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The timber bathhouse building of Sukayu Onsen in the Hakkōda mountains

Sukayu/Japan

Sukayu Onsen

A vast hinoki-cypress bathhouse in the Hakkōda mountains, famous for its acidic sulphur water and thousand-person bath.

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Temperatura di balneazione
44°C
Balneazione
Vasca interna
Fondato nel
1684
Alloggio
Hotel in loco

Sukayu Onsen sits high in the Hakkōda mountains of Aomori Prefecture, a single timber inn around the Sennin-buro or "thousand-person bath" — a cavernous cypress hall filled with steaming, strongly acidic sulphur water.

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Perché visitarlo

The bath hall is one of the most atmospheric interiors in Japanese bathing: unpainted hinoki, clouded white water, and no artificial heating or dilution. In winter the inn is buried in some of the deepest snowfall in Japan.

Raccomandazioni

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L'acqua

Acqua termale

Sorgente
Sukayu spring
Mineralizzazione
Strongly acidic sulphate-chloride, sulphurous
Carattere
Cloudy white, highly acidic water served without dilution or reheating

Storia

The spring has been used since at least 1684, according to local records, and Sukayu was designated Japan's first National Health Resort Hot Spring in 1954.

Informazioni pratiche

The main hall is traditionally mixed-gender with a screened women's section and women-only hours; smaller single-sex baths are also available. Day visitors are welcome outside the reserved morning slot.

Sito ufficiale

Come arrivare

About an hour by bus from Aomori city on the Hakkōda route; the road can close in heavy winter weather.

Posizione

Aomori, Japan40.6478, 140.8544Vedi sulla mappa di Balnevia

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