Shiratori Onsen, Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture
Shiratori Onsen Shitayu
A good fit if you want family baths, a garden-like outdoor bath, natural steam and cabin accommodation together. Choose Kamiyu instead if the panoramic view is the main draw.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Public baths 07:00–20:00; closed on the third Tuesday of each month, with the closure moving to the following day when Tuesday is a public holiday. Private baths 09:00–20:00; one room for 60 minutes costs ¥1,520.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published. An older 42°C bath-fill figure is not used as a source temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed pool temperature is published on the current facility page.
- Spring source
- Bathing water at Shiratori Onsen Shitayu, made by heating cold spring water with natural geothermal steam so it absorbs hot-spring minerals, according to Ebino City's current description.
- Spring classification
- Simple hot spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Cold spring water is heated with natural geothermal steam. The facility uses this bathing water in its indoor bath, garden-style outdoor bath, natural steam bath and day-use private bath. It is not described as direct source-flowing water from a conventional high-temperature underground spring.
Bathing indications
Ebino City lists general indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, sensitivity to cold, fatigue and health promotion. This is not a treatment guarantee.
Admission for visitors from outside Ebino is ¥500 for junior-high students and older, ¥250 for elementary-school children; Ebino residents aged junior-high and older pay ¥310. Private bathing is ¥1,520 per room for 60 minutes. Tattoo rules are not confirmed.
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.
