Kashima, Matsue, Shimane Prefecture
Kashima Taku-no-Yu
A practical lower-cost Matsue-area bath with sauna and bookable private rooms. Public-transport visitors should check the Kashima bus timetable in advance; the spring details are clearer than the individual pool-treatment system.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Adults ¥530; children aged three through elementary school ¥260; children under three free. Open 10:00–21:00; last admission 20:30. Closed Thursdays, moving to Friday when Thursday is a public holiday. A private room for up to four guests costs ¥2,440 per hour and requires a reservation. Face towels ¥230; bathing supplies are provided.
- Access
- In the Kashima area of Matsue. Check current bus service from central Matsue before travelling without a car.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 50.5°C.
- Bathing temperature
- The operator lists 34.0°C at the tap as a point-of-use figure; it is not a fixed temperature for every bath.
- Spring source
- Kobu Horibe Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Sodium chloride-sulfate spring; low-salinity, alkaline and hot spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The current operator page does not itemize water addition, heating, circulation, disinfection or source-flowing conditions by pool.
Rock and cypress bath areas switch between genders weekly. The 50.5°C figure is the source temperature; 34.0°C is the operator's point-of-use figure, not a fixed bath temperature.
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.
