Photo: Ruess1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Jinzūkyōiwaine Onsen
Jinzūkyōiwaine Onsen is a hot spring town in Toyama, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 31.7°C, cool enough that the baths here are usually reheated. It measures pH 8.3 — mildly alkaline, the slippery kind. Officially the water is classed as chloride spring and bicarbonate spring. Its sources put out around 40 litres a minute. 1 inns take visitors here with room for about 50 guests. About 100,706 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.
Bicarbonate spring
Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.
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
- Water temperature
- 31.7°C
- pH
- 8.3 (mildly alkaline)
- Discharge
- 40 litres a minute
- Inns
- 1
- Guest capacity
- 50
- Visitors a year
- 100,706
- Address in Japanese
- 富山県富山市岩稲
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
36.5469, 137.2272 — open the map
Read more
Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.