北海道足寄町、オンネトー湯の滝。
地球活動の縮図、生きた鉱床。北海道足寄町、道道オンネトー線を進み、秘境湖のほとり。2万年前から火山活動を続ける、阿寒富士由来の湯滝。

雌阿寒岳山麓の原生林を抜けた先に有るこの場所は、湯に含まれるマンガンイオンが菌と藻類の働きにより鉱物化、安山岩質の崖に体積することで成る、天然のマンガン鉱床。

山腹から湧き出す湯滝は、真冬でも凍らない。自然が興した奇跡の場所として、季節を超え、時代を超え、原始からの歴史を刻み続ける。

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Located by ASHORO, Onneto Hot falls Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido Japan.

A living mineral deposit, the epitome of earth activity. Ashoro-cho, Hokkaido, on the Onneto road, on the shore of an unexplored lake, is a hot waterfall derived from Akan Fuji, a volcano that has been active for 20,000 years

This place which has an end where the primeval forest of the foot of a female Mt. Akan passed is a natural manganese deposit which consists of the manganese ion included in hot water volumizing into the cliff of mineralization and andesitic by the workings of a fungus and an algae.

The hot waterfall that gushes out of the mountainside does not freeze even in the middle of winter. As a miraculous place created by nature, it continues to carve a history from the primordial era, transcending the seasons and times.

Music

“Hymn” by Jonathan Barlow