Rokkasho Onsen Aomori

Rokkasho, in the northeastern Aomori Prefecture on the Shimokita Peninsula approaches facing the Pacific Ocean, is home to Japan's controversial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility — the largest nuclear reprocessing plant outside of France and the UK — which has made this remote Aomori farming and fishing community the centre of Japan's most significant nuclear energy policy debates since construction began in the 1980s. Rokkasho Onsen Aomori draws on chloride-rich thermal waters from the geological resources of the eastern Aomori coastal plain, offering warm restorative baths in a community whose extraordinary nuclear energy policy significance, traditional Aomori farming culture, and the remote Pacific coast scenery of the Mutsu Bay approaches create an unusually layered and thought-provoking spa setting in northeastern Aomori. The Rokkasho nuclear fuel cycle facility and its policy significance, the traditional Aomori agricultural landscape of nagaimo yam and garlic cultivation, and the Pacific coastal scenery of the Rokkasho cape overlooking the outer approaches to Mutsu Bay create a complex and historically significant spa destination in the northeastern Aomori coastal zone.