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Hakuba Yari Onsen
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.
Getting there
- Train to Hakuba Station (JR)
- On foot along a mountain trail, about 300 min
The water here
Bicarbonate spring
Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.
Sulfur spring
The classic rotten-egg smell and milky white water. It can tarnish silver jewellery, so take it off.
More photographs
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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
- 43.1°C
- Discharge
- 760 litres a minute
- Inns
- 1
- Guest capacity
- 150
- Address in Japanese
- 長野県北安曇郡白馬村北城字白馬山国有林
Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.
Where it is
36.7245, 137.7668 — open the map
Read more
Planning a first soak? Read how an onsen stay works, and what to do if you have tattoos.