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Hōshi Onsen Chōjūkan in Minakami — thermal bathing

Minakami/Japan

Hōshi Onsen Chōjūkan

A Meiji-era wooden bathhouse in the Gunma mountains, bathing over its own spring.

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Quelltemperatur
43°C
Badetemperatur
41°C
Baden
Innen / Außen
Gegründet
1875
Unterkunft
Hotel vor Ort

Hōshi Onsen Chōjūkan stands alone in a forested valley in Minakami, Gunma. Its Hōshi no Yu bathhouse, built in 1895, is a wooden hall of arched beams where bathers sit on pebble-floored basins directly above the calcium-sodium sulphate spring.

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Warum hingehen

It is one of the best-preserved mixed-bathing wooden bathhouses in Japan: no filtration, no additives, water entering the tubs at source temperature under lamplight.

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Das Wasser

Thermalwasser

Quelle
Hōshi no Yu
Mineralisierung
Calcium-sodium sulphate spring
Charakter
Water rises directly beneath the pebble-floored tubs of the 1895 bathhouse, unfiltered and undiluted.

Geschichte

The inn was founded in 1875 as a remote cure lodging on the old road over the Mikuni pass; the bathhouse of 1895 survives largely unaltered and is a designated cultural property of the region.

Praktische Informationen

Chōjūkan is a ryokan first — day bathing is possible in limited hours. Hōshi no Yu is traditionally mixed, with women-only periods each evening.

Offizielle Website

Anreise

From Jōmō-Kōgen station (Jōetsu Shinkansen), the inn is about an hour by bus and taxi via Sarugakyō; a shuttle runs for guests.

Lage

Minakami, Japan36.7520, 138.9050Auf der Balnevia-Karte ansehen

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