Yunokawa Onsen, Izumo, Shimane Prefecture
Hikawa Bihada-no-Yu
A convenient value bath for an evening visit or a first Yunokawa day trip. It reopened on 2026-07-28; some tourism listings still carry an old closed label, so rely on current city and facility notices.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Reopened 2026-07-28. Adults aged 16 and over ¥700; guests aged 65 and over ¥500; elementary- and junior-high students ¥400; children aged three and over ¥200. Open 10:00–21:30; last admission 20:30. Closed Tuesdays and the last Wednesday of each month.
- Access
- About a 25-minute walk from JR Shobara Station or 10 minutes by car from Hikawa or Shinji Interchange. Free parking for about 120 cars and five buses.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 50.5°C, as listed by the current Shimane tourism facility page.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed pool temperature is published.
- Spring source
- Yunokawa Onsen; the individual source number is not published.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium sulfate-chloride spring.
- pH
- 8.4 in the current Shimane tourism listing.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The current facility listing says some baths are source-flowing. It does not identify which pool in the reopened layout; older pool-by-pool descriptions are not carried forward.
Do not use older claims of year-round opening or 21:00 last admission; current hours and closing days differ.
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.
