Nantan Onsen Kyoto
- Location
- Nantan, 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.
Nantan, in the Tamba highlands of northern Kyoto Prefecture, is a rural city of forested mountains, terraced rice paddies, and charming kominka farmhouses that preserves a way of life increasingly rare in the Japanese countryside, attracting visitors seeking authentic satoyama landscape and slow rural experiences. Nantan Onsen Kyoto draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geothermal resources of the Tamba mountain zone, offering relaxing baths in a deeply rural Kyoto setting celebrated for Tamba's prized black beans, chestnuts, and the autumnal matsutake mushroom harvest that commands extraordinary prices in Kyoto's finest kaiseki restaurants. The heritage silk weaving workshops, traditional indigo dyeing studios, and forested hiking trails of the Nantan area make it a rewarding destination for travellers seeking an unhurried and authentic Kyoto spa experience.