Echizen Coast, Echizen, Fukui
Echizen Onsen Isaribi Open-Air Bath
Isaribi is an easy match for a coastal drive when you want an outdoor soak and sunset views, with the roadside station and family bath nearby. Check seasonal hours and note that tattoos are not allowed.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Open 11:00–21:00, with last admission listed at 20:20. Adult admission is ¥520, ¥310 for elementary-school children and ¥200 for children aged three and over. Tuesday is the usual closure day; the facility opens daily during summer holidays and is closed on the second and fourth Tuesdays from November through March. A family bath is available by phone reservation, usually for groups of at least two.
- Tattoo policy
- Guests with tattoos are not allowed. The current material does not list a family-bath exception.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 40.1°C on the operator's current static page; the analysis date for this figure is not stated
- Bathing temperature
- Not published
- Spring source
- Echizen No. 2 Spring (Kuri Onsen)
- Spring classification
- Sodium bicarbonate and sulfate spring (low-tonicity, weakly alkaline spring), based on Echizen Town's 2024-05-01 survey
- pH
- 7.15 on the operator's current static page; analysis date not stated
- Flow rate
- Not published
- Water handling
- Natural spring water is used in the indoor, outdoor and hinoki baths. The operator states that water is not added, but is heated, circulated and disinfected; the system is not free-flowing.
- Analysis date
- 2024
Bathing indications
The town and facility list general bathing indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, sensitivity to cold and fatigue. These are not treatment guarantees.
Adult admission is ¥520, ¥310 for elementary-school children and ¥200 for children aged three and over. Open 11:00–21:00, last entry 20:20; Tuesday is usually the closure day, with a summer-holiday exception and second/fourth-Tuesday closures from November through March. Tattoos are prohibited. Family baths require a phone reservation and are generally for groups of two or more.
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.
