Akune Onsen, Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture
Sakaeya Ryokan Bontan-yu
A low-cost, easy-to-reach way to experience Akune's strongly saline spring in town.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:00–21:30. Weekday cleaning break: 10:30–15:00.
- Tattoo policy
- The current Akune City and prefectural tourism pages reviewed do not state a tattoo policy. Check with the bath before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published in the current material summarized here.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Bontan-yu spring, Akune Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Strong-saline hot spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Akune City and Kagoshima Prefecture list it as a natural hot spring with indoor bathing and day-use access. Current main pages do not publish pool-by-pool details for water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection, so none are inferred.
Bathing indications
A current facility-specific list of bathing indications was not confirmed.
Natural spring use is confirmed; pool-treatment details are not published.
The prefectural tourism page lists admission at ¥350 for adults and ¥130 for children. The seasonal Bontan-yu event is not a daily feature. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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.
