Hijikawa, Ozu, Ehime Prefecture
Ozu City Exchange Center Kanogawa-so
A natural-spring bath with indoor and outdoor pools, sauna and two separate pools that use tap water. Check which baths use the spring rather than assuming the whole facility shares the same water.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Day bathing 11:00–21:00; last admission 20:00. Adult admission ¥600; children aged 4 through elementary school ¥300. The facility has an indoor bath, outdoor bath, sauna, waterfall-style bath and mugwort bath. The mugwort and waterfall-style pools use tap water, not the spring.
- Tattoo policy
- The current profile does not confirm a tattoo policy; ask the facility before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 20.7°C in the operator's analysis dated December 10, 2008.
- Bathing temperature
- 42.0°C is listed as a use-point temperature in the operator's current analysis section; it is not a fixed temperature for every pool.
- Spring source
- Kanogawa Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Low-tonicity alkaline cold mineral spring.
- pH
- 10.0.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The main bath uses Kanogawa mineral-spring water. The operator identifies the waterfall-style and mugwort baths as tap water. Treatment details for other individual pools are not fully published.
The source temperature and the listed 42.0°C use-point temperature refer to different stages. Some Ehime tourism pages show an older adult price of ¥650; this profile uses the facility's current ¥600 listing.
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.
