Iwanuma Onsen Miyagi
- Location
- Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 40 °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.
Iwanuma, a city on the Miyagi Prefecture coast south of Sendai, is noted for its strawberry farms and the Takedera Temple associated with the ancient Oku no Hosomichi travel diary of haiku master Matsuo Bashō, who passed through this Tohoku landscape in 1689. Iwanuma Onsen Miyagi provides chloride-rich thermal baths drawing on the geothermal resources of the Miyagi coastal plain, offering warm relaxation in an area that has seen remarkable regeneration following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The Iwanuma area is also celebrated for its scenic coastal pine forest along Sendai Bay, a landscape long honoured in Japanese poetry and painting.