Maruo, Kirishima Onsenkyo, Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture
Maeda Onsen Kajiro-ga-yu
A budget public bath in Maruo with an open-air pool and a geothermal sauna. For a quick, inexpensive soak, it can make more sense than the area's better-known inns.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 09:00–20:00; closed every Thursday. The current operator information takes precedence over an older tourism leaflet that listed only the third Thursday of each month.
- Tattoo policy
- The operator's current pages do not confirm a tattoo policy. Do not assume tattoos are accepted just because this is a public bath; check with the facility before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 72°C in the operator's posted analysis; this is source temperature, not bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Maeda Onsen spring.
- Spring classification
- Simple hot spring (low-salinity, high-temperature spring).
- pH
- The posted analysis gives pH 9.95 at the spring outlet and pH 7.0 in the laboratory test. These are different measurements and neither is presented as bath-water pH.
- Flow rate
- Not published as a readable flow rate in the current analysis.
- Water handling
- The operator describes the baths as using natural spring water on a source-flowing basis. It has not published complete, pool-by-pool details for water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection, so no further treatment is inferred.
Bathing indications
The operator's analysis lists general bathing indications including fatigue, nervous-system conditions and skin conditions. These are hot-spring reference information, not a promise of treatment.
Source-flowing water is confirmed; details beyond that are not published for each pool.
The facility has an indoor bath, open-air bath, natural geothermal sauna, cold bath and footbath. 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.
