Kinosaki Onsen Mandai
- Location
- Kinosaki, Toyooka, Hyogo, Kansai, 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.
Kinosaki Onsen Mandai is one of the celebrated ryokan establishments in Kinosaki Onsen, a historic hot spring town in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, considered one of the most authentically preserved onsen towns in all of Japan, where the tradition of strolling between seven public bathhouses in yukata robes and geta wooden sandals has been the defining cultural ritual for over 1,300 years. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters of Kinosaki are renowned for leaving skin beautifully soft and luminous — a quality celebrated in Japanese literature since Shiga Naoya's famous short story 'At Kinosaki' (1917) written while the author convalesced there after a near-fatal accident. Kinosaki's unique combination of seven distinct historic bathhouses, a perfectly preserved Meiji and Taisho era streetscape of willow trees and wooden inns, and nationally acclaimed chloride healing waters makes it one of Japan's most complete and atmospheric onsen town experiences.