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[Shimo-osobetsu Onsen in Shibecha] Day Trip Bath and Fresh Moor Hot Spring Can Be Enjoyed at Ajikoen

April 24th, 2015

CONTENTS

Shimo-osobetsu Onsen
- Kushiro-Shitsugen Wetland National Park
Day Trip Onsen
- Ajikoen
Accommodations

Shimo-osobetsu Onsen

Shimo-osobetsu Onsen is a hot spring place in Shibecha town located in the northern part of Kushiro city. Only Ajikoen (味幸園) is built in Osobetsu plain (オソツベツ原野) beside the northern tip of Kushiro-Shitsugen Wetland (釧路湿原), and is about 1 km away from Mashu National Route (National Route 391). Unfortunately, restraunts, cafes, cafes, souvenir shops and convenience stores are not built around the building.

As for the Shimo-osobetsu Onsen, simple alkaline spring with moor hot spring are gushed out. The moor spring is brown spring that gushes out from a peat bed or a lignitic bed, and contains a lot of organics of plant origin, so it has slippery touch, and is good for a skin, and is called beauty hot spring (美人の湯), too. The moor spring is different from usual types of the hot springs, and the hot springs are recognized as the moor spring if those contain humus. Hokkaido Shimbun introduced that sodium chloride spring turned into simple alkaline spring because of the Kushiro‐Oki Earthquake in 1993. Wow, strange things do happen.

Kushiro-Shitsugen Wetland National Park

Kushiro-Shitsugen Wetland National Park (釧路湿原国立公園) that 500,000 people visit every year is a famous sightseeing spot in the Eastern Hokkaido and is the largest wetland with 18,290 ha in Japan. It was designed as a wetland under Ramsar Convention in 1980, and developments had been limited strictly. There are many rare animals inhabit and plants including Japanese cranes, Blakiston's fish-owls that are only 100 in Hokkaido, Iijima Ruriboshiyanma (イイジマルリボシヤンマ) that is the remaining specy in the glacial epoch, Itou fish (イトウ) that is said to be a very rare fish, Kushiro jacob's ladder (クシロハナシノブ) that is the remaining specy in the glacial epoch, Bogberry and Yachibouzu (ヤチボウズ). Article is here

Day Trip Onsen

Visitors can take a day trip bath at the Ajikoen.

Ajikoen

Ajikoen is a single-storied hot spring facility for day trip bath in Osobetsu plain, and has opened a business since 1979. A garden is in front of the building, and is appeal, too. The hot spring facility is famous for enjoying 100% natural moor hot springs with smooth and slipery touch, so onsen evangelists highly evaluate the hot springs, and it is popular with local people, too. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 400. When I watched about the Ajikoen on the internet, the hot springs seem to be effective against atopic dermatitis, and a lot of visitors take out the hot springs in their home.

There are 2 indoor baths at a small tiled public bathroom. The large indoor bath is the size that about 5 peopel can take a bath, and the small indoor bath is the size that about 3 people can take a bath. The large indoor bath does not have a faucet for cold water, and the small indoor bath has a faucet for cold water, so it is allowed to add the water for lowering the water temperature. The hot springs of each baths have been gushing out from a mouth of a lion, and the hot springs have been overflowing from bathtubs, and have been flowing freely. It is very comfortable.

In addition, brown hot spring ingredients that have been precipitated on the bath floor and the lion is a highlight. Probably the hot spring ingredients will not precipitate on the part that the hot springs always flow. A lower jaw of the lion is white, and I suppose that the whole might be white in old days. By the way, the hot springs are used as hot water of showers and faucets at wash places.

The hot springs are simple hot spring with moor hot springs, and are clear and brown and have a little sweet taste and moor smell, and have very smooth and slippery touch. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 0.770 g/kg. The meta-silicic acid content is 227.1 mg/kg. It is said that the hot springs including the meta-silicic acid with over 200 mg/kg is effective for beautiful skin. Because the public health center does not admit it, unfortunately the hot springs are not drinkable. Soaps are provided at the bathroom. Because there is not a restroom at a dressing room, you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom along a corridor.

Atmosphere of Shimo-osobetsu Onsen Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Shimo-osobetsu Onsen

Types of Hot Springs	Simple hot spring (Type: Alkaline, Osmotic Pressure: Low, Spring Temperature Type: Extra hot spring)
Water temperature of Hot Spring Source	45.1 C
ph	9.2
Indications	Neuralgia, Muscular pain, Arthralgia, Frozen shoulder, Motor paralysis, Atopic dermatitis, Tightening of the joint, Bruise, Sprain, Hemorrhoid, Chronic digestive diseases, Convalescent convalescence, Relieving fatigue, Healthy increase
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 400. Primary schoolchild: JPY 300. Less than primary schoolchild: JPY 200.
Business hours	10:00-22:00
Regular closing day	Third Thursday
Parking lot	A free parking is provided (30 cars)
Telephone number	+81-15-485-2482
Home page	Home page is not provided
Mapcode	462 051 087*65