Hot spring in Kyushu

I am planning to travel to Kyushu for a hot spring trip in March next year.

There are several popular destinations within Kyushu, i.e. Beppu, Kurokawa onsen, Mountain Aso and Yufuin.

Since I had a bad reaction after exposing to the whitish sulphur-containing hot spring water years ago, I wish to find a location where the hot spring water does not contain sulphur. Does anyone know which destination is suitable for me?

Many thanks!

There are a lot of spa without sulphur. I think only 10 or 20 percent spas include sulphur, it's my personal opinion. So you can find easily to ask ryokan if they have such spa. There are many good spa spots. Enjoy!

I'm not aware of a source of info which surveys lots of springs and tells you easily what the water composition is, but most ryokan sites will have a page which lists the minerals found in its spring(s), so you can do a search ryokan-by-ryokan, although this might take a bit of time.

Otherwise, for example, Kurokawa has a hot ryokan association (website easily found), and they have a phone number/email address, so perhaps you could send a query to them.

Other popular onsen towns often also have either a tourist office or a ryokan association, so you might be able to do the same for the other places you list.

Hope that helps...

Sorry - I meant to add that you will often find that one ryokan/one onsen town has more than one spring source, and that the water will be different from each spring source.

Thank you for the information!

Yes, I did find a website listing all the ryokans in the Kurokawa Onsen region, and I have started to look into each ryokan by going to the hotel homepage, but it seems that all of the homepages are written in Japanese......

Perhaps what I can do is to Google translate my question into Japanese and have it sent to the ryokan and Google translate the reply......

I frequent Yufuin onsen. The water is clear and has no sulfur smell. Also the ground water is not as high as other onsen places(i.e. Kusatsu).
My family will be staying again at Yawaraginosato Yadoya where there are 3 outdoor private time chartered baths(Kashikiri Roten, no extra charge)

I also agree to select Yufuin.
Yufuin is top rank hot spring in Kyusyu.
Also there are many Ryokan with private bath.
http://yufuin.or.jp/global/index.php?easiestml_lang=en
http://hotspringjapan.weebly.com/other-area.html