Ise Onsen Futamigaura

Ise, in Mie Prefecture, is home to the Ise Grand Shrine, the most sacred Shinto site in Japan, dedicated to Amaterasu the sun goddess and divine ancestor of the imperial family, and is the destination of Japan's most important pilgrimage tradition drawing millions of worshippers since ancient times. Ise Onsen Futamigaura draws on chloride-rich thermal waters near the famous Futamigaura coast where the sacred married rocks Meotoiwa emerge from the sea joined by a sacred rope, offering baths imbued with the profound spiritual atmosphere of Japan's most venerated pilgrimage landscape. The ancient Okage Yokocho alley with its traditional Ise foods, the Futami Okitama Shrine's frog guardian figures at the water's edge, and the morning light over Ise Bay create an extraordinarily sacred and scenic thermal destination at the heart of Japanese spiritual culture.