Ukiha Onsen Fukuoka
- Location
- Ukiha, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Ukiha Onsen Fukuoka is located in Ukiha City, Fukuoka Prefecture, in the eastern Chikugo Plain between the Chikugo River and the wooded Mino Mountains — a city nationally celebrated for its spectacular terraced rice paddies recognised as one of Japan's most beautiful rural landscapes, and for the historic white-walled merchant houses of Yoshii Town that formed a prosperous commercial district on the Chikugo River trading routes. The chloride-rich hot spring waters draw from the thermal resources beneath the Chikugo alluvial plain, offering warm mineral baths that reflect the geological depth of a river basin that has supported human cultivation for over 2,000 years. Ukiha's unique combination of mountainside terraced paddies, Edo-period merchant architecture, and the warming mineral waters of its community onsen makes it one of Fukuoka Prefecture's most photographically and culturally distinctive rural destinations.