Yunohama Onsen, Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture
Yunohama Shimoku Public Bath
Choose Shimoku over Kamiku if you need an early-morning bath or a shower. Normal operations resumed after renovation on 31 January 2026; the old alternating-gender schedule no longer applies.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:00–07:00 and 10:00–21:30; last admission 21:00. Closed on the second and fourth Thursdays.
- Tattoo policy
- The current profile material does not include a confirmed tattoo policy. Check with the bath before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published for Shimoku; temperatures from other Yunohama facilities are not substituted.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published as a fixed setting.
- Spring source
- Yunohama Onsen's centrally managed spring supply; the city page does not name the source used specifically by Shimoku.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium chloride spring.
- pH
- Not published for this bath.
- Flow rate
- Not published for this bath.
- Water handling
- Tsuruoka City describes the bath as source-flowing. Current city pages do not publish complete pool-by-pool details for water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection, so no further treatment is inferred.
Bathing indications
The city and tourism pages describe the warming quality of chloride springs as general reference information. It is not a treatment guarantee, and a current analysis for this individual bath was not confirmed.
Source flow is confirmed; other pool-specific conditions are not published.
Admission is ¥400 for junior-high students and older and ¥220 for elementary-school children. Showers are available, but shampoo and other washing products are not provided; they can be bought on site. A ¥100 locker is refundable. The temporary alternating-gender arrangement during renovation ended on 31 January 2026. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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.
