High tempetature

High Temperature bathing 時間湯　
Kusatsu Onsen

Kusatsu 時間湯 at Jizo spring !!

Kusatsu Onsen is known as a great place for onsen remedies.
Kusatsu Onsen has strong acidity and high temperatures. For a long time, many people have stayed there to cure and heal various diseases. There is a well-known Japanese song that goes, “Kusatsu’s spring can be a remedy for every disease, but it loves illness.” This song shows how Kusatsu has been famous for health treatments since ancient times, doesn’t it?

Yu-pon loves this onsen. The Sainokawara open-air bath, which is as large as a swimming pool, is my favorite, and I also like Ootakino-yu with its classical public style.
Additionally, there is an express bus from Shinjuku and Tokyo Station to the Kusatsu bus terminal, which takes about 4 hours. This is a very easy way for a first-time traveler in Japan to get there. Could you believe that just bathing in high-temperature onsen water can improve your health condition?

So, Yu-pon is paying attention to the traditional high-temperature 48°C bathing from the Edo period that is practiced at Jizono-yu and Chiyono-yu under the guidance of experienced health management experts, known as onsen masters. This high-temperature bathing method is called Jikan-yu. It is said that just 3 minutes of bathing in 48°C water is effective for treating various diseases. The range of diseases it can treat is vast, including even cancer too.

Yu-pon read a report about cancer cells dying at temperatures over 41°C, and another report mentioned 39°C. These reports cover other cases, including one where a terminal cancer patient contracted pneumonia with a high fever. When the patient recovered from pneumonia, the doctor found a miracle: every cancer cell had disappeared from the patient’s body. Yu-pon heard a similar story from her graduate school teacher. His aunt turned 70, when she had stage 4 stomach cancer. After recovering from a high fever caused by influenza, her cancer was somewhere disappeared, and she lived until the age of 99.

It is a doubt if 3min bathing in 48℃ makes the internal cell of body to reach over 41℃. That is a big question! Jikan-yu onsen master say that many times accumulation of High Temperature bathing gives the patient to increase an immune strength speaking about it.

The process is as follows