Motomachi, Beppu, Oita
Takegawara Onsen
A historic bathhouse near Beppu Station, with ordinary baths and a separately ticketed sand bath. The sand bath does not take reservations; expect a wait at busy times, and last admission may move earlier when crowded.
Facility photos
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Ordinary baths 06:30–22:30. Sand bath 08:00–22:30; last admission 21:30, possibly earlier when busy. Ordinary bath: adult ¥300, child ¥100. Sand bath: ¥1,500. No facility parking; about a 10-minute walk from Beppu Station.
- Tattoo policy
- Beppu City's current tourism page explicitly says tattoos are accepted. Follow staff instructions on site.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Men's bath 48.8°C; women's bath 48.9°C; sand-bath spring 52.1°C, from separate city analyses sampled February 20, 2019.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; source figures are not fixed ordinary-bath temperatures or a fixed sand temperature.
- Spring source
- Separate analyses are used for the men's ordinary bath, women's ordinary bath and sand bath.
- Spring classification
- Men's bath and sand bath: sodium-calcium-magnesium chloride-bicarbonate spring. Women's bath: sodium bicarbonate spring.
- pH
- Men's bath 7.5; women's bath 7.7 on site / 7.8 in the lab; sand bath 7.3 on site / 7.4 in the lab.
- Flow rate
- Not measured in the analyses; actual flow rates are not published.
- Water handling
- Beppu City describes the baths as source-flowing. Ordinary bathing and the sand bath use separate spring analyses; values are not interchangeable. The ordinary baths are not private and there is no outdoor bath.
The sand bath uses an on-site ticket queue and may involve waiting; it is not reservable.
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.
