Iriki Onsen, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture
Suwa Onsen
A quiet inn bath for visitors who would choose a 45.7°C private spring and the history of an old therapeutic inn over extensive facilities.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- The bathhouse lists 06:00–21:30. The final admission time for non-guests is not stated separately, so call ahead if arriving late. The prefectural tourism page says the inn closes irregularly, about once a month.
- Tattoo policy
- The inn's current main pages reviewed do not confirm a tattoo policy. Contact the inn before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 45.7°C at the source; this is not a fixed bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Suwa Onsen's own spring.
- Spring classification
- Chloride spring.
- pH
- Not published in the current material summarized here.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The inn publishes its own spring and water classification, but current main pages do not provide full pool-by-pool details for water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection. No treatment method is inferred.
Bathing indications
No specific medical effect is claimed here.
The inn confirms its own spring, but detailed pool-treatment conditions are not published.
The prefectural tourism page lists day admission at ¥300 for adults, ¥140 for elementary-school children and ¥80 for children aged six and under. 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.
