Katori, Chiba Prefecture
Ofuro Café Karin no Yu
A hot-spring and sauna stop at THE FARM, with a swimwear-or-loungewear sauna area. Tattoo-friendly access is restricted to a specific evening window and does not permit use of the baths or sauna before then.
Facility photos
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Normally 07:00–24:00; last admission 23:00. Since March 9, 2026, adult admission for 120 minutes is ¥950 on weekdays and ¥1,390 on weekends; Free Time is ¥1,280 on weekdays and ¥1,980 on weekends. The Free Time plan includes lounge wear; towels are extra. The 120-minute plan includes neither lounge wear nor towels.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoo-friendly access is available only during TATTOO FRIENDLY TIME, 21:00–24:00. Guests entering before 21:00 must fully cover their tattoos and cannot use the baths or sauna until 21:00. Shared sauna use requires swimwear or lounge wear. Children under 3 and guests using diapers are not permitted in the sauna; non-toilet-trained infants should use a baby bath rather than the public tub.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published. The stated 41°C is an adjusted use temperature, not the source temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- The spring is adjusted to 41°C; fixed settings for individual pools are not published.
- Spring classification
- Iron spring and iodine-sodium chloride strong saline spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The spring is pumped from 1,500 metres underground and adjusted to 41°C. Complete treatment details by pool are not published; source-flowing use should not be assumed.
The tattoo-friendly window is time-limited and does not waive the before-21:00 cover and bathing restrictions.
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.
