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沼尻温泉
沼尻温泉 is a hot spring town in Fukushima, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 71.8°C, hot. It measures pH 1.9 — strongly acidic, the kind that stings on a cut. Officially the water is classed as sulfur spring. Its sources put out around 10,000 litres a minute. 2 inns take visitors here.
The water here
Sulfur spring
The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.
The numbers
- Water temperature
- 71.8°C
- pH
- 1.9 (strongly acidic)
- Discharge
- 10,000 litres a minute
- Inns
- 2
- Address in Japanese
- 福島県耶麻郡猪苗代町蚕養
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
37.6184, 140.2276 — open the map
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