Shingu Onsen Mie
- Location
- Shingu, Mie (Kumano region), Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 45 °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.
Shingu Onsen Mie is a natural hot spring in Kiho, a town on the southernmost coast of Mie Prefecture, Japan, at the boundary with Wakayama Prefecture along the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano Kodo pilgrimage coastline — one of Japan's most sacred ancient routes attracting walkers completing the full pilgrim circuit between the Grand Shrines of Ise and the Kumano Taisha shrine complex. The chloride-rich thermal waters emerge from the deep geological formations of the southern Kii Peninsula and are valued for their circulation-warming and fatigue-restoring properties, ideally suited to pilgrims completing the demanding mountain and coastal trail sections of the Kumano Kodo. Offering hot spring bathing in direct connection with one of the world's most spiritually significant UNESCO pilgrimage routes, Shingu Onsen Mie provides a profoundly restorative experience for body and soul.