Amagase Onsen, Hita, Oita
Baranoyu
A low-cost day bath with a semi-open-air rock bath and family-bath options. Current official listings disagree on how many private baths are available, so check which rooms are operating before planning around one.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 12:00–21:00; closed on the first and third Tuesdays. General admission: adult ¥400. Family bath: ¥2,500. Current local official pages give different counts for the private baths, and do not consistently list each room's format or session length; confirm on the day.
- Tattoo policy
- A tattoo policy was not found in the current local tourism association and prefectural pages reviewed. A private bath does not automatically confirm tattoo access; ask the facility.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 82°C in Oita Prefecture's tourism information; this is the source temperature, not the bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- The spring used by Baranoyu; a formal source name was not published.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- 150 L/min in Oita Prefecture's tourism information.
- Water handling
- Official local listings confirm a natural spring and a semi-open-air rock bath, but do not fully publish whether each pool is diluted, heated, circulated, disinfected or source-flowing. Private-bath counts differ between current listings.
Bathing indications
The prefectural listing describes the spring as alkaline and makes general skin-related remarks, but a complete current bathing-indications list tied to the individual source was not obtained. No personal medical benefit is implied.
Do not treat the 82°C source temperature as a bathing temperature.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
