Yufuin Onsen, Yufu, Oita
Shitanyu
A small mixed-gender bath beside Lake Kinrin, with a shared changing and bathing area and an outdoor bath visible from a nearby walking path. Official and local listings disagree on the closing time, so confirm before arriving late.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Oita Prefecture lists 10:00–22:00 with no regular closing day. A current local listing gives 10:00–21:00 and irregular closing days. Admission is listed as ¥300 locally; payment is made at the on-site box. Verify the same-day hours and price before visiting.
- Tattoo policy
- A current first-party tattoo rule was not found. Mixed-gender bathing and unmanned payment do not imply permission; check locally if needed.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 69.4°C in Oita Prefecture's current listing; this is the source temperature, not the bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- A current individual source name was not published.
- Spring classification
- Simple spring, according to Oita Prefecture's current tourism page.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The official listing identifies it as a shared community bath but does not fully publish water addition, heating, circulation, disinfection or source-flow details.
The bath is mixed-gender, with shared changing space; the outdoor bath can be seen from the surrounding walking path.
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.
