Tsuchiura Onsen

Tsuchiura Onsen is located in Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the western shores of Lake Kasumigaura — Japan's second-largest lake at 168 square kilometers, a historic freshwater fishing lake whose catfish, carp, and whitebait have sustained traditional Kasumigaura fishing culture for centuries in a broad flatland landscape west of the Pacific coast. The siliceous thermal waters here complement a lakeside city whose traditional fishing culture, pleasure boat sailing on the vast lake, and the Japan National Fireworks Competition (Tsuchiura All-Japan Fireworks Competition) — one of Japan's three great fireworks festivals — create a distinctive summer festival and maritime leisure culture. Bathing at Tsuchiura Onsen after enjoying the extraordinary spectacle of Japan's premier fireworks display over Lake Kasumigaura provides one of the Kanto region's most memorable summer cultural and thermal wellness experiences, combining the therapeutic mineral spring tradition with the ephemeral beauty of Japanese pyrotechnic art.