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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 de banho
44°C
Banho
Piscina interior
Fundado em
1684
Alojamento
Hotel no local

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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Por que visitar

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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A água

Água termal

Nascente
Sukayu spring
Mineralização
Strongly acidic sulphate-chloride, sulphurous
Carácter
Cloudy white, highly acidic water served without dilution or reheating

História

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.

Informações práticas

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.

Site oficial

Como chegar

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

Localização

Aomori, Japan40.6478, 140.8544Ver no mapa da Balnevia

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