Ugata Onsen Mie
- Location
- Matsusaka, Mie, 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.
Ugata Onsen Mie is a community hot spring in Kameyama, a historic post town in the inland western portion of Mie Prefecture, Japan, situated along the ancient Tōkaidō highway route where Kameyama Castle served generations of travelers and daimyo lords during the Edo period. The chloride-sodium thermal waters are valued for their characteristic saline mineral composition that warms the body deeply and improves circulation, offering local residents and travelers along the Mie inland route a genuine restorative bathing experience. In a region often overshadowed by the coastal splendors of Ise and Kumano, Ugata Onsen provides an authentic glimpse of the everyday thermal bathing culture that defines wellness life in rural inland Mie Prefecture.