Yoake, Hita, Oita
Hita Onsen Gensenya Private Baths
Four indoor private baths, with enamel, hinoki and cut-stone options. The facility explicitly directs guests with tattoos away from the public bath and recommends booking a private bath instead; bring your own toiletries for the private room.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 10:00–20:00; private-bath admission closes at 19:00, and rooms may stop taking guests earlier when full. Closed Tuesdays, except when Tuesday is a public holiday. Private baths: 50 minutes for ¥1,300 (enamel) or ¥1,500 (hinoki or cut stone). Weekday solo use from 10:00 to 17:00 is ¥1,000.
- Tattoo policy
- Guests with tattoos may not use the public bath. The facility FAQ recommends using a private bath; this is the facility's stated option, not a general rule for other baths.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- A self-flowing spring from about 1,500 metres underground; a formal individual source name was not published.
- Spring classification
- Bicarbonate spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The operator describes the private baths as source-flowing. The four private rooms are indoors; individual bath temperatures are not published. Shampoo, conditioner and body wash are not supplied in the private baths.
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.
