Hiwa, Shobara, Hiroshima Prefecture
Hiwa Onsen Facility Akebono-so
A quiet, low-cost soak for travellers passing through Hiwa, Mount Azuma or Takano. Choose another bathhouse if you want multiple pools or a sauna.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- The facility's current page lists Monday closures; if Monday is a public holiday, it closes the following day.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published in current local-government text pages.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed pool temperature is published.
- Spring source
- Hiwa Onsen, from an on-site spring; the individual well is not named.
- Spring classification
- Sodium bicarbonate-chloride cool spring.
- pH
- Not published in current local-government text pages.
- Flow rate
- Not published in current local-government text pages.
- Water handling
- The facility uses its on-site spring. The current local-government text page does not publish water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection conditions for individual pools, so they are not inferred.
Bathing indications
The Shobara tourism page lists general indications such as neuralgia and muscle pain. This is not a treatment guarantee.
Closed Mondays; if Monday is a public holiday, the closure moves to the following day. Do not infer unpublished source temperature, pH, yield or bath-treatment details from the low admission price.
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.
