Shinjo, Shobara, Hiroshima Prefecture
Oka-no-Sato La Foret Shobara
A convenient first choice if you want natural spring water and several bathing areas near central Shobara, Bihoku Hills Park or the Shobara interchange. The mist sauna at Asagiri-no-yu was reported out of service in the current tourism listing.
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Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published in current first-party text pages.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed pool temperatures are published.
- Spring source
- Shobara Sakura Onsen; the individual well is not named.
- Spring classification
- Simple hot spring (low-tonicity, weakly alkaline).
- pH
- Not published in current first-party text pages.
- Flow rate
- Not published in current first-party text pages.
- Water handling
- Spring water is heated and supplied to the large bath and outdoor bath. Chlorine-based chemicals are added and the water is circulated through filtration to address Legionella risk. Other pools use ordinary heated water, so the roughly 15–16 pools are not all natural-spring baths.
Bathing indications
The facility lists general bathing indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, sensitivity to cold and fatigue. This is not a personal treatment guarantee.
The natural spring applies to the large bath and outdoor bath only; it is not assumed to feed all pools. The Asagiri-no-yu mist sauna was listed as out of service on the current Shobara tourism page. The facility changed its day-use prices in April 2026.
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.
