Ichihino Onsen, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Sekaiichi Onsen
Sekaiichi is the pick in Ichihino if you care more about a public bath with explicitly free-flowing spring water and a ¥600 admission than private bathing or resort-style extras.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Weekdays 10:00–21:00; weekends and public holidays 10:00–22:00. Closed Tuesdays. Adult admission is ¥600. The facility also has eight private family baths; check directly for current booking terms and rates.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- About 50°C at emergence, as described by the facility; not a fixed analysis value or bath temperature
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; the facility says the water is not too hot but gives no fixed temperature
- Spring source
- The facility's own Sekaiichi Onsen spring; no formal source number is published on its current pages
- Spring classification
- Weakly alkaline spring in the Ichihino simple-spring area; a more specific current facility classification is not published
- pH
- Not published
- Flow rate
- Not published
- Water handling
- The facility explicitly describes its water as 100% free-flowing, with no tap water mixed in and no recirculated bath water. Current pages do not provide a complete itemized account of heating and disinfection, so those details are not inferred.
Bathing indications
The facility uses visitor-facing descriptions such as skin-friendly and warming. These are not treatment claims.
Admission is ¥600 for adults; older ¥500 references are not current. Closed Tuesdays. 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.
