Iwai Onsen, Tottori Prefecture
Iwai Yukamuri Onsen
A low-cost local bath for a direct soak in Iwai's source-flowing water, with early-morning and evening hours. Short cleaning breaks interrupt the day, so check the schedule if timing is tight.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:00–22:00. Admission through 2026-09-30 is ¥380 for adults and ¥190 for children; the operator announced that rates rise to ¥480 and ¥240 from 2026-10-01. Entry pauses for cleaning and disinfection from 10:00–10:15 and 15:45–16:00. Usually open daily, with possible June and November cleaning closures and separate year-end notices.
- Tattoo policy
- No current first-party tattoo policy was confirmed; contact the facility if this matters.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 49.8°C.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed bath temperature is published; the city says the source water reaches a comfortable temperature by the time it enters the pool.
- Spring source
- Iwai Yukamuri Onsen No. 1 source.
- Spring classification
- Calcium-sodium sulfate spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Tottori City describes the bath as 100% source-flowing, and the facility says water flows from the spring directly into the bath and continuously drains away. A complete technical list of heating, circulation and disinfection is not published.
49.8°C is the source temperature, not the pool temperature. The October price increase should not be applied to visits before 2026-10-01.
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.
