Mahora Ina Habiro Onsen

Mahora Ina Habiro Onsen—Magnificent Wide Open Ina Spring—takes its name from mahora (magnificent, awe-inspiring open space), ina (the Ina Valley of central Nagano Prefecture), and habiro (wide, broad), creating a name that celebrates the extraordinary spatial quality of the Ina Valley—one of Japan's longest and most scenically dramatic river valleys, stretching between the Southern Alps to the west and the Central Alps (Kiso Mountains) to the east, enclosed by two of Japan's most imposing mountain ranges in a valley of exceptional width and agricultural productivity. Simple alkaline waters provide the gentle mineral soak that complements the expansive, open-sky character of the Ina Valley landscape, where the rare combination of width, altitude, and double alpine enclosure creates one of Japan's most dramatically framed valley panoramas. This spring's magnificent open Ina Valley name captures the spatial grandeur of Nagano's most scenically expansive river corridor.