Aichi Tokai Onsen

Tokai, in the western Aichi Prefecture on the Ise Bay coast, is the location of the Chukyo Nuclear Power Plant and a significant industrial port community in the greater Nagoya Bay industrial corridor where the Chukyo industrial zone's chemical and heavy industries have shaped the coastal landscape of the western Aichi bay shore since the high-growth period of the 1960s. Aichi Tokai Onsen draws on chloride-rich coastal thermal waters from the marine geological formations of the western Ise Bay coastline, providing warming maritime baths in an industrial coastal community whose energy infrastructure heritage, the traditional Chita Peninsula fishing culture accessible nearby, and the Ise Bay coastal scenery create an industrial-maritime spa setting in western Aichi Prefecture. The Ise Bay coastal cycling path, the traditional fishing heritage of the greater Chita Peninsula coastline accessible from the Tokai area, and the easy Nagoya Railway and JR access to central Nagoya and the Chita Peninsula resort towns make Tokai a practically positioned coastal spa destination in the industrial western Aichi bay corridor.