Omitama Onsen Ibaraki

Omitama, in central Ibaraki Prefecture on the Kanto Plain, is an agricultural city set amid the broad open farmlands of the Ibaraki interior where lotus root, sweet potato, and rice cultivation define the rural character of this Kanto agricultural heartland between the Tone and Naka rivers. Omitama Onsen Ibaraki draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the deep sedimentary geological formations of the north Kanto aquifer, providing warm therapeutic baths for local residents in a pleasantly unhurried agricultural community removed from the suburban pressures of the greater Tokyo zone. The flat cycling countryside of Omitama's surrounding farm districts, the nearby Kasumigaura lake shore — the second-largest lake in Japan — and the distinctive Ibaraki agricultural market culture of seasonal vegetable and flower festivals create a quietly rewarding natural backdrop for thermal bathing in this central Ibaraki farming community.