Murakami Onsen Niigata
- Location
- Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Murakami Onsen Niigata is a therapeutic hot spring in Murakami, the northernmost city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, renowned throughout Japan as the nation's northernmost tea-producing city — where Murakami tea cultivation has thrived since the Edo period despite the snow-country climate — and celebrated for its exceptional salmon culture, with dried salmon hanging from the eaves of Murakami's merchant houses as a distinctive autumnal tradition. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters here provide a warming, saline mineral soak characteristic of Niigata's coastal thermal zone, valued for their skin-softening and circulation-improving properties particularly welcome in Murakami's cold snow-country winters. Combining the cultural uniqueness of Japan's northernmost tea city, the celebrated Murakami salmon tradition, and the restorative warmth of natural saline hot spring bathing, Murakami Onsen offers a distinctly flavored and culturally rich Niigata thermal experience.