Shimoyubara, Maniwa, Okayama
Himawarikan
A good fit if you are driving and want an outdoor bath with confirmed source-flowing spring water. Winter weekday hours are much shorter than the usual schedule.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Adults ¥800; children ¥400. Usual hours are 10:00–21:00, last entry 20:30. From November 1 to March 31, weekdays are 15:00–20:00 and weekends 10:00–20:00; last entry is 19:30. Closed Tuesdays and on some year-end dates. Towels are ¥300 and bath towels ¥1,000.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 39°C
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple hot spring; clear and colourless.
- pH
- 9.6
- Flow rate
- 600 L/min
- Water handling
- The operator identifies the separate men's and women's outdoor baths as source-flowing. Details such as water addition, heating and disinfection are not published pool by pool.
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.
