Umegashima Onsen-kyo — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
梅ヶ島温泉郷 · Shizuoka
Umegashima Onsen-kyo (梅ヶ島温泉郷) 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
At the northern edge of Shizuoka City, in the topmost valley of the Abe river. Three springs — Umegashima, Shinden and Konya — go under one name, covering some 92.82 km² of the mountainous interior that makes up four-fifths of the city.
The furthest in, Umegashima, appears in records from the warring-states period. The Imagawa and Takeda clans fought over a gold mine here, and once the Takeda held the area the baths were used as a place to mend wounded samurai — hence another of Shingen's hidden springs. Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hidetada are recorded as having come, as are Katsu Kaishu, Yamaoka Tesshu and General Nogi.
In the Second World War the town was requisitioned as a branch of the Imperial Army hospital, and wounded soldiers were sent here to bathe. Four centuries apart, it was put to the same use twice.
After the war the poet Isamu Yoshii stayed at length and wrote a collection here, and a screenwriter finished an NHK historical drama in one of the inns. The local kagura dance is on the national register of folk performing arts to be documented.
The valley is ringed by 2,000-metre peaks and holds the Oya landslip, one of the three great collapses of Japan, along with seven waterfalls. It is about an hour by car from Shizuoka station.
Sources: 環境省 梅ヶ島温泉郷 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 83 cm |
| Rank | 48 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 1 of 2 in Shizuoka |
| Against the median of 77 | -35 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 83 cm 32–115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 梅ヶ島温泉金の湯 | 0.1 km | 41℃ warm | 9.4 alkaline | sulphur | 1957 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Umegashima Onsen梅ヶ島温泉 | Hot spring town | 0.7 km |
| Mount Shichimen七面山 | Mountain | 7.3 km |
| Akasawa赤沢 | Old streets | 10.8 km |
| Kuon-ji Temple久遠寺 | Temple | 11.6 km |
| Mount Minobu身延山 | Mountain | 12.4 km |
| Ikawa Dam井川ダム | Landmark | 14.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fujiten Snow Resort | 35 km | 368 of 397 |
| Fujiyama Snow Resort Yeti | 39 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.