Kitaibaraki Onsen

Kitaibaraki Onsen is located in Kitaibaraki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, on the Pacific Ocean coast of northern Ibaraki near the Fukushima Prefecture border, a city known throughout Japan for Isohama — its scenic rocky Pacific coastline — and as the hometown of the great twentieth-century nihonga (Japanese-style painting) master Yokoyama Taikan, whose atmospheric landscapes of Mt. Fuji and the sea helped define Japanese modernist painting. The siliceous thermal waters here complement a coastal city of artistic heritage and Pacific maritime culture, where the rugged Isohama coastline, fresh seafood from the northern Pacific, and the legacy of one of Japan's greatest painters define a distinctive northern Ibaraki identity. Bathing at Kitaibaraki Onsen in the artistic and maritime landscape that inspired Yokoyama Taikan provides a culturally resonant mineral spring experience connecting visitors to the natural scenery that shaped one of twentieth-century Japan's most celebrated artistic visions.