Wajima Onsen

Wajima Onsen is a thermal facility in Wajima city on the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, one of Japan's most culturally distinctive maritime landscapes — a rugged, rice-terraced, fishing-village coastline designated as a UNESCO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System for its satoyama and satoumi cultural landscape maintained by local communities for generations. Wajima is Japan's center for lacquerware art, where the Wajima-nuri lacquer technique has been refined over 1,000 years into one of Japan's most revered craft traditions, and the city's morning market is among Japan's most celebrated traditional markets. The siliceous thermal waters of Wajima Onsen, enjoyed amid the extraordinary cultural landscape of the Noto Peninsula, provide a restorative thermal experience at the heart of one of Japan's most beautifully preserved traditional coastal communities.