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Toshichi Hot Springs Saiunso

藤七温泉 彩雲荘とうしちおんせん さいうんそう

Lodging
Tohoku·Iwate

Day Use

Yes

Bathing & Water

Natural onsen water

Uses natural hot spring water

Outdoor BathYes

Open-air outdoor bath

Indoor BathYes

Enclosed indoor bathing area

SaunaNo

Dry heat sauna room

Capabilities

Mixed BathingYes

Shared bathing area for all genders

Mixed bathing isn't available during women-only hours.

Policies & Services

KidsYes

Welcomes children and families

A 2026 Google review describes bathing with a child in swimwear; no age restriction is stated anywhere.

ParkingYes

On-site or nearby parking available

藤七温泉

Toshichi Onsen

Operated by · 株式会社だんぶり

Sulfur
Color
white, slightly turbid
Taste
not recorded
Odor
hydrogen sulfide

Calcium Sulfate spring

pH 3.7Weakly acidicHot source · 87°CSulfur-rich
Composition fingerprint0.2 g/kg dissolved · Hypotonic
Ca²⁺32
Mg²⁺18
H⁺15
SO₄²⁻96
CationsAnions
Calcium Ca²⁺
settling and calming; can leave a white mineral bloom.
Sulfate SO₄²⁻
"gypsum / Glauber's salt" — vessels and wound healing.
Known good for
  • Skin conditionsatopic skin, eczema
  • Circulationtired legs
  • Aches & jointsstiff shoulders
  • Sensitive-skin cautionbroken or dry skin

A simple sulfur spring of the hydrogen sulfide subtype, welling up at 87 °C from one of Japan's hottest natural sources high in the Hachimantai mountains. At the source the water is milky-white and faintly turbid, carrying the unmistakable rotten-egg note of H₂S. It runs weakly acidic at pH 3.7, with lightly mineralized chemistry (177 mg/kg dissolved solids) but a clear sulfur signature — free H₂S at 4.12 mg/kg and free CO₂ at 52.9 mg/kg. Classified under the older name 'tanjun ryūkasuiso-sen' (simple hydrogen sulfide spring), it's the kind of high-mountain sulfur water that needs no dilution or reheating to bathe in.

Analyzed Aug 23, 2016·公益財団法人 秋田県総合保健事業団 児桜検査センター·Cert no. No.28-07-77-003

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About

Toshichi sits near the top of the Hachimantai plateau, at roughly 1,400 meters, and only takes day-use bathers from late April to late October: deep snow closes the mountain road the rest of the year. Most of the bathing is outdoors, in a scatter of pools fed straight from the source with no dilution or recirculating. The water is cloudy sulfur water that bubbles straight up through mud on the pool floor, and guests scoop up that same mineral-rich mud as a pack for the skin. Several of the outdoor pools are mixed bathing (visible from the road, by more than one account), with a separate women-only pool alongside them and a nightly women-only window from 19:30 to 20:30; there are also separate indoor baths for men and women. Guests staying the night get one more pool to themselves, a sunrise-and-cloud-sea view bath called Goraiko-no-yu (ご来光の湯). The buildings are old and the rooms are plain, but that roughness is part of the draw: this is a genuinely rustic, old-style mountain onsen, reached by driving up into the Hachimantai highlands.

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VovaR
3 months ago

The onsen is excellent, with many baths of different temperatures and mud. The eggs are very tasty.

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Last updated July 22, 2026