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Yūdoku Onsen

Hokkaido · 有毒温泉

Yūdoku Onsen is a hot spring town in Hokkaido, Japan. Officially the water is classed as sulfur spring.

Sulfur spring

The water here

Sulfur spring 硫黄泉

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

More photographs

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Things to see nearby

SounkyoGorge · 7.5 km
Mount HokuchinMountain · 1.4 km
Hagoromo FallsWaterfall · 9.8 km

Places from Wikidata, photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Distances are in a straight line from the town.

With tattoos

Many public baths still turn away visible tattoos, and the rule is set by each bath, not by the town. The reliable way round it is to bathe privately: a room with its own open-air bath, or an inn with a private bath you can book for yourselves.

Rooms with an open-air bath — HokkaidoInns with a private bath — Kamikawa Town

More on tattoos and onsen

Where to stay

Onsen inns — Kamikawa Town

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Hot spring towns nearby

Nakadake OnsenHokkaido · 中岳温泉1.8 km west
Sulfur spring
Aizankei OnsenHokkaido · 愛山渓温泉7 km northwest
Bicarbonate springSulfate spring
Daisetsu Kōgen OnsenHokkaido · 大雪高原温泉7.1 km southeast
Acidic spring
Sounkyo OnsenHokkaido · 層雲峡温泉7.3 km northeast
Sulfur spring
Asahidake OnsenHokkaido · 旭岳温泉8.3 km southwest
Sulfate spring
Tenninkyō OnsenHokkaido · 天人峡温泉10.6 km southwest
Chloride spring+2

Similar water elsewhere

Towns further away with the same kind of water — useful if this one is hard to reach or fully booked.

Bessho OnsenNagano · 別所温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring
Hirugami OnsenNagano · 昼神温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring
Kurokawa OnsenKumamoto · 黒川温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring
Togura-Kamiyamada OnsenNagano · 戸倉上山田温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring
Takamagahara OnsenToyama · 高天原温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring
Takayu OnsenFukushima · 高湯温泉Also sulfur
Sulfur spring

The numbers

Address in Japanese
北海道上川郡上川町

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

43.6803, 142.8839 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia

Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.