Tsukioka Onsen, Shibata, Niigata Prefecture
Hisagoso Hotel Day-Use Bath
A step up from the communal bath if you want to use a ryokan's bathing facilities. The short window and irregular closures make it much easier if you can call on the day.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 11:00–14:00; last admission 13:00. No reservation is accepted, and closing days vary. Day visits may be suspended over long weekends, New Year, Golden Week and Obon; call before setting out.
- Tattoo policy
- The current first-party information reviewed does not confirm a tattoo policy. Check with the hotel before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published. Tsukioka Onsen's area-wide 51°C figure is not assigned to Hisagoso.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- The spring used by Hisagoso; the current day-use product page does not publish its individual source name.
- Spring classification
- Sulfur spring; the current product page describes it as 100% sulfur spring water but does not provide a full chemical classification.
- pH
- Not published in the current material summarized here.
- Flow rate
- Not published in the current material summarized here.
- Water handling
- The hotel day-use page and Niigata Ryokan and Hotel Association say the large and open-air baths use 100% spring water. That wording is not taken to mean no heating, circulation or disinfection. Pool-specific treatment details are not published.
Bathing indications
The hotel highlights Tsukioka's sulfur spring as the main bathing feature. No medical treatment benefit is promised.
The hotel describes the baths as using 100% spring water. Pool-specific water addition, heating, circulation and disinfection details are not published.
Admission is ¥1,000 for adults and ¥550 for children; cash only. There is no private day-use rest room, but guests may use the lobby after bathing.
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.
