Sako, Tokushima City, Tokushima
Motomachi-yu
A classic neighbourhood sento with a sauna, silky bath, electric bath and cold bath. Current material does not establish a natural spring; the main bath is notably hot at around 42–43°C.
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- Opening hours
- 13:00–22:30. Closed on the 5th, 15th and 25th of each month. Adult admission ¥450.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not applicable; no natural source is confirmed.
- Bathing temperature
- The central main bath is reported at 42–43°C; temperatures of other baths are not fixed in the reviewed material.
- Spring source
- A natural spring has not been confirmed in the current material reviewed.
- Spring classification
- Public bathhouse; no natural-spring analysis is available.
- pH
- Not applicable.
- Flow rate
- Not applicable.
- Water handling
- Ordinary sento water supply. User reports describe groundwater in the cold bath, but groundwater does not by itself establish natural hot-spring status.
Groundwater in a cold bath and a legally classified natural spring are separate things.
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.
