Shika-no-yu — the deer's baths (鹿の湯) 鹿の湯
Six baths between 41 and 48 degrees, open for 1,300 years: Bashō passed through here on his way north.
The poet Matsuo Bashō stopped here during the journey told in ‘Oku no Hosomichi’ (late seventeenth century), surprised by the strength of the sulphurous water; a stone marker with one of his haiku stands near the Sesshō-seki, a little further up. The water is a strongly sulphurous acidic sulphate, different from the milder waters of many other Japanese hot spring resorts.
Tochigi
湯本旭町, 湯本二丁目, 湯本一丁目
