Tashiro Onsen Yuppura
- Location
- Ōdate, Akita, 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.
Tashiro Onsen Yuppura is a traditional Japanese hot spring facility drawing on the geothermal resources of a rural highland area, providing naturally heated mineral waters in a setting of mountain scenery and village tranquility characteristic of Japan's most treasured inner-mountain onsen regions. The name 'Yuppura' playfully combines 'yu' (hot water) with an expressive suffix suggesting warmth, steam, and cheerful informality — qualities that make this community bathhouse a beloved gathering place for local residents seeking daily restoration and for travelers escaping the pressures of city life into the quiet of a rural mountain bath. The mineral content of Tashiro's volcanic subsoil waters invites relaxation and the softness it leaves on the skin, offering the genuine restful depth expected of a tennen (natural) hot spring in one of Japan's most geothermally rich and scenically rewarding highland landscapes.