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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入浴温度: 44°C
入浴: 内湯
創業: 1684
宿泊: 併設ホテルあり

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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訪ねる理由

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.

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湯について

温泉水

源泉: Sukayu spring
溶存成分: Strongly acidic sulphate-chloride, sulphurous
湯の性質: Cloudy white, highly acidic water served without dilution or reheating

歴史

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.

実用情報

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.

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