Akakura Wakui Hotel (Day-Use Onsen)
A ¥600 afternoon soak in free-flowing Akakura spring water
Property overview
Overview
Wakui Hotel is a practical low-cost choice for a single bath in Akakura Onsen. Its current bath page says the natural water is free-flowing, with one larger, hotter pool and one smaller, cooler pool in each bath area. There is no confirmed day-use outdoor bath or sauna, and the property does not publish fixed pool temperatures.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published for the hotel; the district's 40–60°C range is not substituted
- Bathing temperature
- Not published; the hotel describes one pool as hotter and the smaller pool as cooler
- Spring source
- Shared Akakura Onsen spring water carried from the northern Jigokudani area of Mount Myoko; the hotel's exact intake point is not confirmed
- Spring classification
- Calcium-magnesium-sodium sulfate-bicarbonate spring, according to the Akakura Onsen association
- pH
- Not published for the hotel; the district's neutral classification is not used as a fixed property value
- Flow rate
- Not published for the hotel; the district's total output of about 3,400 L/min is not substituted
- Water handling
- The hotel's current bath page explicitly describes the water as natural and free-flowing. Its main configuration is one indoor bath for each sex; another hotel bath page describes a larger hotter pool and smaller cooler pool. Current pages do not list a full bath-by-bath breakdown of water addition, heating, recirculation or disinfection.
Bathing indications
The hotel and local association list general bathing indications for Akakura Onsen. This is travel information, not a guarantee of treatment or beauty benefits.
Day use is 15:00–20:00 year-round; adult admission ¥600 and child admission ¥350. Morning is reserved for cleaning. A ¥500 gallery discount is not treated as a current standard benefit because the hotel homepage says gallery access is for overnight guests. Do not assume a free shuttle for ordinary day visitors. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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Meals
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Reachable by municipal bus on the Akakura route from Myoko-Kogen Station. The hotel lists a station shuttle in accommodation-related information; confirm before assuming it is available to ordinary day visitors.
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