Kono Onsen
- Location
- Nita, Shimane, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Kono Onsen is a Japanese-style geothermal hot spring facility whose name carries the warm, personal resonance of a spring named after a person or place with familial associations in the Japanese hot spring naming tradition. Japan's onsen culture encompasses thousands of named springs across the archipelago's volcanically active islands, each with its own mineral character, temperature, and therapeutic reputation built up over centuries of community bathing. Kono Onsen provides naturally geothermally heated, mineralised spring water in the authentic Japanese onsen tradition of therapeutic soaking, relaxation, and communal bathing that has defined Japanese wellness culture since the earliest recorded history.