蛇の湯温泉

Tokyo

蛇の湯温泉 is a hot spring town in Tokyo, Japan. It measures pH 10.5 — strongly alkaline. Officially the water is classed as simple spring and sulfur spring. 1 inns take visitors here.

Simple springSulfur spring

The water here

Simple spring 単純温泉

Mild and low in dissolved minerals. Usually clear and gentle on the skin, which is why these baths are often recommended for first-timers.

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

pH
10.5 (strongly alkaline)
Inns
1
Address in Japanese
東京都西多摩郡檜原村数馬

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

35.7260, 139.0497 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia

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