Ashoro Onsen Hokkaido

Ashoro Onsen Hokkaido is a hot spring facility in Ashoro Town in the Tokachi Subprefecture of Hokkaido, a community notable for the Ashoro Museum of Paleontology, one of Japan's finest dinosaur fossil repositories, where the remarkable discovery of Kamuysaurus japonicus — the Japanese dragon god dinosaur, a large hadrosaur species found only in Hokkaido — has established the Tokachi region as one of Asia's most significant Cretaceous fossil sites and given Ashoro an international identity as a center of paleontological research and public science education. The town sits between the Tokachi Plain and the volcanic highlands leading to the Akan National Park, providing convenient access to the extraordinary crater lake landscapes of Lake Akan, Lake Mashu, and Lake Kussharo within one of Hokkaido's most celebrated national park ecosystems, where the eerie clarity of Lake Mashu and the otherworldly steam vents of the Kawayu thermal fields create a landscape of volcanic wonder. The chloride thermal spring waters of Ashoro offer comfortable bathing in a community where dinosaur fossil heritage, proximity to Akan's magnificent volcanic lakes, and the broad agricultural horizon of the Tokachi plain combine in one of eastern Hokkaido's most geologically and naturally interesting small-town hot spring destinations.