Minami Dogo Onsen
- Location
- Matsuyama, Ehime, 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.
Minami Dogo Onsen is a hot spring in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku Island, located south of the celebrated Dogo Onsen, Japan's oldest hot spring complex that has been in continuous operation for over a thousand years and is believed to have been visited by the legendary Prince Shotoku and the literary heroes of the Manyoshu poetry anthology. The Dogo area of Matsuyama is one of Japan's most revered hot spring districts, and Minami Dogo Onsen provides an additional bathing option within this thermally active city whose modern reputation was shaped by the novelist Soseki Natsume, who was inspired by the Dogo Onsen bathhouse in writing Botchan, one of the most beloved novels in Japanese literature. The simple mineral waters of Minami Dogo Onsen offer therapeutic bathing to the many visitors drawn to Matsuyama's exceptional combination of ancient thermal heritage, literary associations, and the magnificent Matsuyama Castle overlooking the city.