Shizuoka Omaezaki Onsen

Omaezaki, at the southernmost tip of the Shizuoka Prefecture coast where the Enshunada Sea meets Suruga Bay, is the windiest coastal location in Japan — its cape position exposed to the Pacific winds creates some of the most reliable and powerful wind conditions on the Japanese coast — while the Omaezaki Lighthouse, one of Japan's oldest stone lighthouses built in 1874, has guided Pacific shipping through this exposed headland for over a century. Shizuoka Omaezaki Onsen draws on chloride-rich coastal thermal waters from the marine geological formations of the Omaezaki Peninsula tip, offering warming maritime baths in a dramatically windswept cape community whose lighthouse heritage, Pacific coast fishing culture, and the Sakura Ebi cherry shrimp fishery — the seasonal fishery of tiny transparent pink shrimp caught only in the Suruga Bay and served fresh in Omaezaki — create a uniquely atmospheric and gastronomically distinctive spa setting. The Omaezaki Lighthouse historic site, the seasonal Sakura Ebi cherry shrimp fishing season each spring and autumn, and the dramatic Pacific cape views from the Omaezaki headland toward both the Izu Peninsula and Kii Peninsula create an outstandingly scenic and culinarily distinctive coastal spa destination at the southern tip of Shizuoka Prefecture.