長者原温泉

Oita

長者原温泉 is a hot spring town in Oita, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 42°C, hot. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring and sulfur spring. 10 inns take visitors here.

Bicarbonate springSulfur spring

The water here

Bicarbonate spring 炭酸水素塩泉

Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.

Sulfur spring 硫黄泉

The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.

The numbers

Water temperature
42°C
Inns
10
Address in Japanese
大分県玖珠郡九重町長者原

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

33.1166, 131.2282 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia

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