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あやべ温泉 is a hot spring town in Kyoto, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 18.6°C, cool enough that the baths here are usually reheated. It measures pH 8.1 — mildly alkaline, the slippery kind. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring. Its sources put out around 12 litres a minute.
Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
35.3773, 135.4348 — open the map
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