Takeo Onsen, Takeo, Saga Prefecture
Takeo Onsen Horai-yu
A low-cost public bath near the Romon gate, with a shorter day-use window than Motoyu or Sagi-no-Yu. The current tourism-association page explicitly bars guests with tattoos.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:30–21:30; last admission 20:30. Adults ¥500; children aged three through elementary school ¥250. A full-house cleaning closure is held in mid-December; check the exact date before visiting.
- Access
- Behind the Takeo Onsen Romon gate, around a 10-minute walk from JR Takeo-Onsen Station.
- Tattoo policy
- Guests with tattoos are not admitted. No cover-sticker exception is listed in current official information.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published for Horai-yu; regional figures are not substituted.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring classification
- Takeo Onsen, with a weakly alkaline/simple spring classification in regional material.
- pH
- Not published for this facility.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- A public bath using Takeo Onsen water. Current facility information does not publish complete pool-by-pool water-addition, heating, circulation or disinfection details; source flow is not inferred.
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.
