Onsen in Hokkaido
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- Fukiage Onsen
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- Hokkaido Sorachi-gun
- A hot spring inn surrounded by vast natural beauty halfway up Mt. Tokachi in Kamifurano Town, Hokkaido whose baths are constantly replenished kakenagashi style from a natural source spring. The waters of the inn's acidic sodium calcium chloride sulfate spring are said to treat a variety of ailments, including nerve pain, muscle soreness, joint pain, motor paralysis, joint stiffness, bruises, sprains, frozen shoulders, hemorrhoids, and chronic digestive diseases. These same waters can also be drunk, and doing so is said to help alleviate chronic digestive diseases, chronic gall bladder inflammation, gallstones, chronic constipation, diabetes, gout, and obesity. The Fukiage Roten no Yu, a free outdoor bath, is located a five minute walk from the inn. There are no changing rooms near the bath, so women may want to come wearing a swimsuit or wrapped in a towel.
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- nerve pain
- joint pain
- muscle soreness
- aid recovery from fatigue
- etc
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- Okhotsk Omui Onsen
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- Hokkaido Monbetsu-gun Omucho Sawaki 346-3
- This hot spring is owned and operated by Hotel Hinodemisaki. From the hotel's outdoor bath in winter, bathers can watch ice floes practically right in front of their eyes. Situated along a coast extending some 35 kilometers which is the southernmost place in the northern hemisphere where ice floes can be seen, the waters of the sodium chloride highly saline spring are said to treat an abundant array of ailments, including nerve pain, muscle soreness, joint pain, frozen shoulders, motor paralysis, joint stiffness, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive diseases, and chronic skin diseases. The hotel's bathing facilities are open to non-guests, as well, and the hotel is a convenient place from which to base area sightseeing activities as well as a great destination to drop by while passing through the area. Visitors can also enjoy abundant natural beauty at places like Cape Hinode, the Onishi River, Jinmon Falls, and Inashibetsu Falls.
- Effect
- nerve pain
- muscle soreness
- joint pain
- aid recovery from fatigue
- etc
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- Kawayu Onsen
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- Hokkaido Kawakami-gun Teshikagacho
- Situated in between Lake Mashu, which boasts some of the clearest waters in the world; and Lake Kussharo, Japan’s largest caldera lake, this hot spring district is one of Hokkaido’s foremost and is a popular base for sightseeing in the Doto region. The area’s hot springs are some of the most acidic in the country and have been used for therapeutic, curative bathing since ancient times due to their powerful antibacterial properties. A high temperature hot spring river flows through the district, and steam and the smell of sulfur waft in the air. In addition to hot spring hotel’s and bathhouses, there are footbaths and facilities for drinking the area’s healing waters, making it possible for visitors to experience its hot springs in a variety of ways.
