Towada, Oirase, HakkodaTowada-Hachimantai National Park
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- National Parks of Japan
- Towada-Hachimantai National Park
- Towada, Oirase, Hakkoda
- Recommended courses
- Sukayu Onsen Area Walking Course
Sukayu Onsen Area Walking Course
Course Outline
Known from long ago as a thermal bathing spot, Sukayu can be easily reached by bus from Aomori City. The area features the Sukayu Information Center, a campground, and a nature observation path. The path leads to unique locations such as Jigokunuma Pond, where strongly acidic hot water bubbles up, and “Manjufukashi” (“bun steamer”), where you can warm yourself over hot spring steam. Here one can experience the power of a volcano, the “breath” of the earth.
Highlights
A thermal bath with a history beginning in the Edo Period
This bathing spot, with its large “One-Thousand Person” mixed-gender bath constructed of Hiba cypress, preserves an old-fashioned, simple charm. Guests are treated to famous Sukayu soba (buckwheat noodles) and ginger miso bamboo-shoot oden (Japanese stewed dish), a “gourmet, street-style” Aomori dish. (The facility is open daily throughout the year.)
Jigokunuma Pond, where hot water bubbles forth
Jigokunuma Pond is a crater lake formed by volcanic activity. Every minute, some 2,700 L of highly acidic, hot (about 90°C) water flow into the marsh from the opposite shore. Manjufukashi is said to be a hot spring that restores youthful vigor. You can sit and warm themselves, fully dressed, sitting on a wooden box through which 95°C hot spring water flows.
Admission is free of charge
Hakkoda Mountains Botanical Garden Tohoku University, opened in 1929, features about 330 species that represent nearly all the plants thriving on Hakkoda Mountains. The garden contains a small marshland with Eriophorum vaginatum, small cranberry, and Asian skunk cabbage. Other features include Lobelia sessilifolia, Trientalis europaea L., marsh grass of Parnassus, Drosera rotundifolia, and flowers in bloom. (Closed in winter)
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