Moroyama Onsen
- Location
- Moroyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Moroyama Onsen is located in Moroyama Town, Saitama Prefecture, in the western Saitama uplands near the Musashino plateau edge where forested hills, small reservoirs, and the natural landscape of the outer Kanto highland region provide a greener and quieter environment than the urban zones of the Saitama interior. The siliceous thermal waters here serve a small residential community in the western Saitama foothills, providing mineral spring bathing in a rural-suburban transitional zone where the natural character of the Musashino landscape has been better preserved than in the more densely developed central Saitama plain. These onsen offer residents of western Saitama a locally accessible hot spring resource set within a more natural landscape, combining therapeutic mineral spring bathing with the gentle woodland scenery of the Saitama upland that serves as a green buffer between the Kanto plain and the mountains of the outer Tokyo metropolitan zone.