Iwase Yumoto [Hot Spring] - Iwase Yumoto

...The main industries are agriculture, mainly rice and vegetable cultivation, sericulture, and livestock farming, but depopulation has progressed in recent years, and the population, which was over 10,000 in 1955, has dropped sharply. In 1960, the area was designated a depopulated area, but in recent years the population has started to increase slightly due to the attraction of businesses and the development of housing complexes. There are hot springs such as Ten'ei Onsen (gypsum spring, 11°C), Iwase Yumoto Onsen (gypsum salt spring, 52°C), and Futamata Onsen (gypsum spring, 44°C), and tourism development is actively underway, taking advantage of the area's blessed natural environment. [Sato Yuji]...

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…米作や野菜栽培，養蚕，畜産を中心とする農業が主産業であるが，近年過疎化が進み，1955年当時1万人をこえた人口は激減し，60年には過疎地域指定を受けたが，近年は企業誘致と住宅団地造成により人口はわずかながら増加に転じた。天栄温泉(セッコウ泉，11℃)，岩瀬湯本温泉(セッコウ食塩泉，52℃)，二岐（ふたまた）温泉(セッコウ泉，44℃)などがあり，恵まれた自然環境を生かして観光開発も積極的に行われている。【佐藤 裕治】。…

※「岩瀬湯本[温泉]」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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