Hardness
19.0
pH
7.4
Amount of Water Withdrawn (liter/minute)
10
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The gushing point of Oshimizu. Since it is located deep in a protected forest, currently, it is not accessible to visitors.
After passing Tokura on Route 401 (Numata Highway), go straight for about 8 km while looking at the Katashina River on your right. The area is surrounded by mountains, and this intake is located deepest into the mountain among the ten exquisite waters of Katashina Village. There are restaurants and rest houses around the main parking lot and visitors can get some spring water, which store owners have drawn from the gushing point, in front of the stores. Enjoy the spring water that is cold even in summer.
While currently, the road is closed to vehicles here, the road itself continues to Hienomata Village in Fukushima. This is the Numata Kaido (Way) where trading between Aizu and Joshu used to be conducted.
Surrounding Area Information
Here, you can see Asian skunk cabbages that sprout out of the remaining snow at the end of April before the hiking season starts in a full-fledged manner and when the Golden Week holidays begin. Since there is a wide wheelchair-accessible boardwalk, you can follow it while appreciating white Asian skunk cabbages that admirably blossom in snowmelt.
Here, you can see Asian skunk cabbages that sprout out of the remaining snow at the end of April before the hiking season starts in a full-fledged manner and when the Golden Week holidays begin. Since there is a wide wheelchair-accessible boardwalk, you can follow it while appreciating white Asian skunk cabbages that admirably blossom in snowmelt.
While Oze is well known as Ozegahara, the route from Oshimizu is well known among hikers and mountain climbers. Starting from Oshimizu and walking in the mountain along a stream for about two and a half hours will lead you to the lakeside of Ozenuma where you can have the best view of Hiuchigatake. On the way, there is the Ichinose rest house with a watering place that is known to those in the know. Water of this watering place is the best water recommended by the Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences that conducted the water quality testing of watering places in the mountains in Gunma.
Oshimizu is the place where swamps and streams in the mountains surrounding it gather and if you follow the streams, you will head toward the source of the Katashina River.
While Oze is well known as Ozegahara, the route from Oshimizu is well known among hikers and mountain climbers. Starting from Oshimizu and walking in the mountain along a stream for about two and a half hours will lead you to the lakeside of Ozenuma where you can have the best view of Hiuchigatake. On the way, there is the Ichinose rest house with a watering place that is known to those in the know. Water of this watering place is the best water recommended by the Gunma Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences that conducted the water quality testing of watering places in the mountains in Gunma.
Oshimizu is the place where swamps and streams in the mountains surrounding it gather and if you follow the streams, you will head toward the source of the Katashina River.
Parking Information
Visitor parking is available.
