Azuki Onsen

Azuki Onsen—Red Bean Spring—takes its name from the azuki red bean, one of the most nutritionally and culturally significant foods in Japanese cooking, used across countless ceremonial and everyday confections from wagashi (sweet bean paste) to the red rice served at celebratory occasions. Simple alkaline waters provide the gentle, comforting mineral soak that the red bean name analogizes to the nourishing, sustaining quality of azuki in the Japanese dietary tradition—a spring whose waters welcome the body as the red bean nourishes the community. Rising in Fukushima Prefecture, this spring connects thermal bathing to the rich agricultural and culinary heritage of a region whose mountain soils produce some of Japan's most valued traditional food crops.