Nagamine, Owani, Aomori
Shokanto Onsen Ryokan
A strong choice for visitors who care about spring figures, source-flowing water and a long-soak or therapeutic stay. It is an outlying inn rather than a lively hot-spring-town stop, and its facilities are more practical than resort-like.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Day-use bathing 07:00–21:00. Overnight guests may bathe outside the 21:00–22:30 cleaning period. Station pickup must be arranged in advance and is subject to availability, usually around 07:30–18:00. The inn lists a one-week-or-longer half-board stay from ¥5,940 per night, plus heating charges and bathing tax; dates may be excluded.
- Tattoo policy
- No current tattoo policy was confirmed in the research file. Ask the inn before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 31.5°C.
- Bathing temperature
- The operator lists heating to 42°C; this is a heating target, not a guarantee that every pool remains at a fixed measured temperature.
- Spring source
- Shokanto's own spring.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple spring; hypotonic, alkaline and low-temperature.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The inn describes the water as 100% natural and source-flowing. Its heat-pump system warms the 31.5°C source; the operator says the bath pools and washing-area taps also use spring water.
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.
