Iwata Onsen Shizuoka
- Location
- Iwata, Shizuoka 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.
Iwata Onsen Shizuoka is a community hot spring facility in Iwata, a mid-sized city in the central coastal zone of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, an area known for its tea and mikan citrus cultivation, its Enshu Sea coastline, and its historical significance as part of the ancient Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo and Kyoto. The chloride-sodium thermal waters sourced here are characteristic of the Shizuoka coastal thermal zone and are valued for their skin-warming, muscle-relaxing properties suited to the active lifestyle of this energetic coastal community. Offering a relaxed and welcoming local bathing atmosphere, Iwata Onsen embodies the everyday therapeutic hot spring culture that makes communal bathing a vital part of life throughout Shizuoka Prefecture.