Nishibayashigi, Izumo, Shimane Prefecture
Kitayama Onsen
A balanced post-visit bath after Izumo Taisha, with a natural-spring indoor pool, an artificial carbonated outdoor bath and sauna. The outdoor carbonated bath is not the site's natural spring.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Adults ¥700; guests aged 65 and over ¥500; elementary- and junior-high students ¥500; preschool children aged three and over ¥300. Open 10:00–21:30; last admission 21:00. Generally open year-round, with several equipment-maintenance closures each year.
- Access
- About 8 minutes by car from Izumo Taisha, 5 minutes from Shimane Winery or a 10-minute walk from Kawato Station on the Ichibata Railway.
- Tattoo policy
- No current tattoo rule was confirmed on the operator or local tourism pages reviewed; ask the facility before visiting if relevant.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 25.1°C in the current Shimane tourism listing.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Kitayama Onsen; the current page does not list a more specific source number.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline simple spring; low-salinity, alkaline and low-temperature spring.
- pH
- 9.0 in the current Shimane tourism listing.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The operator identifies the indoor bath as natural spring water. The outdoor bath is an artificial high-concentration carbonated bath, with free carbon dioxide above 1,000 mg/L. Current material does not detail water treatment for the natural bath pool by pool.
25.1°C is the source temperature, not the bath temperature. The carbonated outdoor bath is artificial, not a natural carbon-dioxide spring.
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.
