Yuwaku Onsen, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture
Shirasagi-no-Yu, Yuwaku Onsen Sōyu
A low-cost option for visitors based in Kanazawa who can spare half a day for the bus ride into the mountains. It is less practical if you have only an hour or want a sauna and a broad range of facilities.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 07:00–22:00. Closed on the third Thursday of each month; check official notices for temporary closures.
- Tattoo policy
- The facility's current first-party information does not confirm a tattoo policy. Check with the bathhouse before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published. The official pages classify it as a cool spring but give no exact source temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published in current official information.
- Spring source
- Yuwaku Onsen; the current official pages do not identify a specific source well for Shirasagi-no-Yu in 2026.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-chloride-sulfate spring; low-salinity, mildly alkaline and classified as a cool spring.
- pH
- Not published; the official description says mildly alkaline.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The current Yuwaku Onsen Tourism Association and Kanazawa pages confirm a natural-spring public bath. Full, bath-by-bath information on water addition, heating, circulation, filtration and disinfection is not published, so it is not described as entirely source-flowing.
Bathing indications
Yuwaku Onsen lists general bathing indications including chronic muscle or joint pain, sensitivity to cold, poor peripheral circulation and fatigue. These are not treatment guarantees.
Water addition, heating, circulation, filtration and disinfection details are not published for each bath.
The fare was revised from ¥450 to ¥490 on 1 April 2025. The Hokutetsu Yuwaku bus timetable changed substantially on 15 March 2026; check the current timetable, which was updated on 5 July 2026, before travelling.
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.
