Nantan Onsen

Nantan Onsen is a community thermal spa in the city of Nantan in central Kyoto Prefecture, a rural inland city formed from the merger of several Tamba-region towns in the forested highlands between Kyoto and the Sea of Japan coast, where the slow-moving Yura River and the traditional thatched farmhouses of the Miyama district create a landscape of rare rural Kyoto authenticity. The mineral waters of this highland thermal facility draw from deep crystalline rock geology beneath the Tanba highlands, providing warm sodium-enriched immersion that serves the farming and forestry communities of the Kyoto uplands far from the tourist circuits of the ancient capital below. The Miyama Kayabuki-no-Sato thatched village, the Yura River fly-fishing, and the seasonal wildflower meadows of central Kyoto Prefecture give Nantan Onsen a quietly compelling natural and cultural context.