Yabuzuka Onsen
- Location
- Tatte, Gunma, 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.
Yabuzuka Onsen rises in Gunma Prefecture, where the name—Bamboo Thicket Hill—evokes the dense stands of bamboo that characterize the lower mountain slopes of central Japan, creating green, light-filtered corridors through the landscape that have long been associated with tranquility and natural purity in Japanese aesthetic and garden design tradition. Gunma is one of Japan's most thermally active prefectures, home to some of the country's most celebrated onsens including Kusatsu and Ikaho, and Yabuzuka's spring draws from the volcanic geological wealth that underlies this mountain-ringed landlocked prefecture where thermal bathing has been central to daily life for centuries. The bamboo grove atmosphere gives this spring a quietly contemplative character in keeping with the meditative dimensions of Japanese bathing culture and the bamboo's traditional association with resilience and natural beauty.