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Chatan Megumi Onsen

Okinawa · ちゃたん恵み温泉

Chatan Megumi Onsen is a hot spring town in Okinawa, Japan. The water leaves the ground at 42.1°C, hot. Officially the water is classed as bicarbonate spring.

The water here

Bicarbonate spring 炭酸水素塩泉

Smooth, slightly slippery water. Often nicknamed bihada-no-yu, the water for beautiful skin.

Things to see nearby

Places from Wikidata, photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Distances are in a straight line from the town.

With tattoos

Many public baths still turn away visible tattoos, and the rule is set by each bath, not by the town. The reliable way round it is to bathe privately: a room with its own open-air bath, or an inn with a private bath you can book for yourselves.

More on tattoos and onsen

Where to stay

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Hot spring towns nearby

Similar water elsewhere

Towns further away with the same kind of water — useful if this one is hard to reach or fully booked.

The numbers

Water temperature

42.1°C

Address in Japanese

沖縄県中頭郡北谷町字美浜2番地

Figures from the town's Japanese Wikipedia article.

Where it is

26.3133, 127.7558 — open the map

Read more

Japanese Wikipedia