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Daisetsu Kōgen Onsen

Hokkaido · 大雪高原温泉

Daisetsu Kōgen Onsen is a hot spring town in Hokkaido, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 71.2°C, hot. It measures pH 2.7 — acidic. Officially the water is classed as acidic spring. 1 inns take visitors here.

The water here

Acidic spring 酸性泉

Strongly acidic, sometimes below pH 2. It stings on cuts and is not for long soaks.

More photographs

From Wikimedia Commons. Tap a photo for the photographer and licence.

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

71.2°C

pH

2.7 (acidic)

Inns

1

Address in Japanese

北海道上川郡上川町

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

43.6263, 142.9310 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia