Akinomiya Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
秋ノ宮温泉 · Akita
Akinomiya Onsen (秋ノ宮温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Akita. We measured how much snow its winters bring, using the same method as for the 3,069 ski areas on this site.
How this place came to be
At the very southern tip of Akita, along the Yakunai river below Mount Kurikoma. The springs are said to have been found in the Nara period, which would make this the oldest hot spring district in Akita. It was busy with people taking cures through the Edo period.
The name has an odd origin. When the modern municipal system came in in 1889, the district sat on the route between Akita and Miyagi prefectures — so the first character of each was taken, and it became Aki-no-miya.
Taka-no-yu, known for its open-air bath, takes its name from a story about a wounded hawk that healed itself in the water. Inazumi, another of the inns, is associated with the novelist Mushanokoji Saneatsu. About ten inns remain.
Sources: 環境省 秋ノ宮温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書 · あきた元気ムラ（秋田県）
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 382 cm |
| Rank | 5 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 1 of 3 in Akita |
| Against the median of 77 | +264 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 286 cm 213–499 cm, leanest to deepest of twelve |
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More places to look
Just the bath
Day passes for hot springs are sold through Asoview. Japanese only.
The list covers the whole prefecture — it cannot be narrowed to this town.
Hot springs nearby, as analysed
4 hot spring sources with published analyses lie within 3 km of the centre of this onsen town, nearest first.
| Source | Distance | Temperature | pH | Type | Analysed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 泥湯川の湯 | 0.2 km | 80.5℃ hot | 6.2 neutral | sulphur | — |
| 川原毛泉源1 | 1 km | 99.2℃ hot | 1.4 acidic | acidic | — |
| 木地山いこいの村 | 2.1 km | 40.1℃ warm | 6.3 neutral | simple | — |
| 栩の湯 | 2.6 km | — | — | simple | — |
These are analyses of hot spring sources, not a list of baths you can visit. They date from 1910 to 2005, many from decades ago, so today’s temperature and chemistry may differ. Names are as recorded in Japanese. Temperature and pH bands follow Japan’s standard for analysing hot springs.
Source: processed from the hot spring analysis data in the Geothermal Information Database (GRES-DB), Geological Survey of Japan, AIST
Worth seeing nearby
Places within 20 km of this onsen town, chosen from those most read about on Wikipedia, favouring places with an English Wikipedia article, and listed nearest first.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Doroyu Onsen泥湯温泉 | Hot spring town | 0.1 km |
| Kawarage Jigoku川原毛地獄 | Historic site | 1 km |
| Kawarageoyu Falls川原毛大湯滝 | Nature | 1.7 km |
| Kurikoma Quasi-National Park栗駒国定公園 | Nature | 14.7 km |
| Mount Kurikoma栗駒山 | Mountain | 15.6 km |
| Isawa Dam胆沢ダム | Nature | 18.1 km |
Based on the Japanese Wikipedia lists of sights in each prefecture, as compiled in travel-log-data (CC BY-SA 4.0). English names from Wikidata (CC0). The content of this section is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ski areas nearby
Up to five within 40 km, straight-line, nearest first. Quality rank is out of the 397 Japanese ski areas.
| Ski area | Distance | Quality rank |
|---|---|---|
| Tengamori Ski Area | 19 km | 258 of 397 |
| Inakawa Ski Area Suberotta | 20 km | 362 of 397 |
| Green Valley Kamuro Ski Area | 20 km | 331 of 397 |
| Jeunesse Kurikoma Ski Area | 21 km | 188 of 397 |
| Onikobe Ski Area | 23 km | 206 of 397 |
These snowfall figures are estimates
The snowfall shown here is an estimate produced by a weather model, not a record of what actually fell.
We compared it against 63 Japan Meteorological Agency weather stations to see how far off it is. On average it comes to about six tenths of the real figure — it runs low. And it runs low by different amounts in different places: some read barely a third of what was measured, others match almost exactly. Mountains tend to read lowest.
We tried scaling everything up by a fixed amount to correct for it. It barely helped, because the error differs from place to place.
So treat these numbers as a guide to roughly where somewhere sits, not a precise figure. There is no meaning in the gap between first and second, or between 30th and 35th. Large differences between regions are real and can be read as they are.
We considered correcting the figures against the observations. But this ranking covers 3,069 ski areas across ten countries, and only Japan can be checked against weather stations. Correcting Japan alone would lift Japanese resorts above the Alps and North America with nothing behind it. Every place here is measured the same way instead.
Where a nearby weather station can be used, we print what it actually recorded on that ski area's own page.