Asakuchi Onsen

Asakuchi Onsen is located in Asakuchi City, Okayama Prefecture, on the Seto Inland Sea shore of Okayama at the Kasaoka Bay zone, an area of gentle coastal scenery where the agricultural Okayama plain meets the calm waters of the Inland Sea amid salt flats and reclaimed agricultural land that characterize this productive coastal lowland. The siliceous thermal waters here serve a coastal agricultural city whose position between the Okayama plain's extensive rice fields and peach orchards — Okayama is Japan's leading white peach producer — and the Inland Sea's fishing culture creates a productive and pleasant coastal landscape typical of central Okayama's southern shore. These onsen provide warm mineral spring bathing in a setting where the prosperity of Okayama's famous agricultural heritage and the calm beauty of the Seto Inland Sea coastline define the everyday landscape of this productive Japanese coastal community.