Gifu Yoro Onsen
- Location
- Yoro, Gifu, 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.
Yoro, in the southwestern Gifu Prefecture along the Ibi River at the foot of the Yoro Mountains, is celebrated throughout Japan for the ancient legend of the Yoro Waterfall — whose waters were said to have turned into sake that rejuvenated an old father when drunk by his filial son, inspiring Emperor Gensho to rename the era Yoro (Nourish the Old) in 717 AD — a story of filial piety so beloved it inspired the naming of Japan's oldest named historical period. Gifu Yoro Onsen draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the geothermal resources of the Yoro mountain zone, providing restorative baths in a community whose extraordinary sake-waterfall legend, the Yoro Waterfall Park where the ancient cascade still flows through the forested mountains, and the remarkable Insect World Museum of sculptor Nishitani Taro create a fascinatingly eccentric and legendarily distinctive spa destination. The Yoro Waterfall and its imperial legend from 717 AD, the extraordinary Insect World (Binataro) surrealist artistic installation at Yoro Park, and the Ibi River valley cycling paths through the southwestern Gifu agricultural landscape create an outstandingly eccentric and legendarily distinctive thermal spa destination in southwestern Gifu Prefecture.