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Hakuba Yari Onsen is a hot spring town in Nagano, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 43.1°C, hot. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring and sulfur spring. Its sources put out around 760 litres a minute. 1 inns take visitors here with room for about 150 guests.
Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.
The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
36.7245, 137.7668 — open the map
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