Round 6: Tossup 16

One of these places near Nagasaki named Obama provides an ingredient for oval crackers called Yusenpei. Visitors to a set of these places in Beppu called the seven (15[1])jigoku may observe them but not enter. The oldest independent business in the world, which opened in one of these places in 705 (15[1])AD, was operated by the same family for 52 generations (15[1])until 2017. These places name a style of eggs traditionally slow cooked (15[1])in a rope net. Historical (*) ryokan were generally built around these places in the Hakone (“ha-KO-nay”) area around (10[1])Mount Fuji. In Jigokudani Monkey Park, macaques will spend winter days lounging in these places, which typically separate men and women when developed. For 10 points, traditional Japanese inns are often built around what features created by water circulating up through the crust? ■END■

ANSWER: hot springs [or onsen; accept hydrothermal spring or geothermal spring; accept baths; accept ryokan until read; prompt on springs; prompt on hotels or resorts or inns and ask “what kind of place are they built next to?”]
<EC, Geography> | NAFTA-Packet-6
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