Akitakata Onsen
- Location
- Akitakata, 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.
Akitakata Onsen is located in Akitakata City, Hiroshima Prefecture, in the Chugoku Mountain highlands where traditional arts of Kagura (sacred Shinto theatrical dance) performed at local festivals maintain the region's deep cultural heritage alongside the forested valleys of the Eda River. The siliceous thermal waters here serve a rural highland community where the Hiroshima Kagura tradition — elaborate all-night Shinto dance performances based on Japanese mythology — represents one of the prefecture's most vibrant and distinctive performing arts cultures. Bathing at Akitakata Onsen provides immersion in the Chugoku highlands' natural beauty and traditional culture, far from the urban tourism infrastructure of the Hiroshima coast.