Tateshina Onsen Grand
- Location
- Tateshina, Nagano (Chubu), Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 42 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Tateshina Onsen Grand is a mountain resort hot spring in the Tateshina highland area of Chino City, Nagano Prefecture, situated on the broad volcanic plateau between the Yatsugatake mountain range and Lake Suwa where the high-altitude terrain of open larch forests, mountain villas, and recreational facilities has been developed since the Meiji period into one of the most popular highland resort areas for Tokyo residents seeking summer escape from the heat of the Kanto plain. The Tateshina plateau offers diverse recreational opportunities including Shirakabako and Tateshina lakes, golf courses, horse riding, and hiking in the surrounding highland forests of larch (karamatsu) that produce one of Japan's most celebrated autumn foliage landscapes when the needles turn brilliant gold each October. The smooth bicarbonate thermal waters of Tateshina Onsen provide comfortable bathing in a highland resort setting that continues the tradition of mountain retreat established by Tokyo intellectuals and artists who built summer villas in these cool forests during the Meiji and Taisho cultural golden age.