Mie Tsu Onsen
- Location
- Tsu, Mie, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 43 °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.
Mie Tsu Onsen is a thermal bathing facility in Tsu, the prefectural capital of Mie Prefecture, Japan, a city known for having Japan's shortest place name and situated on the shore of Ise Bay — gateway to the sacred Ise Grand Shrine, Japan's holiest Shinto sanctuary visited by millions annually. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters tapped here are valued in Japanese wellness tradition for their deeply warming and circulatory-stimulating properties, offering urban residents of Mie's capital city easy access to genuine therapeutic hot spring bathing. With the spiritual atmosphere of nearby Ise permeating the region, soaking in Tsu's chloride onsen waters provides a harmonious blend of physical relaxation and the quiet spiritual resonance of Japan's most sacred Shinto heartland.