Miyako Jodogahama Onsen
- Location
- Miyako, Iwate, 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.
Miyako Jodogahama Onsen is set in Miyako City on the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture, the gateway to Jodogahama Beach, one of the most celebrated scenic coastlines in the Sanriku Fukko National Park where dramatic white rhyolite sea stacks and islets rise from deep blue water in a configuration of such striking beauty that Buddhist monks named it Jodogahama, meaning Pure Land Beach, as if the landscape itself were a paradise vision made terrestrial. The Sanriku Rias Coast is among Japan's most dramatically scenic Pacific shorelines, where deep fjord-like inlets, rocky headlands, and offshore reefs create extraordinary marine biodiversity that supports one of Japan's richest fisheries for abalone, sea urchin, kelp, and salmon. The coastal thermal waters here warm visitors who come to experience the extraordinary natural landscape of the Miyako coast, where sea, rock, and sky combine in compositions of geological drama that have inspired painters and poets for centuries.