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Let's Go to Onsen

1999 · 5 seasons · 23m per episode · Drama, Comedy

Left at the altar after quitting her job to marry, Kaoru travels to the countryside to work at the Japanese inn and hot spring resort that her mother manages. With her daughter back, Kaoru’s mother decides to groom her to become the next manager, but this causes the woman previously in line for that position to become a jealous rival. On top of that, the rest of the staff don’t respect her and refuse to cooperate at every turn. Fighting to thwart the efforts of her rival, earning the respect of her co-workers, learning a new job and hopefully finding love along the way may be tough, but she is determined to make this her new home!

Seasons

• Season 1 — 65 episodes (September 13, 1999)
• Season 2 — 60 episodes (November 27, 2000)
• Season 3 — 54 episodes (January 28, 2002)
• Season 4 — 47 episodes (September 1, 2002)
• Season 5 — 20 episodes (November 29, 2003)

Cast

• Chiyo Tanaka as Hiromi Takemoto
• Kumiko Fujiyoshi as Yuriko Kurahara
• Miho Yabe as Miharu Fukikoshi
• Hiroko Yamashita as Nobue Sasaki
• Kazuma Shigaya as Shinji Otani
• Shiho Fujimura as Yukino Sakurai
• Takako Katou as Kaoru Shiina
• Minoru Tanaka as Kenji Muto

Details

First aired

September 13, 1999

Episodes

246

Genres

Drama, Comedy

Network

JNN

Status

Ended

TMDB score

5.0 / 10 from 2 votes