Radium 2:Masutomi onsen
Top 3 Radium Onsen in Japan
Masutomi Onsen
Best radium inhalation effect Onsen
Masutomi Onsen is famous as “Shingen’s hidden spring.”
Takeda Shingen, who was one of the brilliant daimyo (feudal lords) in the Warring States period (1467–1568). He sent many wounded soldiers to the onsen for cure after battles. He also employed ninjas a lot also.
Masutomi Onsen has the highest amount of radium in onsen water in Japan. The treatment at Masutomi Onsen is different from that of Tamagawa Onsen. Masutomi Onsen does not have bedrock bathing or highly acidic onsen water.
The temperature of this onsen is nearly 30℃, and the color of the onsen water is brown. The bathing people usually stay in this cold onsen for about 30 minutes and inhale radon gas that floats 5 cm above the surface. The radium inhalation treatment provides a good radiation hormesis effect(natural healing power) to the patient. The process is as follows:
- Radon contained in the onsen evaporates into radon gas.
- Radon gas is inhaled into the chest.
- The gas merges into the bloodstream and circulates throughout the body.
- This blood gas removes waste substances from every body cell.
- There is a remarkable recovery of autonomic nervous system function.
- Self-healing power improves significantly.
This radon is radon-222, which has a half-life period of only 4 days and will disappear from the body within a month.
Yu-pon went there three times and had three big surprises.
First: Masutomi Onsen is located in a village deep in the mountains. Yu-pon saw many Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, luxurious Benzes, and BMWs in the parking lot of Furoukaku. Yu-pon had never seen this scene even in the parking lots of other famous hotels.
Second: The story at Furoukaku. A very old woman who was brought to this ryokan by her son, who was around 50 years old. The son requested that Furoukaku take care of his mother during her stay and then went back his home. The main bath is located in the basement. Astonishingly, This old lady couldn’t walk. so she was brought to the basement for bathing baths by the ryokan staff. Two days later, Yu-pon witnessed the incredible scene of the old lady climbing up the steps from the basement by herself.
Third: When Yu-pon was at Tuganerou, the Ryokan worker told me that the onsen spring nearby the roadside of Tuganerou had good health benefits.
So, Yu-pon collected the spring water and drank it later when they caught a cold. The taste was very bad, smelling metallic and bitter, but Yu-pon could make a recovery in only one day.
Access
| Name; | Masutomi onsen Furoukaku |
| Place; | 6672 Obi, SudamaTown, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture |
| By car; | from Choufu I.C. on Chuo Expressway, get off Sudama I.C. 1h45min take R27, R141, R23 30min |
| By train; | from Shinjuku to Nirasaki (Chuo-line) express 1h50min Nirasaki station to Masutomi Onsen bus 50min |
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