Kakuda Onsen Miyagi
- Location
- Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 41 °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.
Kakuda Onsen Miyagi is a natural hot spring in Kakuda, a small city in the inland southeastern corner of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, historically known as the 'little Kyoto of Miyagi' for its traditionally cultured townscape and sake-brewing heritage, and today maintaining a distinctive identity as a food-production and aerospace research community — home to JAXA's Kakuda Space Center, Japan's principal rocket engine test facility where Japan's H-II rocket engines were developed. The naturally chloride-sodium spring waters here provide a warming, saline mineral soak valued for circulation improvement and skin nourishment, offering both the city's aerospace researchers and visitors exploring Miyagi's southern interior a genuine therapeutic hot spring experience. The unusual coexistence of historic sake-brewing culture, cutting-edge JAXA space rocket research, and the age-old Japanese tradition of communal chloride hot spring bathing gives Kakuda Onsen a uniquely contrasting character among Miyagi's thermal destinations.