Kita Karuizawa Onsen

Kita Karuizawa Onsen is located in Tsumagoi Village, Gunma Prefecture, in the highlands just north of the famous Karuizawa resort — a Victorian-era summer retreat established by foreign missionaries and still beloved by Tokyo's elite as Japan's premier mountain resort town — offering a quieter and more geothermally active alternative in the same Northern Kanto highland landscape. The siliceous thermal waters here benefit from the same high-altitude volcanic environment that makes the Tsumagoi area home to Manza Onsen, with clean mountain air and forested plateau scenery providing an immersive natural wellness setting away from Karuizawa's cosmopolitan crowds. This onsen offers visitors the distinctive pleasure of Karuizawa's mountain scenery and cultural cachet combined with authentic Japanese hot spring bathing traditions in the less-developed northern highlands of Gunma's premier resort region.