Mooka Igashira Onsen
- Location
- Moka, Tochigi, 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.
Mooka Igashira Onsen, nicknamed 'Ichigo no Yu' — Strawberry Hot Spring — is a municipal health promotion facility in the city of Moka in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, adjacent to the beautiful Igashira Park and drawing its popular name from Moka's renowned strawberry cultivation, as Tochigi prefecture is Japan's largest strawberry-producing region and Moca's Igashira Onsen combines the city's warm mineral spring tradition with the sweet agricultural identity that makes Tochigi strawberries — particularly the Tochiotome and Skyberry varieties — among Japan's most celebrated luxury fruits. The facility offers simple mineral spring waters in both the indoor bathing complex and a residential accommodations component, serving as a community wellness facility that integrates the local onsen tradition with Moca's identity as a center of strawberry cultivation, traditional hand-woven Moca cotton textiles, and the Mooka Railway steam locomotive that operates on the Mooka Line — one of Japan's best-preserved heritage steam railways. The ichigo-themed hot spring facility embodies the creative Japanese approach to local identity branding in the onsen tourism sector.