Kikugawa Onsen Shizuoka
- Location
- Kikugawa, 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.
Kikugawa Onsen Shizuoka is a natural hot spring facility in Kikugawa, a small but prosperous agricultural city in southern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, situated in a productive farming plain known for its high-quality green tea, strawberries, and the Kikugawa River flowing to Suruga Bay. The chloride-sodium spring waters here, emerging at comfortably warm temperatures, are valued in Japanese wellness tradition for their circulation-improving properties and the characteristic skin-softening effect that saline thermal waters provide. Set in the gentle countryside of southeastern Shizuoka, Kikugawa Onsen offers a genuinely local and unpretentious thermal bathing experience that reflects the authentic communal hot spring culture of this fertile coastal agricultural region.