Tsuga Onsen Tochigi

Tsuga, in the southern Tochigi Prefecture along the Oya River approaches, is a small agricultural community in the broad southern Tochigi plain whose traditional farming landscape of rice paddies, daikon radish fields, and market gardening creates a quietly productive rural spa setting in the flat Kanto plain approaches north of Saitama Prefecture. Tsuga Onsen Tochigi draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geological resources of the southern Tochigi plain, offering restorative baths in a rural community whose proximity to Tochigi City's historic machiya townscape, the Oya stone quarry landscape, and the flat river cycling routes of the southern Tochigi lowlands create an accessible and unhurried spa setting. The Oya History Museum preserving the extraordinary underground quarry where Oya stone was extracted since the Edo period, the traditional Tochigi City earthen storehouses along the Uzuma River, and the cycling routes through the flat Kanto plain rice paddies create an appealing rural backdrop for thermal relaxation in southern Tochigi Prefecture.