Kagoshima Tarumizu City
A natural onsen fed straight from the source, never recirculated, overlooking Sakurajima and Kinko Bay
Livemax Resort Sakurajima Seafront is a resort hotel in Tarumizu, Kagoshima Prefecture. It enjoys a superb location overlooking Kinko Bay and the majestic Sakurajima, where you can stay with the sea breeze around you. The main bathhouse has a proper sauna scented with aroma oils, where the löyly is the kind you pour yourself, and cold plunges of different character, including one in a Shigaraki-ware tub, for a pleasant cool-down. The greatest draw is the alkaline simple sulfur spring of pH 9.8 that rises from underground. This natural onsen, fed straight from the source, never recirculated, envelops the body with a silky texture just like skin lotion. Rooms with semi-open-air onsen baths, glamping and a restaurant using local ingredients round out the place, so you can enjoy a resort stay just as you like.

An open panoramic bath with sweeping ocean views of Sakurajima and Kinko Bay below. It offers an alkaline simple sulfur spring of pH 9.8, rising from deep underground and fed straight from the source, never recirculated. The water is known for a silky, mellow feel like fine skin lotion, and after bathing your skin feels smooth and moist.

Semi-open-air baths in some of the carefully designed rooms, in styles such as Japanese modern and Western modern. In a private space where no one will disturb you, you can have the natural onsen to yourself while feeling the resort breeze. It promises a luxurious time, bathing as often as you like, whenever you like.

A proper dry sauna with a convection stove stacked with sauna stones. Using three kinds of aroma oil, you can pour your own löyly and sweat slowly, wrapped in the humidity and scent you like. In the quiet room you sit with the heat and come away deeply refreshed in body and mind.

A cool cold plunge that crisply pulls taut a body flushed from the sauna. With touches such as a Shigaraki-ware tub, each bath, which alternates daily between men and women, has its own character. After a thorough cool-down, you can rest pleasantly in the relaxed, open atmosphere of the resort.
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