Yahiko Sakurai-go Onsen, Yahiko, Nishikanbara District, Niigata Prefecture
Yahiko Sakurai-go Onsen Sakura-no-Yu
A good place to spend several hours after visiting Yahiko, with a large open-air bath, sauna and stone-spa rooms. It is especially good value after 17:00 on weekdays. It is less suited to a short stop from the station or to anyone with a tattoo.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 10:00–22:00; last admission at 21:15. Closed every Tuesday for the time being, a schedule that began on 18 August 2026.
- Tattoo policy
- Not permitted. The facility's current official rules prohibit entry with tattoos.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published in the current material summarized here.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published as fixed temperatures for each pool.
- Spring source
- The spring used by Yahiko Sakurai-go Onsen Sakura-no-Yu.
- Spring classification
- Sulfur-bearing sodium-calcium chloride spring, based on the operator's July 2023 analysis.
- pH
- Not included in the current material summarized here.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The operator describes the water as 100% natural spring water and confirms that the large open-air bath is source-flowing. Other pools, including pot baths, reclining baths, sitting baths and functional baths, do not have complete current pool-by-pool treatment details published. The open-air bath's source-flowing status is not applied to all pools. The operator's hot-spring page also notes that some water is heated.
- Analysis date
- 2023
Bathing indications
The operator's analysis lists general bathing indications for the spring. These are not treatment guarantees.
The large open-air bath is source-flowing; some pools are heated. Complete treatment conditions for each pool are not published.
Since 1 April 2026, regular admission is ¥1,100 for adults and ¥600 for children. On weekdays after 17:00, rates are ¥650 and ¥400 respectively. Towels cost extra. Older official pages still show previous prices; use the current operator rates. Tattoos are not permitted.
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.
