Tokura-Kamiyamada Onsen, Chikuma, Nagano Prefecture
Tsuru-no-Yu Public Bath
A low-cost option to look into first for older visitors, people with mobility needs or families with children under 12. Choose Zuisho for more pools, a sauna or late-night hours.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 09:00–21:00. Closed on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.
- Tattoo policy
- The facility's current first-party information does not confirm a tattoo policy. Check with the bathhouse before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Tokura-Kamiyamada Onsen; the individual source is not published.
- Spring classification
- Simple sulfur spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The Shinshu Chikuma Tourism Bureau confirms this is an operating natural-spring public bath in Tokura-Kamiyamada. The current Seven Lucky Gods listing does not give bath-specific details on water addition, heating, circulation, disinfection or source flow.
Bathing indications
The tourism bureau lists general bathing indications associated with the spring, including neuralgia, muscle pain, chronic skin conditions, sensitivity to cold and cuts. These are not treatment guarantees.
Bath-specific water-treatment and source-flow conditions are not published in the current listing.
Admission is ¥400 for adults; children under 12 enter free. The bathhouse describes itself as accessible, but confirm specific requirements for wheelchair access, handrails or changing facilities before travelling.
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.
