Okutateshina Onsen

Okutateshina Onsen—Inner Tateshina Spring—lies in the deep highland terrain behind the main Tateshina resort plateau in Nagano Prefecture, where the volcanic geological activity that produced Tateshina Mountain and its surrounding highland lakes creates sulfurous springs of exceptional quality in a landscape of birch forests, alpine meadows, and the elevated stillness characteristic of Nagano's most serene mountain resort areas. The Tateshina highland—home to the elegant Tateshina Lake resort and the Shirakabako (White Birch Lake) surrounded by its signature white birch forests—is one of Nagano's most refined and consistently beautiful highland plateaus, and the inner spring's sulfurous waters provide the volcanic thermal anchor for the aesthetic pleasures of the surrounding landscape. This inner Tateshina spring offers a more secluded, less developed alternative to the main plateau resort while sharing the same extraordinary volcanic geological heritage.