Maizuru Onsen Kyoto
- Location
- Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, 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.
Maizuru, a port city on the Sea of Japan coast of Kyoto Prefecture, served as Japan's primary naval base in the Sea of Japan during the prewar and wartime era, and its Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum movingly documents the painful history of Japanese prisoners returning from Siberian labour camps between 1945 and 1958. Maizuru Onsen Kyoto draws on chloride-rich marine thermal waters reflecting the city's deep connection to the sea, offering warming baths that soothe the body in Japan's northern maritime climate with its heavy winter snow and rolling grey sea swells off the Korean peninsula. The Red Brick Warehouse district, the historic naval port facilities, and the seasonal snow crab cuisine from the cold Sea of Japan complete a meaningful and atmospheric visit to this historic naval port spa destination on Kyoto's northern coast.