28586 ／ しんおんせんちょう
Hyogo Prefecture 美方郡Water at 98°C rises from the valley floor.
Arayu, Yumura Onsen01 ／ Hot spring
Arayu, the source of Yumura Onsen, runs at 98 degrees, which the town calls the hottest spring in Japan. It rises on the riverbed at the bottom of the valley, where the Yumura fault crosses the valley line. People steam vegetables and boil eggs in it, and a skin lotion has been developed from it. The spring is said to have been found in 848.
02 ／ Drama
NHK's Yumechiyo Nikki, written by Hayasaka Akira and starring Yoshinaga Sayuri, was broadcast three times, in 1981, 1982 and 1984. Yumechiyo, exposed to radiation in the womb and living with leukaemia, keeps the small house her mother left her. The crews came to the town between 1980 and 1983.
03 ／ Mountains
Kato Buntaro was born in Hamasaka in 1905. From about 1928 he climbed alone again and again: Yatsugatake, Yarigatake, Tateyama and Hotakadake under snow. His solo winter ascent of Yarigatake astonished the newspapers and the climbers of the day. In 1936, caught in a blizzard on the Kitakama ridge, he died at 31.
Living here
Hamasaka on the JR San-in Line is the gateway. The Hamakaze limited express takes about 3 hours 45 minutes from Osaka and about 3 hours 20 from Kobe. Tottori is only about 45 minutes away by local train, Toyooka about 70. Yumura Onsen is about 25 minutes by bus from Hamasaka.
−10.1% since 2015
17,467 → 13,318
40.36km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
11.3 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 町公式「新温泉町へのアクセス（公共交通機関）」に載る値 (checked 2026-09-23). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
26.4km
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