Sendai Takiyu Onsen, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture
Sendai Takiyu Shared Bath
A very low-cost way to experience the area's historic hot-spring neighbourhood and its famously hot local bath. First-timers may find the water hot; facilities are basic and payment is by honesty box.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 11:00–19:00. Admission is ¥200 for adults and ¥100 for children. Current regional listings describe it as open year-round.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- No facility-specific figure is published. The town gives roughly 50–51°C for the wider spring area, not this bath's fixed source value.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; the two sides have a relative temperature difference.
- Spring source
- The shared Sendai Takiyu spring system; the town says the shared bath draws mainly from two pumps.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple sulfur spring.
- pH
- Not published for this facility.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The town describes a divided bath where water moves from one side to the other as it cools. Current official pages do not give pool-specific details on added water, heating, circulation or disinfection.
Bathing indications
Kagoshima Prefecture and Satsumasendai describe general bathing indications for the simple sulfur spring. This is not a treatment guarantee.
The bath is hot by local standards and may feel especially hot to a first-time visitor. Amenities are simple, and payment is collected via a cash box.
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.
