Hakusan Onsen-kyo — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
白山温泉郷 · Ishikawa
Hakusan Onsen-kyo (白山温泉郷) is a nationally designated onsen town in Ishikawa. 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
A group of springs at the foot of Mount Haku (2,702 m) in Ishikawa — Chugu, Iwama, Ichirino and Tedori among them.
Chugu claims twelve centuries. The story is that Taicho Daishi, the monk who opened Mount Haku to religious practice, found an injured white dove by a stream and noticed hot water rising nearby. But there is a second version, in which villagers who had gone deep into the mountains to farm found the dove instead. Both agree that a white dove showed the way; they disagree only about who was watching.
The first bathhouse was built in 1574. Chugu has long been regarded as water for the stomach and gut, and people still come to stay and soak.
The mountain itself is the point. The Hakusan festival, held in mid-July, traces its origin to Taicho's opening of the peak.
Sources: 環境省 白山温泉郷 国民保養温泉地計画書 · 石川県白山自然保護センター『白山の自然誌44 白山の秘湯・中宮温泉の歴史』
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 236 cm |
| Rank | 17 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Against the median of 77 | +118 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 410 cm 75–485 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 瀬波川温泉瀬波川温泉1号源泉 | 2.1 km | 28℃ lukewarm | 8.9 alkaline | bicarbonate | 1974 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shirayama Hime Shrine白山比咩神社 | Shrine | 11.4 km |
| Awazu Onsen粟津温泉 | Hot spring town | 17.6 km |
| Tedori Fish Land手取フィッシュランド | Leisure | 18.5 km |
| Motorcar Museum of Japan日本自動車博物館 | Museum | 19 km |
| Yuwaku Onsen湯涌温泉 | Hot spring town | 20 km |
| Nata-dera Temple那谷寺 | Temple | 20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hakusan Senjo Onsen Seymour Ski Area | 4 km | 261 of 397 |
| SAM Hakusan Ichirino Ski Resort | 10 km | 235 of 397 |
| Ookuradake Kogen Ski Area | 11 km | 419 of 397 |
| Kanazawa Municipal Ski Resort | 24 km | 319 of 397 |
| IOX-AROSA | 25 km | 303 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.