Seibu-Chichibu Station, Chichibu, Saitama
Seibu Chichibu Ekimae Onsen Matsuri-no-Yu
The easiest stop for a soak before catching a train: it sits beside Seibu-Chichibu Station and offers several bath types. Only the rock bath is identified as natural spring water; the carbonated, silk and seasonal baths are separate offerings. Tattoos are not allowed.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Usually 10:00–22:00, last admission 21:30. Weekend and public-holiday morning bathing is available 06:00–09:00. Confirm the date-specific schedule before an early visit.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos, tattoo stickers and painted-on designs are not allowed. Guests wearing diapers may not use the baths, regardless of age.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 22°C.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Seibu Chichibu Ekimae Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Iodine-bearing sodium-chloride cold mineral spring; isotonic, weakly alkaline and cold.
- pH
- 7.5.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Natural spring water drawn from about 2,000 metres underground is used in the rock bath. The operator lists the concentrated-carbon dioxide bath, silk bath and jet baths separately; their water should not be treated as natural spring water. Pool-treatment details for the rock bath are not published.
- Analysis date
- 22
Bathing with diapers is 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.
