Maruia Springs

Maruia Springs is a natural geothermal hot spring resort at Maruia in the Buller District of New Zealand's West Coast, where sulfurous spring waters feed the pools of a Japanese-styled thermal lodge at the base of the Lewis Pass in the Southern Alps, one of the key transalpine routes connecting the South Island's Nelson and Canterbury regions. The resort, designed with Japanese onsen aesthetics reflecting both the cultural heritage of its original developers and the deep natural affinity between Japanese bathing culture and the New Zealand wilderness thermal experience, offers private and communal outdoor and indoor pools surrounded by native silver beech forest beside the Maruia River. The alpine setting at Lewis Pass — one of the South Island's most scenically dramatic mountain crossings — combined with the sulfurous mineral water and the Japanese design ethos creates a uniquely bicultural thermal experience in the heart of the Southern Alps wilderness.