Naganuma Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
ながぬま温泉 · Hokkaido
Naganuma Onsen (ながぬま温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Hokkaido. 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
There is no legend here. This spring was surveyed for, and drilled.
Two years of geological and electrical survey work beginning in 1983 confirmed geothermal water below the town. The borehole struck it at 1,500 metres, where hot water rises on its own, carrying natural gas with it.
The water was piped to the existing Maoi community centre, and lodging and a rest house were added in 1989. Since then the bathing facilities have grown, along with a campground, greenhouses and sports facilities heated by the spring, and channels that use it to clear snow. The Maoi Autoland next door holds a four-star rating from the Japan Auto Camping Federation and is among the best-known campgrounds in Hokkaido.
Naganuma sits at the southern edge of the Ishikari plain, 34 km from Sapporo. Four-fifths of the town is flat; the eastern fifth rises into the Maoi hills.
Sources: 環境省 ながぬま温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 126 cm |
| Rank | 37 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 5 of 5 in Hokkaido |
| Against the median of 77 | +8 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 81 cm 90–171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 長沼長沼町泉源 | 0.1 km | 51℃ hot | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circlesキウス周堤墓群 | Historic site | 13 km |
| Es Con Field HokkaidoエスコンフィールドHOKKAIDO | Leisure | 14.3 km |
| Nopporo Shinrin Kouen Prefectural Natural Park道立自然公園野幌森林公園 | Nature | 19 km |
| Historical Village of Hokkaido北海道開拓の村 | Museum | 19.2 km |
| Hokkaido Museum北海道博物館 | Museum | 19.4 km |
| Chitose Aquariumサケのふるさと 千歳水族館 | Museum | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anpeizan ski resort | 16 km | 320 of 397 |
| Hokkaido Greenland White Park | 19 km | 254 of 397 |
| Haginoyama Shimin Ski Area | 19 km | 260 of 397 |
| Mount Racey | 21 km | 151 of 397 |
| Dynasty Ski Resort | 24 km | 238 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.