Gotsu Onsen
- Location
- Gotsu, Shimane 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.
Gotsu Onsen is located in Gotsu City, Shimane Prefecture, a coastal city on the San'in Coast where the Gonokawa River — Shimane's largest river — meets the Sea of Japan, creating an estuarine landscape rich in marine and freshwater biodiversity. The siliceous thermal waters here serve a fishing and timber port community whose traditional industries of cedar logging and seafood have shaped the local culture for generations along this remote western Japanese coastline. Bathing at Gotsu Onsen offers visitors a genuinely local San'in experience, far from tourist routes, where the therapeutic mineral spring traditions of Shimane are enjoyed in the unhurried atmosphere of a working harbor town.