Myoken Onsen

Myoken Onsen is a hot spring resort area along the Amori River in Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, and the largest of the hot springs in the Shinkawa Valley (Shinkawa Keikoku) group. It sits about 15 minutes by car from Kagoshima Airport and offers accommodations ranging from simple inns to ryokan with private open-air riverside baths. The water is classified as a sodium-calcium-magnesium bicarbonate spring, prized locally for leaving skin feeling smooth. Several undeveloped wild hot springs are also scattered along the river in the surrounding Myoken-Anraku Onsen-kyo area.