is one of characteristic phenomena of the recent Tourism in Japan.