Chikugogawa Onsen, Ukiha, Fukuoka

Hotel Hanageshiki

A hotel bath with a public indoor pool and five separately priced private baths. The current public listing does not guarantee a public outdoor bath for day visitors, and the private-bath price differs by room.

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Opening hours
Weekdays 11:00–22:00; weekends and holidays 10:00–22:00. Public bath: adult ¥600, elementary-school age ¥400, ages 3–6 ¥300. Four private baths are ¥1,000 per adult, ¥400 per elementary-school child and ¥300 for ages 3–6; the Kikyo room is ¥1,300 per adult with the same child rates. Rates are per person.
Tattoo policy
Fukuoka Prefecture's current tourism listing marks tattoos as prohibited.

Spring & water temperature

Spring-source temperature
No current fixed value published.
Bathing temperature
Not published.
Spring source
Hanageshiki's own spring; a formal source name was not published.
Spring classification
The current prefectural listing calls it an alkaline sulfur spring. An older hotel page calls it an alkaline simple spring; the difference has not been resolved.
pH
9.1 on the hotel's current homepage.
Flow rate
The hotel's booking page says about 14 tonnes per hour; the figure is kept in the operator's original unit.
Water handling
The hotel describes the spring as source-flowing, without chlorine disinfection or circulation filtration. Treatment details by individual pool are not fully published. A public outdoor bath is not treated as guaranteed day-use access in 2026.

Bath experience

Comfort
8.5/10
Bath variety
9.0/10
Upkeep
8.0/10
Atmosphere
8.0/10
Quiet
8.0/10
Access
6.5/10
Value
8.0/10

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.

Sources

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