Ajimu Onsen Winespa

Ajimu Onsen Winespa is a distinctive wellness facility combining hot spring bathing with wine therapy in the Ajimu wine district of Usa City, Oita Prefecture, one of Japan's most established domestic wine-producing regions where the gentle hills of the Ajimu basin have been cultivated with European grape varieties since the 1970s to produce Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet wines that have earned recognition in international competitions and established Ajimu as a pioneering center of Japanese fine wine culture in the unlikely setting of northern Kyushu. The Usa area is also home to the Usa Shrine, one of the most important Hachiман (god of war and archery) shrines in Japan, second in significance only to the imperial Tsurugaoka Hachiманgū in Kamakura, whose ancient pilgrimage tradition and elaborate festival ceremonies have drawn worshippers to this northern Oita site for over 1,300 years. The sodium-bicarbonate thermal spring waters of Winespa are creatively combined with wine-based body treatments and wine-infused soaking additives in a wellness concept that celebrates both Ajimu's geothermal heritage and its pioneering role in bringing European viticulture to the volcanic soils of Oita Prefecture.