Chuo Onsen Yamanashi

Chuo, in the southern Kofu basin of Yamanashi Prefecture, is a small agricultural city set between the renowned Koshu wine vineyards and the Otsuki mountain pass gateway to the Fuji region, in a landscape of terraced peach orchards and grape trellises that produce some of Yamanashi's finest table fruit and Koshu white wine. Chuo Onsen Yamanashi draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geothermal resources of the southern Kofu basin, offering warm restorative baths in an agricultural community where Yamanashi's exceptional fruit production creates a distinctively fragrant seasonal backdrop for thermal wellness throughout the harvest seasons. The spectacular April peach blossom season that turns the Kofu basin pink and white in one of the most extraordinary agricultural flower displays in all of Japan, the nearby Kai Zenkoji Temple, and direct access to the Fuji region via national highway make Chuo an appealingly bucolic spa destination in central Yamanashi.