settling and calming; can leave a white mineral bloom.
Chloride Cl⁻
table-salt anion — coats the skin and holds heat in.
Known good for
Warmingcold sensitivity
Circulationtired legs
Aches & jointsstiff shoulders
A calcium- and sodium-led chloride spring with sulfate adding quiet body, classified as a high-temperature source. Moderately mineralized at 3,283 mg/kg of dissolved solids and weakly alkaline, it feels soft on the skin. With around 64 mg/kg of metasilicic acid it leans toward the beauty-water family, leaving skin noticeably smoother.
Analyzed Dec 17, 2012·東邦化工建設株式会社 三島分析センター·Cert no. 第12-1006号
Yamada Yu is a one-tub neighborhood bathhouse in Atami, its single indoor tub sized for about three people and tiled with an old mural of a waterwheel and Mt. Fuji. The water is kakenagashi, piped in from Atami's shared hot-spring source, clear and a touch sweet-salty on the skin. Run by the Yamada family on a narrow lane in a quiet residential corner since it opened around 1955, the bathhouse was mixed bathing until the sexes were separated in 1962, and there's no staffed front counter: if nobody's there, you knock on the house next door.
198. 山田湯, Atami
Adding to the previous review. Turns out last time they weren't cooling the water during the day - they were actually heating it. Came early in the morning about 40 minutes after opening - water temperature was 39.6-39.8 with the hot water tap on. Last time I was here in July and it was stuffy inside, but now in November breathing was comfortable.
198. Yamada-yu, Atami ★
An old-school onsen, it is quite far from the station and tucked away in the back streets, so you still have to find it. Costs ¥300. I went in the evening. They stamp the 60+6 onsen of Shizuoka. The photo of the bath itself is from the internet, and it matches.
The water in the bath was scorching hot, and without diluting it a lot, getting in was impossible. It was stuffy inside. There are no showers, body soap, or shampoo.
This was exactly the story with the old man that I posted earlier when I visited, so I will repeat it. I walk in, and there is an old man sitting by the bath, washing himself. There is a separate cold-water tap turned on at the bath, so I thought the old man had already diluted everything. I go up to the bath, and the old man says something in Japanese, meaning the water is hot. I pour water over my foot with a basin and realize the water is insanely hot. In the end, the old man and I teamed up, I kept running cold water from both taps into basins and then into the bath, and the old man stirred it. In the end I poured in about 40 basins and was able to physically get in, soaked as long as I could, and got out. But looking at the old man, it was still hot, he would move his hand around, then scoop some water into a basin and pour a little of it over himself from the basin with his hand. I ask if I should add more cold water. The old man got embarrassed and said it was okay, and so on. I was like, no, that won't do. I start the basin-and-cold-water conveyor again, the old man starts stirring again, another 15 to 20 basins or so, and the old man was able to get into the bath.
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