Kisei Onsen Mihama Mie

Mihama, in the Kisei region of southern Mie Prefecture where the Kii Peninsula curves toward the Pacific, is a quiet rural community set amid the subtropical coastal forests and traditional fishing villages of the Kumano Sea coast, within the extended sacred landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano pilgrimage routes. Kisei Onsen Mihama Mie draws on chloride-rich coastal thermal waters from the marine geological formations of the southern Mie coast, providing warming maritime baths in a remote coastal community whose isolation has preserved both traditional fishing culture and the profound atmosphere of the ancient Kumano sacred landscape surrounding the spa. The Kumano Sea coastline with its dramatic rock formations and fishing villages, the ancient Kumano Kodo trail segments through the Mihama mountains, and the subtropical vegetation of the southernmost Kii Peninsula create a remote and atmospheric thermal destination on the Pacific coast of Mie Prefecture.