Yuki and Yunoyama Onsen — Spring Water Analysis, Temperature and Snowfall
湯来・湯の山温泉 · Hiroshima
Yuki and Yunoyama Onsen (湯来・湯の山温泉) is a nationally designated onsen town in Hiroshima. 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
Northwest of Hiroshima city, in Yuki, where a river of the Ota system has cut a deep valley. The rock is granite, and the water rises through deep fissures along a fault line. Yuki Onsen was designated in 1955, Yunoyama in 1972.
Yuki is called the back parlour of Hiroshima. Villagers are said to have found it after watching a wounded egret treat its injury in the stream. From late June to mid-July, three species of firefly — all naturally breeding, which is unusual in Japan — rise along the river.
Yunoyama is said to have burst from between rocks on the hillside some 1,200 years ago. It stopped flowing at one point, then started again. In the Edo period it served the lords of Hiroshima. In 1974 the old bathing ground around its shrine was designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property: a plain tub hollowed out of the rock face, the bathhouse, and the shrine itself survive as they were, and together they show how medicine and belief were bound up with each other. The modern bathhouse has something rare in this region — a cold, unheated source falling four metres onto your shoulders.
The local kagura troupe has passed down its dances since the Iwami style reached here in the 1830s. One of its pieces was made a prefectural folk cultural property in 1963.
Sources: 環境省 湯来・湯の山温泉 国民保養温泉地計画書
Snowfall in winter
| Per season | 39 cm |
| Rank | 54 of 77 ranked onsen |
| Within prefecture | 1 of 2 in Hiroshima |
| Against the median of 77 | -79 cm median 118 cm |
| Winter to winter | 53 cm 14–67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 湯山温泉 | 0 km | 23.6℃ cold | — | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiroshima Big Arch広島広域公園陸上競技場 | Park | 11.9 km |
| Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center広島県立総合体育館 | Leisure | 19.1 km |
| Hiroshima Castle広島城 | Historic site | 19.2 km |
| Hiroshima Peace Memorial原爆ドーム | Landmark | 19.3 km |
| Shima Hospital島病院 | Historic site | 19.4 km |
| Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park平和記念公園 | Park | 19.4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Megahiraonsen Megahira Ski Area | 14 km | 440 of 397 |
| Osorakan Snow Park | 17 km | 398 of 397 |
| Geihoku Kokusai | 24 km | 396 of 397 |
| Yawata Highland 191 Resort | 25 km | 405 of 397 |
| Osa Ski Resort | 28 km | 420 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.