Miyama Kayabuki Onsen
- Location
- Miyama, Nantan, Kyoto, Kansai, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 40 °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.
Miyama Kayabuki Onsen is a hot spring in Nantan, a rural city in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, situated near the celebrated Miyama Kayabuki-no-Sato — a UNESCO-candidate preserved village of traditional Japanese thatched-roof farmhouses (kayabuki) that represents one of the finest surviving examples of rural Edo-period domestic architecture in the entire Kinki region. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters here are valued for their warming and skin-softening properties, providing a deeply restorative soak perfectly suited to the pace and atmosphere of this exceptionally well-preserved traditional Japanese farming community. Combining the architectural and cultural treasure of one of Japan's most beautiful traditional villages, the forested mountain scenery of the Nantan highlands, and the everyday warmth of authentic local onsen bathing, Miyama Kayabuki Onsen offers a profoundly Japanese and unhurried thermal experience.