Wakura Onsen Footbath

Wakura Onsen is the biggest hot-spring town on the Noto Peninsula, and the 2024 earthquake hit it hard. Inns closed, and the free foot bath in Yuttari Park went out of use. It came back on May 12, 2026, as the Wakura Pokémon Footbath, with Pokémon decor paid for by the Pokémon with You Foundation as part of its recovery work in Ishikawa.

The bath sits on the edge of Nanao Bay, so the Pokémon sharing it are mostly Water types. Gyarados is the showpiece, rearing over the bath with hot water pouring from its open mouth. Nearby, Politoed leans over a wooden tub where a Poliwag is taking its own soak. Vaporeon, Psyduck, Quaxly and Pikachu fill out the cast of seven, and dozens more Pokémon peek in through the paper-screen windows. Take a seat facing the water and you're looking across the bay to Notojima.

Gyarados, Poliwag and Politoed match the ones on Nanao's Poké Lid, which sits by the entrance. It's one of the 6 lids the foundation gave the peninsula in April 2026, the first Poké Lids on Noto.

Entry is free, but the bath shuts for the whole day whenever a weather warning is out for Nanao, so check before a stormy-day visit. Bring your own towel and a bag to carry it home wet. House rules ask you to photograph the figures from a step back and keep your hands off them. Wakura Onsen is one stop past Nanao on the Noto Pokémon trail.