Chikugogawa Onsen, Ukiha, Fukuoka
Chikugogawa Onsen Kiyonoya
A public bath and two private family baths, including a rooftop sauna bath. The current hotel day-use page sets the public schedule, while family baths are limited to the morning and cannot be booked ahead; the hotel warns that some dates do not accept day visitors.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Hotel day-use page: 10:00–21:00; family baths 10:00–14:00, with no advance reservations. Public bath: adult ¥600, child ¥300. Family baths 'Momiji-no-Yu' and 'Hinoki-no-Yu' are ¥2,500 for 50 minutes; rooftop 'Fuugetsu' with sauna is ¥4,000 for 50 minutes. Call ahead because some dates do not accept day visitors.
- Tattoo policy
- Fukuoka Prefecture's current tourism listing marks tattoos as accepted. Confirm directly with the hotel if you need details on size or whether the rule differs between public and private baths.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 42.1°C.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published for individual day-use baths; guest-review estimates are not used as fixed values.
- Spring source
- Chikugogawa Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple spring; low-tonicity and high-temperature.
- pH
- 8.9, measured at 24.5°C.
- Flow rate
- 275 L/min by mechanical pumping.
- Water handling
- The hotel says no water is added or heated and describes the bath as source-flowing. The tubs are fully changed during daily cleaning and continuously refreshed; bath water is not treated with chlorine, though sodium hypochlorite is used during cleaning.
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.
