Shima Onsen, Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture
Sekizenkan Genroku-no-Yu Day Visit
Choose this bath for the architecture and the Genroku-era bath itself, not for the number of facilities. Its value lies in a room you cannot experience elsewhere.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Usually 10:00–17:30; last admission 17:00.
- Tattoo policy
- Permitted only when tattoos are completely covered with an appropriate cover seal.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- The spring used by Sekizenkan; the current official page does not publish the individual source name for Genroku-no-Yu.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium chloride-sulfate spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Day visitors may use Genroku-no-Yu only. The inn describes five stone baths with water emerging from openings in their floors, but the current page does not specify water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection for the day-use baths. Conditions for the inn's other baths and private baths are not applied to day visitors.
Bathing indications
The inn lists general bathing indications for rheumatic conditions, motor-system disorders, wounds and chronic conditions. These are not treatment guarantees.
The five stone baths receive water through openings in their floors. Other treatment details are not published for the day-use bath.
Admission is ¥1,500 for adults and ¥1,100 for children aged 3–12. A face towel is included; bath-towel rental costs ¥550. Day visitors are limited to Genroku-no-Yu, the footbath and the post-bath lounge; Mori-no-Yu, Sansō-no-Yu and private baths are for overnight guests.
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.
