[Urausu Onsen] Day Trip Bath and Very Salty Hot Springs Can Be Enjoyed at Urausu-Cho Natural Recreation Center

Urausu-Cho Natural Recreation Center

Urausu-Cho Natural Recreation Center (浦臼町自然休養村センター) is a small-sized onsen inn founded in 1991 on the shore of Tsurunuma Park, and is popular with local people. When I visited here in the daytime on weekdays, 8 local people took a bath. An entrance fee to the bath facility is JPY 410. A staying is possible, too. Restaurant Tsurunuma (レストランつるぬま) is at a building, too, and day trip bathers can use it, too.

There are 1 indoor bath, 1 whirlpool bath, 1 cold bath and 1 sauna at a public bathhouse. The sunny bathhouse with a high ceiling and large windoes is feeling good. But it is not so large. Bathers can view Tsurunuma Marsh (鶴沼) through the windows, so a view is very good. The indoor bath placed beside the windows is the size that about 8 people can take a bath, and the circular whirlpool bath is the size that about 2 people can take a bath. The cold bath uses ground water, so it was very cold, and I guess that a bather can feel refreshed.

The hot springs are strong calcium and sodium chloride cold spring, and are clear and colorless and have salty taste and no smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 54.23 g/kg. I guess that the hot spring ingredients are one of the largeest in Hokkaido. The hot springs are very salty taste, and have considerably rich hot spring ingredients. But the hot springs are indeed added water, so the sum total of the hot spring ingredients become diluted. Unfortunately, the hot springs are not drinkable because of circulation type baths. Body soaps are provided at the bathhouse. In addition, a restroom and a free dryer are installed at a dressing room. Ground water for adding water is popular as tasty water, so a faucet for the ground water is provided at the dressing room and the bathhouse, and a lot of the visitors bring those for take-out. When I drinked the water, it was mellow.