Fukuyama Onsen
- Location
- Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Fukuyama Onsen is located in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, the prefecture's second-largest city, dominated by Fukuyama Castle — one of Japan's most beautiful "white castle" fortifications, remarkable for its northern wall fitted with iron plates to repel fire arrows in a unique defensive architectural innovation. The siliceous thermal waters here serve a major cultural city where the Rose Festival (one of Japan's largest rose events, with over one million rose plants) transforms the castle grounds into a fragrant floral landscape each May and June. Bathing at Fukuyama Onsen in the shadow of this magnificent white castle offers the classic Japanese juxtaposition of feudal architectural grandeur and mineral spring relaxation that defines the best of Japan's castle town hot spring destinations.