- Bathing
- Indoor / Outdoor
- Established
- 1653
- Accommodation
- Hotel on site
Unzen Onsen sits high on the Shimabara Peninsula among fumaroles known as the jigoku, or hells. Bathing was formalised in the seventeenth century and the village later became one of Japan's first resorts popular with foreign residents.
Balnevia view
Why visit
Strongly acidic, milky sulphur water and paths through steaming volcanic ground give Unzen a rawness that polished resorts lack.
The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Unzen jigoku springs
- Mineralisation
- Strongly acidic sulphur, pH about 2
- Character
- Volcanic sulphur water, milky white and strongly scented.
Practical information
Reached by bus from Isahaya or Shimabara; most bathing is in ryokan and a few public baths.
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