[Akaigawa Onsen] Day Trip Bath Can Be Enjoyed at Caldera Onsen Akaigawa Recreation Center

Kiroro Snow World

Kiroro Snow World (キロロスノーワールド) is a large ski resort in Akaigawa locatd in the southern direction of Otaru city, and is one of facilities in Kiroro Resort (キロロリゾート). Property Perfect PCL in Thailand made an equity participation in the Kiroro, and many oversea skiers and oversea snowboarders come. There is a ski resort on hillslopes of Mt. Asaridake (朝里岳) with aboit 1280 m in height and Mt. Nagaminedake (長峰岳) with about 1080 m in height and are 21 ski courses, 9 ski lifts, Terrain Park on the Kiroro Snow World with 1180 m in height. It is known for heavy snow. Sapporo Kokusai Ski Resort (札幌国際スキー場) is the opposite side of the Mt. Asaridake. Backcountry skiing is possible through Kiroro Exits, and you will need to take full responsibility for your action. A business season is mostly from mid November to early May. Read More

Caldera Onsen Akaigawa Recreation Center

Caldera Onsen Akaigawa Recreation Center is a hot spring facility for day trip onsen, and has opened a business since 1983. Bathrrooms are renewed in 2014. When I visited here in the daytime on weekday, it was crowded with local people, so I saw that it was very popular. An entrance fee to the bath facility is JPY 400. A restraunt is at the building, too, and visitors for day trip bath can buy a soft serve ice cream made from the Yamanaka Ranch that is a synonym for the Akaigawa.

There are 1 outdoor bath, 2 indoor baths, 1 cold bath and 1 sauna at a public bathhouse. The bathhouse has 2 public bathrooms and the outdoor bath at the ouside, and the bathrroms are individed into a combination of a large bathroom and Western-style bathroom or Japanese-style bathroom. The bathhouses for men or women are replaced every week. I took a bath at the bathhouse with the Western-style bathroom. Another bathroom with a high ceiling and large windows is not so large, but it is sunny. Large rocks are outstanding. The tiled indoor bath is the size that about 8 poeple can take a bath, and natural free flowing hot springs with adding water, and a lot of the hot springs overflow from the bath.

The Western-style tiled bathroom is small but cozy, and L-shaped tiled indoor bath is set along walls, and is the size that about 6 people can take a bath, and uses natural free flowing hot springs with adding water. Walls of the Japanese-style bathroom is wooden board.

The outdoor bath surrounded by rocks is the size that about 4 people can take a bath, and uses natural free flowing hot springs with adding water. Because it with a roof is surrounded by trees, unfortunately a view is not good. But bathers can take a bath while facing chilly air.

The hot springs are sodium and calcium chloride sulfate spring, and are clear and colorless and have neither taste nor smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 1.450 g/kg. Soaps are provided at the bathrooms, but a shampoo is not provided. A restroom is installed at a dressing room.