Atami Onsen Kinkairo

Atami Onsen Kinkairo is a historic ryokan in Atami City on the Izu Peninsula coast of Shizuoka Prefecture, one of Japan's most celebrated and historically storied hot spring resort cities whose abundant chloride thermal waters emerging at temperatures of up to 99 degrees Celsius have attracted millions of visitors since the Edo period when the shogunate designated the Atami spring water as a gift worthy of the shogun himself, establishing the city's prestige as Japan's most distinguished thermal destination of the early modern era. The city's MOA Museum of Art, perched on a forested hillside above Atami's coastal resort district, houses one of Japan's finest private collections of Japanese and Asian art including National Treasure paintings, ceramics, and lacquerware in a spectacular cliff-top architectural complex that counts among the most dramatically sited art museums in Japan. The powerful chloride springs of Atami, which give the city its name meaning Hot Sea, create a resort atmosphere of opulent thermal abundance where the combination of oceanfront Pacific scenery, world-class museum culture, fresh Sagami Bay seafood, and some of Japan's most naturally powerful and abundant hot spring waters make Kinkairo one of the most prestigious addresses in the storied Atami hot spring tradition.