Kumi-no-hama Onsen-kyo — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
久美の浜温泉郷 · Kyoto
Kumi-no-hama Onsen-kyo (久美の浜温泉郷) is a nationally designated onsen town in Kyoto. 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 Kumihama, Kyotango, on the north coast of Kyoto prefecture. The inns are scattered around the rim of Kumihama bay.
How that bay came to be is the interesting part. At the height of the last glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, the sea stood more than 100 metres lower than now, and a deep valley ran between two points on this coast. As the sea rose, a sandbar built across the mouth of the valley and closed it off. What was left is the bay: 28 km around, 21 metres deep at the deepest, separated from the Sea of Japan by that single bar of sand.
The bar is called Shotenkyo — a name borrowed from Amanohashidate, the famous sandbar further along this coast.
The water inside is rich in plankton and suits oysters, so racks of them stand across the bay. The oysters are what the place is known for, and the view of the racks is designated a cultural landscape by Kyoto prefecture.
To see the whole arrangement at once, go up to the lookout on Mt. Kabuto: the sandbar, the inland water and the open sea, all in one frame.
Sources: 京丹後ナビ（京丹後市観光公社）「久美浜湾」 · 京丹後ナビ（京丹後市観光公社）「久美浜町」
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 97 cm |
| Rank | 42 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 1 of 2 in Kyoto |
| Against the median of 77 | -21 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 143 cm 22–165 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 久美浜島替温泉丹後久美浜温泉 | 1.5 km | 39.2℃ warm | 7.99 mildly alkaline | — | 1980 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kumihama Bay久美浜湾 | Nature | 3.5 km |
| Shōtenkyō小天橋 | Nature | 4.6 km |
| San'in Kaigan Geopark山陰海岸ジオパーク | Mountain | 8.6 km |
| Genbudō玄武洞 | Nature | 8.6 km |
| Kinosaki Onsen城崎温泉 | Hot spring town | 9.2 km |
| Izushi Castle出石城 | Historic site | 16.2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| UP Kannabe Ski Resort | 23 km | 426 of 397 |
| Hachikita Kogen | 37 km | 279 of 397 |
| Ojiro Ski Resort | 38 km | 329 of 397 |
| Tajima Farm Park Ski Area | 38 km | 385 of 397 |
| Sky Valley Ski Area | 38 km | 342 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.