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Mikurigaike Onsen

Toyama · みくりが池温泉

Mikurigaike Onsen is a hot spring town in Toyama, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 70°C, hot. It measures pH 3.1 — acidic. Officially the water is classed as acidic spring and sulfur spring. 1 inns take visitors here.

Acidic springSulfur spring

The water here

Acidic spring 酸性泉

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

Sulfur spring 硫黄泉

The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.

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Things to see nearby

Shōmyō FallsWaterfall · 6.5 km
Mount TateMountain · 2.2 km
Hannoki FallsWaterfall · 6.5 km
Oyama ShrineShrine · 2.2 km
Kurobe GorgeGorge · 10.4 km
Hakuba Happoone Winter ResortSki area · 22.7 km

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.

Rooms with an open-air bath — Toyama

More on tattoos and onsen

Where to stay

Onsen inns — Tateyama Town

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Hot spring towns nearby

JigokudaniToyama · 地獄谷0.3 km northwest
Acidic spring
Tateyama OnsenToyama · 立山温泉5.5 km southwest
Bicarbonate spring
Higashitan OnsenToyama · 東谷温泉10.6 km northeast
Simple spring
Meiken OnsenToyama · 名剣温泉14.1 km northeast
Sulfur spring
Awasuno OnsenToyama · 粟巣野温泉14.3 km west
Sulfur spring
Babadani OnsenToyama · 祖母谷温泉15 km northeast
Sulfur spring

Similar water elsewhere

Towns further away with the same kind of water — useful if this one is hard to reach or fully booked.

Manza OnsenGunma · 万座温泉Also acidic and sulfur
Acidic springSulfur spring
Goshougake OnsenAkita · 後生掛温泉Also acidic and sulfur
Acidic springSulfur spring
Shibu Goten-yu OnsenNagano · 渋御殿湯温泉Also acidic and sulfur
Acidic springSulfur spring
Amihari OnsenIwate · 網張温泉Also sulfur, similar pH
Sulfur spring
Niseko Yumoto OnsenHokkaido · ニセコ湯本温泉Also acidic and sulfur, similar pH
Iron spring+2
Shiratori OnsenMiyazaki · 白鳥温泉Also acidic, similar pH
Acidic spring

The numbers

Water temperature
70°C
pH
3.1 (acidic)
Inns
1
Address in Japanese
富山県中新川郡立山町

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

36.5819, 137.5961 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia

Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.