Katsushika Onsen
- Location
- Katsushika, Tokyo, 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.
Katsushika Onsen provides siliceous mineral bathing in Katsushika Ward in northeastern Tokyo, whose most celebrated resident—the prolific ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), born and active in this ward—created the 36 Views of Mount Fuji (including the iconic 'Great Wave') that defined Japanese visual art for global audiences and whose legacy is celebrated in the Katsushika Hokusai Museum, making this ward one of Tokyo's foremost heritage destinations for admirers of Japan's greatest printmaker. The thermal waters provide accessible daily bathing in a ward whose shitamachi artisan and merchant culture of the Taisho and Showa eras—preserved in the Shibamata temple town with its Tora-san film location, Yagiri-no-Watashi ferry, and old sweetshop arcade—creates one of Tokyo's most cinematically preserved traditional neighborhood environments. The Hokusai artistic legacy, the Shibamata film heritage, and the warm mineral waters of Katsushika's community onsen bathe visitors in the deep cultural memory of Edo Tokyo.