Mitai, Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture
Amaterasu-no-Yu, Hotel Takachiho (Day Use)
A low-cost hotel bath for a break during sightseeing in central Takachiho. It uses an artificial mineral bath, not a natural underground hot spring.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 11:00–16:00. The hotel says it closes Tuesdays, while the tourism association lists Mondays; confirm the schedule with the hotel on the day. Unannounced closures may occur.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not applicable; no underground natural spring is used.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- No underground natural spring. The hotel uses Takachiho water with the natural mineral Koumeiseki to make an artificial, quasi-natural mineral bath.
- Spring classification
- Artificial Koumeiseki mineral bath, described by the hotel as a quasi-natural hot spring; it is not water emerging from an underground hot spring.
- pH
- Not applicable as an underground natural hot spring.
- Flow rate
- Not applicable as an underground natural hot spring.
- Water handling
- The hotel says it prepares bathing water using Takachiho water and Koumeiseki as the main mineral source. There is one indoor bath for men and one for women, plus a sauna.
Bathing indications
The hotel describes the mineral bath as useful for sensitivity to cold, fatigue and neuralgia. This is not a natural-spring analysis or a treatment guarantee.
Admission is ¥390 for adults and ¥250 for children; children under 3 are free. Face towels are ¥100 to buy and bath towels ¥200 to rent. The hotel's official page says closed Tuesdays, while the tourism association says Mondays; call the hotel to confirm. Unannounced closures may occur.
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.
