Busan/South Korea
Hurshimchung, Dongnae Hot Springs
One of Asia's largest hot spring bathhouses, in Busan's ancient spa quarter.
Abasaa
- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1991
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
Hurshimchung occupies a vast hall in Dongnae, the hot spring quarter of Busan, with dozens of pools under a high glass roof: hot and cold basins, jet baths, herbal and mugwort pools, waterfall showers and outdoor tubs, alongside kiln saunas. The mineral water is drawn from the Dongnae springs beneath the district.
Balnevia view
Why visit
It is the Korean bathhouse at full scale — an afternoon's ritual of pools, scrubbing and sauna in the country's oldest documented hot spring district.
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The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Dongnae hot springs
- Mineralisation
- Sodium chloride mineral water
- Character
- Salty, mildly alkaline thermal water drawn from the Dongnae field beneath the district and distributed to the bathhouse pools.
History
Dongnae's springs appear in Korean records from the Silla period and served royal visitors and, later, a colonial-era spa town. Hurshimchung opened in 1991 beside Hotel Nongshim, gathering the district's bathing tradition into a single very large facility; a public foot bath still stands on the street outside.
Practical information
Bathing is naked and strictly separated by gender, as in all Korean bathhouses. Optional attendants provide the traditional full-body scrub; allow two to three hours.
Getting there
A few minutes' walk from Oncheonjang Station on Busan Metro Line 1.
Location
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