Mie Owase Onsen Kumano
- Location
- Owase, Mie (Kumano coast), 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.
Mie Owase Onsen Kumano is a therapeutic hot spring in Owase, a small but scenically dramatic port city on the southern Pacific coast of Mie Prefecture, Japan, situated at the northern end of the Kumano region — one of Japan's most sacred ancient pilgrimage landscapes along the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano Kodo trails. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters emerge from the deep geological formations of the Kii Peninsula, prized for their circulation-warming and fatigue-relieving properties particularly suited to recuperation after traversing the ancient forest pilgrimage routes winding through this profoundly spiritual landscape. Owase's extraordinary annual rainfall nourishes a subtropical forest canopy that makes the thermal bathing experience here exceptionally atmospheric and immersive.