Higashichichibu Onsen
- Location
- Higashichichibu, 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.
Higashichichibu Onsen is located in Higashichichibu Village, Saitama Prefecture, in the mountainous Chichibu region of western Saitama — part of the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park's outer zone, where the characteristic landscape of the Chichibu basin's forested ridgelines, tobacco fields, and traditional rural culture creates one of Saitama's most scenically distinctive and culturally authentic highland communities. The siliceous thermal waters here serve one of Saitama Prefecture's smallest and most rural communities — Higashichichibu is among Japan's smallest villages by population — where traditional Saitama mountain agricultural culture and the peaceful forested landscape of the outer Chichibu hills define a lifestyle far removed from the metropolitan density of the Tokyo-Saitama urban corridor. These onsen provide a rare and authentic rural bathing experience in a Saitama highland community that has preserved traditional Japanese mountain village character in one of the most untouched and genuinely countryside corners of the greater Tokyo metropolitan region.