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Yomogihira Onsen
Yomogihira Onsen is a hot spring town in Niigata, Japan. Officially the water is classed as sulfur spring. Its sources put out around 27 litres a minute. 3 inns take visitors here with room for about 397 guests. About 25,307 people a year come to bathe.
Getting there
- Train to Nagaoka Station (Shinkansen)
- Local bus, about 30 min
The water here
Sulfur spring
The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.
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.
Where to stay
Hot spring towns nearby
Similar water elsewhere
The numbers
- Discharge
- 27 litres a minute
- Inns
- 3
- Guest capacity
- 397
- Visitors a year
- 25,307
- Address in Japanese
- 新潟県長岡市蓬平町
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
37.3653, 138.8919 — open the map
Read more
Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.