Kawakami Onsen

Kawakami Onsen is a hot spring facility in Kyōgoku town on the Shiribeshi subprefecture of Hokkaido, Japan, in the dairy farming landscape of the Oshima Peninsula hinterland where the hot spring culture of southern Hokkaido draws on the volcanic and hydrothermal legacy of the Mount Komagatake stratovolcano system that shapes the thermal geography of the entire peninsula between Hakodate Bay and the Uchiura Bay. Kyōgoku is particularly celebrated as the home of Japan's finest spring water — Kyōgoku's natural spring water drawn from the volcanic aquifer of the Yōtei volcano is widely regarded as some of the cleanest and sweetest water in Japan — and the town's mineral spring resources complement this water heritage with geothermal hot spring bathing that combines Hokkaido's volcanic geological richness with the clean cold water heritage of Japan's northern island. Kawakami Onsen provides mineral spring bathing in the pastoral Hokkaido landscape of dairy farms, potato fields, and the volcanic peaks of the Oshima Peninsula, contributing to the broader hot spring heritage of a landscape shaped by both volcanic heat and exceptional natural water resources.