Taiwan now has a rival to Japan’s Arima Onsen with Jinshan’s own ‘Golden Pool’
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/24
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan now has a rival to the famous Japanese hot spring
Golden hot springs. (New Taipei City Government)
Arima Onsen’s “Golden Pool” with its newly revamped hot spring in New Taipei City’s Jinshan (金山), which itself means “Golden Mountain,” announced the New Taipei City Government on Wednesday.
After an improvement project was carried out on the Huanggang Community public hot springs, a miraculous thing happened, the water started turning a golden hue. Hot spring experts say that the reason why the water, which is colorless when it first comes out, changes color to become the “Golden Pool” or “Golden Spring” is due to the oxidation of the iron and salt in the water.
The Jinshan District Chief Chen Kuo-chin (陳國欽) said that after the community hot springs underwent an improvement project in June, the water starting turning brown, and members of the public mistook it for mud and were afraid to soak in it.
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