Kindaichi Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
金田一温泉 · Iwate
Kindaichi Onsen (金田一温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Iwate. 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 quiet spa on the Mabechi river, northeast of Ninohe in Iwate. The nearest station on the IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway is called Kintaichi-Onsen, and the station takes its name from the spring.
The water is said to have been found in 1626. Because it rose up through the rice paddies, it was first called Yuda — the paddy spring. In 1712 the Nanbu domain designated it an official bathing place for cures.
Until 1951 the town used a handful of natural springs. After that it drilled: ten boreholes by 1988, two more in 1989 and 1990. The water is now gathered centrally and distributed to each inn.
There were once more than twenty inns here. Today seven bathing places remain, drawing on four sources.
Sources: 環境省 金田一温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 118 cm |
| Rank | 39 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 2 of 2 in Iwate |
| Against the median of 77 | 0 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 101 cm 75–176 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 金田一金栄の湯 | 0.8 km | 35℃ warm | 8.1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kunohe Castle九戸城 | Historic site | 6.2 km |
| Sannohe Castle三戸城 | Historic site | 7.2 km |
| 名久井岳 | Mountain | 7.2 km |
| Goshono Site御所野遺跡 | Historic site | 14 km |
| Nesori no dai keikaboku根反の大珪化木 | Nature | 15.1 km |
| grave of Jesus in Shingōキリストの墓 (日本) | Historic site | 19.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Soyumura 229 Ski Land | 21 km | 354 of 397 |
| Okunakayamakogen Ski Area | 28 km | 239 of 397 |
| Tayama Ski Area (Hachimantai City) | 37 km | 219 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.