Kohama Onsen, Yunotsu area, Oda, Shimane Prefecture
Kohama Onsen Saichi-no-Yu
A late-opening, walkable option from Yunotsu Station for a gentler soak. This is Kohama Onsen, a different source from Yunotsu Motoyu and Yakushiyu; the facility explicitly adds water and heats the spring.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Reopened on 2024-11-26. Open 17:00–22:00; last admission 21:00. Closed on the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th and 30th of each month. The current official page lists a ¥1,000 bathing set, a five-visit pass for ¥3,000 and a ten-visit pass for ¥5,000; the current single-entry price is not clearly listed.
- Access
- About a 5-minute walk from JR Yunotsu Station. Showers are available.
- Tattoo policy
- No current first-party tattoo rule was confirmed; check with the facility if needed.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 25.3°C; this is the source temperature, not the bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; the source water is heated before bathing.
- Spring source
- Kohama Onsen, a self-flowing source on the property.
- Spring classification
- Carbon dioxide-bearing sodium-calcium chloride spring.
- pH
- 6.1.
- Flow rate
- The source flows naturally on the property; a litres-per-minute figure is not published.
- Water handling
- Shimane Prefecture classifies the bath as source-flowing, and the operator also states that water is added and heated. Current first-party information does not settle circulation or disinfection details.
Do not confuse this spring with the two historic Yunotsu public baths. It opens in the evening and has six fixed closing dates each month.
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.
