Sagae Onsen
- Location
- Sagae, Yamagata, Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Sagae Onsen is found in Sagae City in central Yamagata Prefecture, long regarded as the epicenter of Sato Nishiki cherry cultivation, the premium early-summer variety created here in the 1920s by crossing Napoleonic and Yellow Napoleonic cherries and now Yamagata's most iconic agricultural product. The city's cherry orchards cover the hillsides above the Mogami River basin, and the annual harvest festival draws visitors from across Japan who come to pick and taste the sweet, glistening fruit directly from the trees. The clean thermal waters here offer the perfect relaxation after orchard visits in a city whose identity is inseparable from Japan's finest cherry tradition.