Furusato Onsen Yamagata
- Location
- Yamagata, 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.
Furusato Onsen in Yamagata City sits at the heart of Yamagata Prefecture's capital, a bustling city best known for the Hanagasa Matsuri, one of Tohoku's great summer dances in which thousands of performers wearing flower-decorated straw hats parade through the city center in a swirling, joyful procession. Yamagata City is also famous for the Imoni-kai, a beloved autumn riverside gathering where enormous iron cauldrons of taro potato stew are shared communally along the Mogami riverbank, and it serves as the primary gateway to the Zao volcanic plateau with its famous juhyo ice-tree phenomenon. The mild calcium-sulfate waters here invite guests to rest and recover in the energetic capital of one of Tohoku's most culturally rich prefectures.