Hotel Kitafukuro (Day-Use Onsen)
A forest-edge outdoor bath fed directly from a pH 1.8 source
Property overview
Overview
Hotel Kitafukuro says it sends spring water directly to the baths without a storage tank and adjusts bath temperature by changing the inflow. The indoor and forest-edge outdoor baths use 100% free-flowing water. The property is currently operating mainly for day-use bathing while equipment work continues.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 53°C at the source
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; the inn says it adjusts temperature by changing the inflow
- Spring source
- The hotel's own-use Kawayu Onsen spring; the current pages do not publish an individual source name
- Spring classification
- Strongly acidic natural hot spring; a complete current chemical classification was not available in the research material checked
- pH
- 1.8
- Flow rate
- Not published
- Water handling
- The inn describes the baths as 100% free-flowing. Spring water goes directly from the source to the baths without a storage tank; inflow is adjusted to control bath temperature. A forest-facing outdoor bath is available.
Bathing indications
The inn highlights Kawayu's strongly acidic water. Its descriptions are spring information, not a promise of antiseptic or skin-treatment effects.
The property is currently operating mainly for day-use bathing while equipment work continues. Adult admission is ¥1,000; elementary- and junior-high students ¥500; preschool children free; a towel set costs ¥300. Hours may change by season. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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Meals
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Check the last leg of the journey.
In the Kawayu Onsen area. From JR Kawayu-Onsen Station, continue by local bus or taxi to the hot-spring district; it is not a station-front property.
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