Tonghua Thermal Baths

Tonghua Thermal Baths are located in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, in the southeastern Jilin mountain region near the North Korean border, a city whose position in the Changbai Mountain volcanic system — home of Tianchi (Heaven Lake), China's most scenically famous crater lake and one of the world's deepest — places it at the heart of one of East Asia's most geologically dynamic and ecologically extraordinary landscapes. The bicarbonate-enriched thermal waters here reflect the geothermal activity of the Changbai volcanic system, which continues to produce hot springs, volcanic gases, and geothermal heat across the border region between China, North Korea, and the Korean cultural sphere that has revered Changbai Mountain (Baekdusan in Korean) as the sacred origin mountain of the Korean people for millennia. Bathing at Tonghua Thermal Baths provides a restorative experience in the shadow of one of East Asia's most sacred and geologically active volcanic systems, where the Changbai Mountain's continuing geothermal generosity provides naturally heated mineral waters for communities on both sides of the China-Korea border.