Hōheikyō Hot Spring
Natural hot-spring bath where mineral-rich water grows its own cave-like crust on the tub floor.
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This guide to Hoheikyo Hot Spring near Sapporo starts with a rough, cave-like crust along the bathing pool's rim and traces it back to nineteen sixty-six, when a dormitory for dam workers stood on this spot before an owner drilled into the mountain rock and struck mineral-heavy water. It follows what happened after the spring opened in nineteen eighty-seven and how ordinary bathwater, meeting open air, has been quietly building something on the tub floor ever since. Run your fingers along the rim before you get in.
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