Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima
Sabako-yu Public Bath
The first bath to consider if you want Iizaka's best-known historic public bath and only plan to visit one. If you prefer a choice of water temperatures, start with Hakoyu instead. Sabako-yu does not provide free shampoo or soap.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 06:00–21:00; last admission 20:40. Adult admission ¥400; children aged one to under 12 ¥200. The research file records a weekly closure but does not preserve the weekday; it notes that the bath opens on Monday public holidays and does not take a substitute closure.
- Tattoo policy
- No current tattoo policy was confirmed in the research file. Ask the operator before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 51.0°C at the source/distribution tank; not the bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring classification
- Alkaline, hypotonic spring, according to an analysis from February 2005 cited by the Iizaka Onsen Tourism Association.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Current public-bath pages list source and distribution-tank details but do not provide a complete pool-by-pool treatment table for dilution, heating, circulation and disinfection.
The 51.0°C source figure is not a fixed bath temperature. Free shampoo and soap are not provided.
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.
