Yuda Onsen Yamaguchi Fugu
- Location
- Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 39 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Yuda Onsen in Yamaguchi city draws chloride-bicarbonate waters legendarily discovered when a white heron soothed its injured leg in the spring — a founding myth shared by several famous Japanese onsen that anthropomorphizes the restorative reputation of mineral water through the wisdom of birds. The mild, skin-smoothing waters have been associated with Chōshū domain political culture, and the Meiji Restoration's leading figures — including Takasugi Shinsaku who launched the modern Japanese military — regularly visited Yuda during the revolutionary 1860s. The nearby Rurikoji Temple's five-tiered pagoda, considered one of Japan's three most beautiful pagodas, and the extraordinary fugu (puffer fish) cuisine of Yamaguchi city create a thermal destination of cultural refinement unique in western Japan.