Takeo Onsen, Takeo, Saga Prefecture
Takeo Onsen Motoyu
The simplest way to pair Takeo's historic bathhouse setting with a low-cost soak. It is a public bath without a private room, outdoor bath or sauna, and the operator explicitly excludes guests with tattoos.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:30–23:45; last admission 23:00. Adults ¥500; children aged three through elementary school ¥250. A full-house cleaning closure takes place in mid-December; check the exact 2026 date before visiting.
- Access
- About a 10-minute walk from JR Takeo-Onsen Station; allow 10–15 minutes depending on the exit and pace.
- 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 Motoyu; regional Takeo figures are not substituted.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed pool temperature is published.
- Spring classification
- Weakly alkaline simple spring.
- 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 a complete source record or pool-by-pool water-addition, heating, circulation and disinfection conditions; 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.
