Tanba Onsen Hyogo

Tamba, in the forested highlands of central Hyogo Prefecture, is one of Japan's most celebrated rural regions for traditional foods and crafts, its Tamba black soybean, Tamba matsutake mushroom, Tamba black chicken, and ancient Tamba Tachikui ceramic ware making the name Tamba synonymous with Japanese artisanal food and pottery quality across the country. Tanba Onsen Hyogo draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geothermal resources of the Tamba basin, offering relaxing baths in an agricultural highland setting surrounded by the extraordinary food heritage of one of Japan's most celebrated rural terroir landscapes prized by Kyoto's finest kaiseki restaurants. The Tamba Tachikui pottery village with its ancient six great kilns of Japan heritage, the black soybean autumn harvest, the Tamba Sasayama historic castle town, and the forested mountain scenery of the Nishiki River valley create a richly rewarding cultural and thermal destination in the Hyogo highlands.