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Mizusawa Onsenkyō

Akita · 水沢温泉郷

Mizusawa Onsenkyō is a hot spring town in Akita, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 58.6°C, hot. Officially the water is classed as sulfur spring. Its sources put out around 2,000 litres a minute. 19 inns take visitors here.

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.

The numbers

Water temperature
58.6°C
Discharge
2,000 litres a minute
Inns
19
Address in Japanese
秋田県仙北市

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

39.7600, 140.7500 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia

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