Tonghe Hot Springs

Tonghe Hot Springs is a natural geothermal destination in Tonghe County in the Harbin metropolitan area of Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China — a region of extreme continental climate, famous for the world's largest ice and snow sculptures festival in Harbin and for a winter landscape of extraordinary severity and beauty. The bicarbonate mineral waters of Tonghe emerge from the deep geological strata of the Songliao Basin at comfortable therapeutic temperatures, providing an especially welcome source of warmth and relaxation in a province where outdoor temperatures can fall below -30°C in winter. The contrast between the deep cold of the Heilongjiang winter landscape and the warming immersion in geothermal mineral water creates one of the most viscerally memorable thermal bathing experiences in China. Tonghe Hot Springs is an authentic northeastern Chinese thermal destination, valued by local communities for the seasonal relief provided by its warm waters in one of the world's most climatically challenging environments.