About Wakura Onsen

• The Discovery of Wakura and
  the Legend of the Egret

  

  About 1200 years ago (806-810) onsens gushed out on the west side of Yakushidake (present-day Yunotani). This is the opening of Wakura Onsen.

  After that, the precious Onsen was used for daily life, and it was useful as a good-cause, such as an anecdote that "fish can be caught well when you wash your body in the Valley of Yunotani and go fishing".

  However, about 250 years later, during the Eiso-era (1046-1053), crustal movement occurred, and the spring mouth moved into the sea 60 meters offshore, and the Onsens in Yunotani withered.

  One day, a fisherman couple living in Wakura finds a wounded egret healing in the bubbling sea. When they approached and put their hand in the sea, they found that it was an onsen. This is "Wakura", and it is said that it was the first to discover an onsen in the sea of Wakura.

• Popular as an onsen for Medical Treatment

  

  In 1611, when Toshinaga Maeda, the second lord of the Kaga domain, was troubled by tumor, he ordered "Wakura no Yu" and treated it, which increased the reputation of Wakura no Yu. In 1641, Toshitsuyo Maeda, the third lord of the Kaga domain, ordered the maintenance of the spring mouth and the restaying of the surrounding area, and Yushima was built.

  Since then, many visitors have come to visit Wakura For medical treatment, and the folk song about Wakura, which thrives despite having only seven of half-farming and half-fishing houses became popular "Wakura, Wakura and seven houses, who will go if there is no hot water on the island?"

  After that, the land resist of Yushima proceeded, a bridge was built, and as "inn earning" was allowed in 1654, a large yuzaya, a mineral spring inn that took a break as an open-air bath, and an indoor bath inn were built.

  In 1674, at the order of the Kaga domain, "Wakura（涌浦）" was changed to "Wakura（和倉）" because it was easy to write it wrong.

  At the end of the Edo shogunate, the reputation gained and as the number of visitors to Kyoto, Osaka's wealthy merchants, artists, and haiku poets increased, the name "Wakura" became even more roaring.

• Highly rated worldwide

  

  At the World Mineral Spring Expo held in Germany in 1889, it was honored as the "World's Third Mineral Spring", and the quality and medical efficacy of Wakura Onsen have been highly evaluated for a long time.

• The imperial family's coming fountain
  and the still-remaining palace

  

  

  In 1909, the Crown Prince at that time (who became Emperor Daisei) became the first royal family to visit Wakura. It was also the first onsen resort in the prefecture, thus they built a resting place (gonden) for your imperial highness in advance.

  The gonden is built in an old-style architectural style with a total cypress-making main hall of 53 tsubo and an attendant's front room of 48 tsubo. The day before coming, more than 300 ships entered Nanao Bay with guests from all over Noto, and the ryokan in Wakura Onsen was filled with related officers and members of the mass media, and the welcoming mood was growing.

  His Highness, who entered the palace on the day, loved the scenery of Nanao Bay and enjoyed the Onsen in a bathtub made of cypress.

  Since then, many members of the royal family have visited.

  ※ The main hall was moved to "Seirinji" in 1976 and the sub-hall was moved to "Shingyōji". In 2017, it was registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property.