Kure Onsen

Kure Onsen is located in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, a port city with one of Japan's most important naval and maritime heritage legacies, where the Yamato Museum honors the battleship Yamato — the world's largest battleship ever built, constructed at Kure Naval Arsenal — and the adjacent JMSDF Kure Museum presents an actual decommissioned submarine. The siliceous thermal waters here offer restorative bathing in a city where Japan's industrial and military history is preserved with remarkable depth and honesty, alongside a vibrant seafood culture centered on the city's Kure fish market. Bathing at Kure Onsen provides both physical renewal and a connection to the complex industrial and naval heritage of a city that continues to reinvent itself while honoring its extraordinary maritime history.