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Japanese Hot Springs and Hakone 17 onsen

There are many types of hot springs by the minerals dissolved in the water.

Different minerals provide different health benefits, and all hot springs are supposed to have a relaxing effect on your body and mind.
Hot spring baths come in many varieties, indoors and outdoors.
.Many hot spring baths belong to a ryokan and hotels.
Hakone has been a popular hot spring resort for centuries. 17 springs provide hot spring water to the hotels and ryokans in Hakone.

Hakone Yumoto
[Quality] Simple hot spring, alkaline simple hot spring, sodium-chloride spring (weak salt spring), sodium-calcium chloride-sulfate spring (including gypsum weak salt spring), sodium-chloride-sulfate spring (including Glauber’s salt weak spring), sodium/calcium chloride spring (containing chloride earth weak salt spring)
[Total number of sources] 74
[Spring temperature] 23-77°C
[Amount of spring] 4,679ℓ/min

KOWAKUDANI
[Spring Quality] Simple hot spring, alkaline simple hot spring, sodium-chloride spring (weak salt spring), sodium-chloride/sulfate/hydrogencarbonate spring (including Glauber’s salt sodium bicarbonate weak salt spring)
[Total number of sources] 22
[Spring temperature 40-96°C]
[Amount of spring]1,819ℓ/min

GORA
[Spring Quality] Created hot spring: Calcium-sulfate spring (gypsum spring), Sulfur-containing calcium-sulfate spring (hydrogen sulfide type/gypsum hydrogen sulfide spring) Boring hot springs: Simple hot spring, alkaline simple hot spring, sodium chlorination Hot springs (weak salt springs), sodium/calcium chloride springs (weak salt earth salt chlorides), sodium/calcium chloride/sulfate springs (weak gypsum weak salt springs), calcium-sulfate springs (gypsum springs) ), Sodium-sulfate spring
[Total number of sources] 30
[Spring temperature] 30-93°C
[Amount of spring] 3,039 ℓ/min

ASHINOYU
[Spring Quality] Simple hot spring, simple sulfur hot spring (hydrogen sulfide type), sulfur-containing calcium-sulfate spring (hydrogen sulfide type), calcium-sulfate spring (gypsum spring), etc.
[Total number of sources] 4 [Spring temperature] 26-84°C
[Amount of spring] 319 ℓ/min

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