Shirabu Onsen, Yonezawa, Yamagata
Shirabu Onsen Higashiya
A waterfall bath and outdoor pools for a first Shirabu visit
Property overview
Overview
Higashiya combines its signature waterfall bath with gender-separated outdoor baths where the inn describes seasonal greenery, autumn color and snow views. The current day-use offer includes bath amenities, and recent renovation work updated the changing area and indoor-bath showers. Its September closing dates are more specific than the tourism association's older weekly schedule.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published for Higashiya; the wider area's roughly 60°C figures are not substituted
- Bathing temperature
- Not published
- Spring source
- Shirabu Onsen water; the inn's current text pages do not identify a dedicated Higashiya well
- Spring classification
- Calcium sulfate spring; the Shirabu Onsen association also describes the wider area as sulfur-bearing calcium sulfate water
- pH
- Not published for the inn
- Flow rate
- Not published for the inn; the association's 1,500 L/min figure is for Shirabu Onsen as a whole
- Water handling
- The inn explicitly describes the day-use baths as 100% free-flowing. Bath-by-bath water addition, heating, recirculation and disinfection details are not itemized on the current text pages.
Bathing indications
The inn lists general bathing indications for the sulfate spring. This does not guarantee a treatment effect.
Day use is 11:00–16:00, adult admission ¥700 and child admission ¥350. Follow the inn's latest dated closure notice; it differs from the association's standing Monday-and-Tuesday closure listing. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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Check the last leg of the journey.
In the Shirabu Onsen village, about 900 m above sea level. The final trip from Yonezawa is a mountain approach; check current bus times or arrange a car before leaving the city.
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