Chikugogawa Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
筑後川温泉 · Fukuoka
Chikugogawa Onsen (筑後川温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Fukuoka. 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
In Ukiha, Fukuoka, on an island in the Chikugo river — Kyushu's largest — between the main channel and a flood bypass.
There is no old legend attached to this spring. The site was a mulberry field. A borehole struck water in 1955, and the place was designated in 1968. Six inns operate here now.
What the land does have is a history of water. Until about 350 years ago the Chikugo ran below the level of the plain, and none of it could be drawn off; most of the plain was scrub and woodland. That changed with an irrigation channel completed in 1664. The broad fields you see today were made by it. The weir and the stone works that divide the flow are still there, and schoolchildren come to study them.
The other channel, the one on the far side of the spa, is a memory of water too. After a catastrophic flood in 1953 it was begun in 1957 and finished in 1967. On ordinary days it serves as a walking course and a park-golf ground.
In spring, rape flowers cover the riverbank.
Sources: 環境省 筑後川温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 10 cm |
| Rank | 62 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 1 of 2 in Fukuoka |
| Against the median of 77 | -108 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 16 cm 3–19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 筑後川桑の湯 | 0.3 km | 34.9℃ warm | 8.8 alkaline | alkaline simple | — |
| 林田 | 1.8 km | 21.8℃ cold | 8.2 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| 原鶴寿泉 | 2.8 km | 55.2℃ hot | 8.3 mildly alkaline | simple | — |
| 星丸 | 2.9 km | 25.5℃ lukewarm | 8.3 mildly alkaline | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ukiha Inari Shrine浮羽稲荷神社 | Shrine | 4.2 km |
| Horikawa Aqueduct堀川用水 | Historic site | 4.8 km |
| Kangien咸宜園 | Historic site | 12.3 km |
| Mount Hiko英彦山 | Mountain | 17 km |
| Hikosan Jingū英彦山神宮 | Shrine | 17.2 km |
| Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum筑前町立大刀洗平和記念館 | Museum | 18.7 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
No ski area on this site lies within 40 km.
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.