Hiratsuka Onsen Kanagawa
- Location
- Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 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.
Hiratsuka Onsen is a straightforward and welcoming hot spring facility in Hiratsuka city on the Shonan coast of Kanagawa Prefecture, a city known throughout Japan for its spectacular annual Tanabata Festival — one of the country's largest and most colorful star festival celebrations held each July. The chloride-rich mineral waters provide effective body warming and skin-nourishing benefits, offering a restorative experience in a city that combines a lively urban character with proximity to the beaches and cycling routes of the Shonan coastline. The onsen serves as a comfortable base for exploring the wider Shonan region's coastal attractions and the many historical sites of the southern Kanto Plain.