Yumezono Onsen

Yumezono Onsen—Dream Garden Spring—takes its name from the highest aspiration of Japanese garden design: the dream garden, an idealized landscape of rock, water, moss, and carefully considered natural beauty that exists as much in the imagination as in physical space—a garden whose perfection is achieved when human artistry and natural form are so seamlessly integrated that the result appears inevitable. Simple alkaline waters provide the gentle, skin-softening mineral soak that complements the garden aesthetic of the spring's name in Hyogo Prefecture, where the tradition of refined garden culture extends from the great temple gardens of Kyoto to the smaller, community-scale garden spaces of rural communities throughout the Kinki region. This dream garden spring invites bathers to understand thermal immersion as a participation in the Japanese aesthetic ideal of the perfectly composed natural space.