1. Biefu Hot Spring, Oita Prefecture
Beppu Hot Spring is located in Kyushu Island, southwest Japan, and belongs to Oita Prefecture. Beppu Bay in the east, Hejian Mountain with Asu National Park in the west, is a hot spring holy place with mountains and seas. The biggest feature of Beppu is its rich hot spring resources, which are rare in the world. Its spring water discharge is second only to Yellowstone National Park in the United States, ranking second in the world. According to the classification of hot spring water quality, there are 1 1 kinds of hot springs in the world, and there are as many as 10 kinds in Beppu, which is the most concentrated area in the world. Therefore, Beppu has become the preferred hot spring tourist city for the Japanese.
2. Rehai Hot Springs in Shizuoka Prefecture
Rehai has been a famous hot spring resort since ancient times, and the earliest hot spring record dates back to 1200 years ago. It is one of the most famous hot spring resorts in Japan. There are 262 hot springs above 42℃, and the total number of hot springs per minute exceeds 20,000 liters, ranking fourth among Japanese hot spring resorts. There are many hot springs in Rehai, among which the most famous are Seven Springs in Rehai, namely, Da Tang, Heyuan Tang, George Lang Tang, Saemon Tang, Lv Feng Tang, Ozawa Tang and Nakano Tang.
Rehai hot springs are mainly "weak salt springs" containing salt similar to sea salt. After taking a hot spring bath, the salt will remain on the skin, which has a good moisturizing effect and will not feel cold after taking a hot spring bath. It also has sweating effect and can promote human metabolism, so it has curative effect on rheumatism, neuralgia, dermatosis and visceral diseases.
3. Cao Jin Hot Springs in Gunma County
Cao Jin Hot Spring, also known as "Medicine Soup", is located in Caojin Town, Gunma County, where my wife is located. It has always been famous for its beautiful natural environment and extremely high curative effect. Since ancient times, it has been a famous hot spring for treating diseases and strengthening the body. Its springs are hydrogen sulfide acid springs and acid sulfate springs, and the water temperature is as high as 50℃ ~ 96℃. It is effective for rheumatic diseases, neuralgia, chronic dermatoses, trauma, diabetes, etc. The natural gushing amount of hot springs in Cao Jin is about 40,000 liters per minute, ranking first among Japanese hot springs. In the "Tangtian" of Wenquan Street in Cao Jin, steaming hot spring water keeps flowing all year round. There is also a traditional activity in Cao Jin Hot Springs, which is to stir the spring water in the hot spring bath with long wooden boards, so that the medicinal components in the hot spring can be mixed evenly, the temperature can be lowered, the curative effect can be improved, and it has become the symbol of Hot Spring Street.
Among many hot springs, the following five kinds of hot spring soups are now particularly famous in Japan.
Three-minute Bath Time Soup-Cao Jin Hot Springs. Cao Jin Hot Springs is located in Gunma County. The colder the weather, the more smog, and its biggest feature is strong acidity. The PH value is 1.5, which has a strong sterilization and detoxification effect, and has a good curative effect on beriberi and dermatosis patients. Because the temperature of this spring water is as high as 60 degrees, you can't take a bath, and adding water to dilute it for fear of affecting the curative effect, so you invented the method of drawing water with wooden boards to cool down. In the past, there was a famous soup bath called "Tang Chang" in Cao Jin. While shouting the beat, someone was holding a soup board about 1.8 meters long and 30 centimeters wide, listening to the beat to cool down. Then the soup guests take a bath in turn, but each person is limited to 3 minutes, so it is named "Time Soup". In addition, Cao Jin also has "Four Seasons Soup" with orange or lavender fragrance, and recently launched a hot spring slimming soup for slimming and beautifying.
Eye-catching soup-Zuodu Hot Spring: This soup is in a place called "Sadoshima". There are 10 hot springs in Sadoshima, most of which are salt springs. Among them, there is a warm legend about hot springs called "Anshou Chef Wang Zhi Soup". According to legend, the blind old mother shed tears in search of her missing daughter An Shou and her son Chef Wang, so there are salty springs everywhere in this area. This spring water contains boric acid and carrot acid which are beneficial to eyes, and has the functions of improving chronic eye diseases and improving eyesight.
Kawabata Yasunari's romantic Snow Country Soup-Tangze Hot Spring: "The long tunnel through the county seat is the Snow Country ..." This is the prologue of the award-winning work Snow Country by Japanese Nobel Prize writer Kawabata Yasunari. This sentence can be said to be a well-known and catchy sentence in Japan. Last year coincided with the centenary birthday of Yasunari Kawabata and the 60th anniversary of the publication of Snow Country. Tangze County has certainly become the most popular place in winter, and the hot springs in Tangze have also become the snow country soup that Kawabata Yasunari must soak on his romantic trip.