Kumihama Seaside Onsen

Kumihama Seaside Onsen occupies a coastal setting in Kumihama Town, Kyotango City, northern Kyoto Prefecture along the Japan Sea coast, and is carefully distinguished from the nearby Kumi no Hama Onsen with which it shares a similar name and general vicinity — the two springs lie approximately five kilometers apart in straight-line distance and do not constitute a shared onsen-kyo cluster. The spring's seaside location on the Tango Peninsula, where rugged Japan Sea coastline meets the cultural heritage of the ancient Tango province, gives it a distinctive atmosphere combining ocean breezes and coastal scenery with the inland comfort of naturally heated geothermal mineral water. Kumihama Seaside Onsen offers visitors the rare pleasure of thermal bathing in proximity to the open sea, a combination that captures the dual natural character of a coastal region defined equally by its relationship with the ocean and with the volcanic earth beneath.