Oyodo Onsen Nara
- Location
- Oyodo, Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Oyodo, in the southern Nara Prefecture along the Yoshino River, is a small community set at the gateway to the Yoshino mountain valley whose legendary cherry blossom landscape — thousands of yamabuki cherry trees on the mountainside creating one of Japan's most celebrated spring views — draws visitors to the greater Yoshino area each April in one of Japan's most magnificent seasonal spectacles. Oyodo Onsen Nara draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geological resources of the Yoshino River valley, providing restorative baths in a gateway community to the Yoshino cherry blossom mountain where the Kinpusen-ji Temple at the Yoshino peak, the annual spring pilgrimage culture, and the traditional kudzu-root starch cuisine of the Yoshino valley create an exceptionally seasonally vibrant spa destination. The Yoshino mountain cherry blossom landscape in April, the ancient En no Gyoja mountain ascetic pilgrimage culture of the Yoshino-Omine sacred mountain range, and the traditional Yoshino cedar forest management that has supplied Japan's finest structural timber for centuries make the Oyodo valley gateway an outstandingly rich natural and cultural spa destination.