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[Biratori Onsen] Day Trip Onsen Can Be Enjoyed at Biratori Onsen Yukara
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Biratori Onsen
Biratori Onsen (平取温泉) is a hot spring place in Biratori town located in southeastern direction of Sapporo city. Biratori Onsen Yukara (びらとり温泉 ゆから) is built a small hill. Nibutani Familyland Park is developed around here, and there are a park golf course, an automobile camping ground, bungalows and a tennis court. Around here is well-known as a place related with Ainu culture, and Nibutani Dam and Ainu Culture Museum are near here. In addition, Memu Lily of the valley Colony (芽生すずらん群生地) is reralively near here. There are a restraunt, a cafe and a souvenir shop around here, but convenience stores are not built. As for tasty restraunts in the Biratori, Yukara (ゆから) and Jankenpon (じゃんけんぽん) are popular in particular.

Lake Nibutani
Lake Nibutani (二風谷湖) is a man-made lake in the northeastern part of Biratori town. Nibutani Dam (二風谷ダム) was built in 1997, and the lake was born. The Nibutani Dam is a concrete gravity dam of 32 m height, and the water surface is 4 km2. It features that the form is cool. Here used to be a sacred place for Ainu people, and it is famous that a lawsuit about expropriation of land was filed. Sarugawa History Museum (沙流川歴史館), Nibutani Ainu History Museum (二風谷アイヌ歴史館), walks, Chashi Park (チャシ公園) are around the Lake Nibutani. Admission free. A parking lot is free of charge. Read More

List of Day Trip Onsen
Tourists can take a day trip bath at the Biratori Onsen Yukara.
Biratori Onsen Yukara
Biratori Onsen Yukara is a small-sized onsen inn run by Ambix group, and has opened a business since 2014. An entrance fee to the bath facility is JPY 500. A chartered bath is provided, and an extra cost is JPY 2700 per 60 minutes. A restraunt and a shop are at the building, too, and visitors for day trip bath can use the restraunt. Meals using local ingredients such as Biratori Wagyu Beef (びらとり和牛) or Biratori Tomato "Nishipa-no-Kojibito" (平取トマト「ニシパの恋人」) have a good reputation. A staying is possible, too.

There are 2 outodoor bath, 2 indoor baths, 1 whirlpool bath, 1 cool bath and 1 sauna at a public bathhouse. The sunny bathhouse with a lot of windows is feeling good. The whirlpool bath, the large indoor bath and the small indoor bath are set beside the windows. The large indoor bath uses heated cold springs with adding water, and water temperature is around 42 C. The whirlpool bath uses heated water, and water temperature is around 39 C. The small indoor bath uses artificial carbonated spring puroduced by Mitsubishi Rayon, and water temperature is around 39 C. The outdoor baths have 1 bath surrounded by rocks and 1 wooden bath, and use heated cold springs with adding water, and water temperature is around 43 C.

The hot springs are strong sodium and calcium chloride cold spring, and are clear and colorless and have salty taste and no smell, and are not drinkable because of circulation type baths. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 22.06 g/kg. Shampoos and body soaps are provided at the bathhouse. A restroom and free hair dryers are installed at a dressing room.
Types of Hot Springs | Strong sodium and calcium chloride cold spring (Type: Weak alkaline, Osmotic Pressure: High, Spring Temperature Type: Cold spring) |
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Water temperature of Hot Spring Source | 12.1 C |
ph | 8.3 |
Indications | Neuralgia, Muscular pain, Arthralgia, Frozen shoulder, Motor paralysis, Tightening of the joint, Bruise, Sprain, Relieving fatigue, Chronic digestive diseases, Hemorrhoid, Cold sensitivity, Convalescent convalescence, Weak child, Chronic skin diseases, Chronic women's diseases, Cut, Burn |
Contraindications | Acute disease(when there is the heat in particular), Active tuberculosis, Malignant tumor, Severe heart disease, Respiratory failure, Renal insufficiency, Hemorrhagic disease, High anemia, Other diseases during condition of a patient progress generally |
Indications of drinking | Not drinking |
Facilities | Outdoor bath(2), Indoor bath(4), Sauna(1). * Sex-Segregated Bathhouse. There is a chartered bath. |
Entrance fee to the bath facility | Adult: JPY 500. Elementary school student: JPY 140. Infant: Free of charge. |
Business hours | 10:00-22:00 |
Regular closing day | Irregular closing day |
Parking lot | A parking lot is provided (200 cars) |
Telephone number | +81-1457-2-3280 |
Home page | Home page is here |
Reservation | ![]() |
Mapcode | 442 830 190*00 |
[Shut Down] Elderly Citizens' Welfare Center
Elderly Citizens' Welfare Center is a hot spring facility for day trip onsen founded in 1977. An entrance fee to the bath facility is JPY 500. Unfortunately, They closed down in 2014. This article before closing is as follows.


There are 1 indoor bath and 1 whirlpool bath at a public bathhouse. The octagonal bathhouse is divided into 2 public bathrooms for men or women. The sunny bathroom with a lot of windows is feeling good.



A huge bath surrounded by rocks catch bather's eyes first. The rocks are Kotaro-stones (幸太郎石) mined only in the Biratori. The bath is the size that about 10 people can take a bath, and water temperature is around 42 C. The whirlpool bath is the size that about 3 people can take a bath, and water temperature is around 39 C. Both baths use heated cold springs. Hot springs pour into the large bath, and it is like a cascading bath.



The hot springs are cold spring, and are clear and colorless and have neither taste nor smell, and are not drinkable because of circulation type baths. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 0.433 g/kg. Shampoos and body soaps are provided at the bathhouse.
Atmosphere of Biratori Onsen Can Be Watched on Youtube
Movie of Biratori Onsen
Types of Hot Springs | Cold spring (Type:Neutral, Osmotic Pressure:Low, Spring Temperature Type:Cold spring) |
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Water temperature of Hot Spring Source | 14.5 C |
ph | 6.9 |
Contraindications | Acute disease(when there is the heat in particular), Active tuberculosis, Malignant tumor, Severe heart disease, Respiratory failure, Renal insufficiency, Hemorrhagic disease, High anemia, Other diseases during condition of a patient progress generally |
Indications of drinking | Not drinking |
Facilities | Indoor bath(2). * Sex-Segregated Bathhouse. |
Entrance fee to the bath facility | Adult: JPY 500. Child: JPY 200. |
Business hours | 10:00-21:00 |
Regular closing day | Monday |
Parking lot | A free parking is provided (200 cars) |
Telephone number | +81-1457-2-3280 |
Home page | Home page is here |
Mapcode | 442 830 040*55 |
List of Accommodations
Refer to following websites for the accommodations in the Biratori Onsen. You can get information regarding online reviews and photos.
By the way, Club Tourism (クラブツーリズム), a Japanese tour travel agency, provides various types of tours such as day trip tours or ordinary tours. In the case of bus tours, tourists do not drive their cars themselves, so they can savor alcohol. Choosen tourist attractions are national parks such as Rishiri and Rebun, Shiretoko, and popular tourist places such as Furano and Biei, and some activities such as hiking and fruit picking are also enjoyed depending on seasons. If you are interested in tour trips, you should visit the club tourism's website for details.
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