Hatake Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
畑毛温泉 · Shizuoka
Hatake Onsen (畑毛温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Shizuoka. 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
The northernmost entrance to the string of hot springs down the Izu peninsula — about 28 hectares set inside an ordinary village, straddling two municipalities in Shizuoka. Mt. Daisen (167.2 m) rises to the east, the Kakizawa river runs to the west, and Mt. Fuji shows clearly from the riverbank.
Minamoto no Yoritomo, who would later found the Kamakura shogunate, is said to have rested his warhorses here. In the Edo period it was called Yuzuka-no-yu, and there are records of people coming for cures in the late 1740s.
What makes it what it is: the water is tepid, and you can stay in it a long time. The poet Bokusui Wakayama said exactly that, in a tanka about never tiring of a long soak in this lukewarm bath; his verse is cut into a stone by the river. Akiko Yosano came here too.
Chikuro Hiroike, who founded the study of moral science, stayed here repeatedly and worked on his treatise between rests. A museum in his name stands in the town.
Nearby are the Nirayama reverberatory furnaces, a World Heritage site; a group of cave tombs in the Izu Peninsula Geopark; five national-treasure statues carved by Unkei; and the Egawa house, an Important Cultural Property.
Sources: 環境省 畑毛温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 12 cm |
| Rank | 60 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 2 of 2 in Shizuoka |
| Against the median of 77 | -106 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 31 cm 2–33 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 畑毛温泉韮山温泉土地(株) 第3号源泉 | 0.2 km | 34.5℃ warm | 8.7 alkaline | alkaline simple | 1980 |
| 畑毛温泉観音温泉 | 0.3 km | 35.5℃ warm | 8 mildly alkaline | simple | 1980 |
| 畑毛温泉フジタウン温泉 | 1.2 km | 37℃ warm | 9 alkaline | alkaline simple | 1979 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nirayama Castle韮山城 | Historic site | 3.1 km |
| Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces韮山反射炉 | Historic site | 4.5 km |
| Mishima Taisha三嶋大社 | Shrine | 6.5 km |
| Kakita River柿田川 | Nature | 6.8 km |
| Jukkokutōge Cable Car十国峠十国鋼索線 | Nature | 8.4 km |
| MOA Museum of ArtMOA美術館 | Museum | 10.3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fujiyama Snow Resort Yeti | 30 km | 411 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.