Photo: 藤谷良秀(Fujitani Yoshihide) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hanamizuki Onsen
Hanamizuki Onsen is a hot spring town in Fukui, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 38.9°C, comfortably warm. It measures pH 8.5 — mildly alkaline, the slippery kind. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring. Its sources put out around 66 litres a minute. 1 inns take visitors here.
Getting there
- Train to Takefu Station
- Local bus, about 20 min
The water here
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
- 38.9°C
- pH
- 8.5 (mildly alkaline)
- Discharge
- 66 litres a minute
- Inns
- 1
- Address in Japanese
- 福井県丹生郡越前町 {{Location map many | Japan Fukui Prefecture | relief = 1 | caption =
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
35.9353, 136.0931 — open the map
Read more
Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.