Osakatomebaby

I'm going to attempt to go to this onsen tomorrow, north of Kyoto and smack dab in the saddle of the pommel horse--which I assume has something to do with the mountains in that area (which are quite lovely). Not sure quite how to get there. I can get to the town, but after that I am confident that a sufficient amount of hand waving and asking questions like, "which way is north" in Japanese will do the trick.

I'm not sure, but it might have snowed there. hope hope hope.

This brings up another question. How and where did the gymnastic sport of the pommel horse arise? Another question for the universe...