Shigama Onsen Shiogama
- Location
- Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 39 °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.
Shigama Onsen Shiogama is located in Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture, on the shores of Matsushima Bay — one of Japan's Three Views (Nihon Sankei), a landscape of over 260 pine-covered islands rising from calm coastal waters that has been venerated as a place of sublime natural beauty since the Heian period, celebrated by haiku master Matsuo Bashō in his masterpiece travel diary 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North.' The chloride-rich hot spring waters draw from the coastal geothermal resources of Shiogama's shoreline, with the saline mineral composition reflecting the mineral character of Matsushima Bay's protected coastal waters, valued for their warming and circulation-stimulating properties for this active fishing port community. Shiogama is Japan's leading port for fresh tuna offloading, and the combination of therapeutic coastal mineral bathing and access to some of Japan's freshest maguro tuna served at the Shiogama Fish Market sushi restaurants makes this one of Japan's most gastronomically and scenically extraordinary coastal hot spring destinations.