Higashi-Ono, Aomori City, Aomori
Gokurakuyu Aomori
A strong budget choice for natural spring water, outdoor pools, carbonated bathing and sauna time, with late-night hours. It is not a quiet private-bath retreat. Tattoos and tattoo stickers are explicitly prohibited, and admission and ticket-book purchases are cash-only.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:00–01:00 the following day; last reception 00:20. September 2026 prices: adults ¥530, school-age children ¥200, children aged three and up ¥100, and children under three free. Admission and ticket-book purchases are cash-only.
- Tattoo policy
- People with tattoos are not admitted. Tattoo stickers must be removed before entry.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published as a current value. Older analysis figures are not treated as current.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published as a fixed current value for the natural spring pools.
- Spring source
- Natural spring water pumped from 986 metres underground.
- Spring classification
- The current facility page confirms natural hot-spring water but does not provide a current formal classification in the research summary.
- pH
- Not published as a current value.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The operator lists the natural bath, outdoor rock bath, jar baths and Aomori cypress bath as natural spring baths. The cypress bath is a carbonated pool using natural spring water as its base; it is not a naturally carbonated spring. Complete treatment details for every pool are not published.
Mixed-gender bathing is not permitted for opposite-sex children aged seven or older who are at least 120 cm tall.
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.
