Nanao Onsen Ishikawa
- Location
- Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Nanao, on the eastern coast of the Noto Peninsula bordering the sheltered Nanao Bay, is the main commercial and cultural centre of the Noto Peninsula, its historic port town character shaped by centuries of maritime trade with the Asian continent via the Sea of Japan routes that once made the Noto coast one of the most commercially significant in northern Japan. Nanao Onsen Ishikawa draws on chloride-rich thermal waters from the marine geological formations of the Nanao Bay coastline, offering warming coastal baths in the peninsula's main town where the traditional lacquerware, silk weaving, and Kenroku-en garden design heritage of the greater Kaga-Noto cultural zone creates an outstanding backdrop for thermal wellness. The Nanao City Museum's Noto folk art collections, the spectacular Ogi Festival floats maintained for generations in the traditional Noto festival culture, and the fresh Noto yellowtail (Noto buri) and Nanao Bay oysters regarded among Japan's finest winter seafood make Nanao an appealing spa destination at the heart of the Noto Peninsula.