Shikano and Yoshioka Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
鹿野・吉岡温泉 · Tottori
Shikano and Yoshioka Onsen (鹿野・吉岡温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Tottori. 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
Two spa villages in eastern Tottori, designated together in 1966.
Shikano lies 4 km south of Hamamura station, backed by Mt. Jubo (921 m) — named, they say, for its resemblance to an eagle with its wings out. The spring itself is not old; what is old here is the castle town. Kamei Korenori, lord of Shikano in the warring-states period, laid out the streets, and the lattice-fronted townhouses, roadside water channels and stone bridges are still there. Nearby is Fuse-no-shimizu, one of Japan's hundred famous waters. There are two inns, a day-use bath called Hotopia Shikano, and a foot bath. The local soba dates only to 1995, when it was planted as a substitute for rice; the Piyo chicken to 2004.
Yoshioka is about 8 km west of Tottori station, on the shore of Lake Koyama, the largest pond in Japan. It is said to have been found roughly a thousand years ago, and it prospered as one of the "three springs of Inaba" alongside Iwai and Katsumi. The Ikeda lords of the Tottori domain came here regularly for cures. Ten inns stand there now, with a day-use bath, Ichi-no-yu. Fireflies appear along the Nagara river in early summer.
Sources: 環境省 鹿野・吉岡温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 62 cm |
| Rank | 50 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 3 of 3 in Tottori |
| Against the median of 77 | -56 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 111 cm 6–117 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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 吉岡温泉 | 0.3 km | — | — | — | 1990 |
| 吉岡温泉共同浴場 | 1.4 km | 38℃ warm | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | 1964 |
| 吉岡温泉中の湯(前) | 1.5 km | 39.5℃ warm | 7.4 neutral | — | 1955 |
| 吉岡温泉中の湯 | 1.5 km | 45.5℃ hot | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | 1964 |
| 吉岡温泉宮町 | 1.5 km | — | — | — | 1967 |
| 吉岡温泉株湯 | 1.6 km | 49℃ hot | 7.7 mildly alkaline | — | 1964 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Koyama-ike湖山池 | Nature | 2 km |
| Hakuto Shrine白兎神社 | Shrine | 3.6 km |
| Jinpūkaku仁風閣 | Landmark | 9.3 km |
| Tottori Castle鳥取城 | Historic site | 9.7 km |
| Tottori Sand Dunes鳥取砂丘 | Nature | 10 km |
| Sand Museum砂の美術館 | Museum | 10.5 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Azo Koen Ski Area | 12 km | 443 of 397 |
| Tajima Farm Park Ski Area | 32 km | 385 of 397 |
| Ojiro Ski Resort | 35 km | 329 of 397 |
| Wakasa Hyonosen Ski Resort | 36 km | 308 of 397 |
| Mikata Snow Park | 37 km | 297 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.