Hirugano Onsen
- Location
- Gujo, Gifu, Japan
- Water type
- silica
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 6.7
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Hirugano Onsen in Gujo city, Gifu Prefecture, sits at 900 metres elevation on the Hirugano Kogen plateau, a high grassland plateau in the mountains of Oku-Mino that serves as one of the Chubu region's premier skiing destinations in winter and a cool mountain resort for urban refugees from the heat of the Nagoya basin in summer. The siliceous spring water provides mineral baths that warm visitors numbed by the plateau's crisp mountain air, in facilities that blend seamlessly with the ski lodge and highland pastoral atmosphere of one of Gifu's most scenically positioned onsen destinations. The plateau's wildflower meadows in summer, ski slopes in winter, and the clear mountain streams descending through the surrounding Shokawa river valley create a four-season natural appeal that makes Hirugano's thermal offering an accessible complement to outdoor leisure in these beautiful Chubu highlands.