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Yunohama Onsen
Yunohama Onsen is a hot spring town in Yamagata, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 6–63°C, hot. It measures pH 8.3 — mildly alkaline, the slippery kind. Officially the water is classed as chloride spring. Its sources put out around 2,150 litres a minute. 16 inns take visitors here. About 273,380 people a year come to bathe.
The water here
Chloride spring
Salty water. The salt leaves a thin film on the skin, so you stay warm well after leaving the bath.
The numbers
- Water temperature
- 6–63°C
- pH
- 8.3 (mildly alkaline)
- Discharge
- 2,150 litres a minute
- Inns
- 16
- Visitors a year
- 273,380
- Address in Japanese
- 山形県鶴岡市湯野浜
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
38.7844, 139.7547 — open the map
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