Aizuwakamatsu Higashiyama Onsen Tsurugajo
- Location
- Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, 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.
Aizuwakamatsu Higashiyama Onsen Tsurugajo is the premier hot spring retreat serving Aizuwakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture, the heart of the historic Aizu Domain whose story of the Boshin War — particularly the tragic Byakkotai, the teenage samurai unit who committed ritual suicide on Iimori Hill believing their castle had fallen — has made this city one of Japan's most emotionally resonant historical destinations, a pilgrimage site for those drawn to the samurai ethos of loyalty and self-sacrifice in the face of inevitable defeat. Tsurugajo, the Crane Castle whose white-walled towers rise above the city, has been restored to its Edo-period splendor and is renowned for its spectacular cherry blossom season when the castle walls emerge from a sea of pink blossoms in one of Tohoku's most celebrated spring landscapes. The Higashiyama Onsen resort valley adjacent to the city offers the full range of traditional ryokan hospitality alongside sodium-bicarbonate thermal waters in a mountain valley setting that has provided relief and pleasure to Aizu's samurai, merchants, and pilgrims for over four centuries.