Chihpen Hot Springs

Chihpen Hot Springs is located in Beinan Township, Taitung County, in the Chihpen Valley of eastern Taiwan's Pacific coast — one of the island's most established and beloved hot spring resort districts, where clear sodium bicarbonate thermal waters flowing from the Central Mountain Range foothills through a scenic valley of Formosan ash trees have attracted visitors since the Japanese colonial period. The oligomineral sodium bicarbonate waters here are renowned for their smooth, skin-softening properties (known locally as "beauty water"), and the Chihpen hot spring district encompasses dozens of hotels, public bath facilities, and ryokan-style inns that have made this valley the eastern Taiwan equivalent of a classic Japanese onsen resort town. Bathing at Chihpen Hot Springs in the lush Taitung valley, where the sounds of the Chihpen River accompany the gentle mineral waters and the subtropical mountain greenery creates a serene natural spa atmosphere, offers one of Taiwan's most complete and historically layered hot spring experiences.