Noda Onsen Chiba

Noda, on the Tone River in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, is celebrated throughout Japan as the home of Kikkoman soy sauce — the globally distributed Japanese soy sauce brand whose founder's family began brewing in Noda in the eighteenth century and whose traditional wooden fermentation barrels and soy sauce museums make the city a fascinating destination for food culture enthusiasts. Noda Onsen Chiba draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geological resources of the northwestern Chiba plain, offering restorative baths in a city whose extraordinary soy sauce heritage, the Kikkoman factory tours and Soy Sauce Museum, and the traditional Tone River boating culture create an appealingly food-centred and historically layered spa destination. The Kikkoman Soy Sauce Museum and factory visits, the traditional Tone River fishing culture of the Noda waterway area, and the exceptional soy sauce-flavoured local cuisine ranging from traditional senbei rice crackers to contemporary gourmet applications create a uniquely flavourful and industrially fascinating thermal spa destination in northwestern Chiba Prefecture.