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Gaga Onsen

Miyagi · 峩々温泉

Gaga Onsen is a hot spring town in Miyagi, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 58.1°C, hot. It measures pH 6.6 — close to neutral. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring and sulfate spring. Its sources put out around 93 litres a minute. 1 inns take visitors here.

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.

Sulfate spring 硫酸塩泉

Clear water with a faintly bitter taste. Known for holding heat.

Things to see nearby

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.

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Where to stay

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Hot spring towns nearby

Similar water elsewhere

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

The numbers

Water temperature

58.1°C

pH

6.6 (close to neutral)

Discharge

93 litres a minute

Inns

1

Address in Japanese

宮城県柴田郡川崎町

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

38.1439, 140.5003 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia