Totsukawa Onsen – Yusenchi 湯泉地温泉
Totsukawa, in 2004 the first municipality in Japan to declare all its springs ‘source-only’, brings the water up here at 60°C with pH 9.1.
Yusenchi Onsen (湯泉地温泉) is one of the hot-spring areas of the village of Totsukawa (十津川温泉郷), in Yoshino District, Nara. The spring is alkaline, simple sulphur (アルカリ性単純硫黄泉), and comes out at 60°C with pH 9.1. In 2004 Totsukawa became the first municipality in Japan to officially declare that all its springs are ‘source-only’: natural water, with no recirculation, no artificial heating, no chlorine disinfection and no dilution. The marked point is the lodging やど湯の里, at 十津川村武蔵846; in the same area there is also the day-use public bath 泉湯 (十津川村武蔵23), described by the Nara tourist portal as the oldest onsen in the village, with an outdoor bath overlooking the Totsu River.
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