BOUROU LAKE TOYA

BOUROU LAKE TOYA

Lodging
Hokkaido·Hokkaido

洞爺湖温泉

Toyako Onsen (blended source)

Mixed source

Sampled at mixing tank
Chloride
+ Sulfate · Bicarbonate
Classification

Sodium-Calcium Chloride spring

Toyako Onsen's blended supply — a mixing of wells 5, 6, 9, 12 and 13 together with the community wells 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 and the KH-1 collector — is a sodium-led chloride spring with sulfate and bicarbonate layered in for a softer finish. The water arrives at the mixing tank at a warm 50.5 °C and neutral pH, carrying a faint yellow tint and a mild salty edge at the source. Moderately mineralized (about 3.1 g/kg dissolved solids) and generously stocked with metasilicic acid at 170.8 mg/kg, it leaves the kind of silica film on the skin that puts it squarely in the Japanese 'beauty-water' family.

pH
6.80
Neutral
Source temperature
50.5°C
Hot
Tonicity
3.08g/kg
Hypotonic
Flow rate
1,400L/min
Very high
Radon
0.20Bq/kg
Low
Color
faintly yellow and clear
Taste
weakly salty
Odor
odorless
Highlights
  • High silica

Analyzed Nov 7, 2023·北海道立衛生研究所

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J

1 month ago· edited

Each room has a private onsen with kakenagashi (free-flowing hot spring water) and a view of the lake. The water is cloudy, yellow, with a faint smell (iodine?) at about 40 degrees Celsius. The hotel is beautiful (booking is expensive - it's hardly available on aggregators), the rooms are spacious, there is no buffet (but there is one in neighboring places). The food is Michelin-style (or maybe it actually is? We're not connoisseurs, we prefer Japanese cuisine). However, there is a washing machine and window screens 🥹