Fukiage onsen is a free, open air, and mixed hot spring.
There are two baths. One large and one a little smaller lying right next to the
large one, but lying a little higher. Both baths are rock baths lying on top of
a little cliff with a quite nice view of the forest. The water is clear and not
too hot, although in the summer it is nice to take a shower under the cool water
being led into the large pool through a plastic tube to keep cool.
There are no rooms to undress in, but only a plastic roof on some steel poles
under where you can undress even in the rain without getting wet. Usually people
undress here, some change into bathing suit, and hang their clothes on the steel
poles.
Fukiage onsen is located in the forest half way up Tokachi-dake. From Kami-Furanotake
route 291 leading to Tokachi-dake onsen. Before reaching Tokachi-dake onsen take
route 966 leading back down the mountain. Going back down the mountain, you will
pass a parking lot on your left side. Pull in here, park, and walk the rest
little way to the hot spring. The walk to the hot spring won't take 5 minutes.
I had slept on a parking lot near Tokachi onsen the night before. It had been
raining, and I had not been able to find Fukiage onsen. I left the parking lot
the following morning and found soon Fukiage onsen. There was a parking lot with
a few cars parked, and a little trail leading down to the hot spring. On my way
down to the hot spring I could hear and see some people in it. It looked pretty
nice being there in the middle of mother nature.
I undressed and got in the hot water with everyone else. Unfortunately they
did not seem be too friendly. There was a young couple both wearing bathing
suits, and while I was there a few more people showed up and all got in in
bathing suits. What a shame people are so shy.
One of the guys I had met at Karamatsu-no-yu a few days before had told me
that Rie Miyazawa had been in this hot spring in some TV series. Maybe that was
why there were so many people, because there was nothing else really special
about this hot spring. Although it was free, open air, and mixed, I did not
enjoy it as much as many of the other hot springs I visited in Hokkaido.
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Fukiage onsen is a free, open air, and mixed hot spring.
Fukiage onsen is located in the forest half way up Tokachi-dake. From Kami-Furanotake
route 291 leading to Tokachi-dake onsen. Before reaching Tokachi-dake onsen take
route 966 leading back down the mountain. Going back down the mountain, you will
pass a parking lot on your left side. Pull in here, park, and walk the rest
little way to the hot spring. The walk to the hot spring won't take 5 minutes.