Kawayu Onsen, Teshikaga, Hokkaido
Kawayu Public Bath Yukichi
Yukichi is a good-value way to experience Kawayu's strongly acidic water in a local public bath. Bring your own toiletries and check the Wednesday closure before setting out.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Open 11:00–19:00, last admission 18:00. Closed Wednesdays. Admission is ¥500 for adults and ¥300 for children. Bring toiletries or buy them on site; shampoo, conditioner and body wash are not included by default.
- Tattoo policy
- The current main first-party pages checked do not confirm a tattoo policy. Ask the bathhouse before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published
- Bathing temperature
- Not published
- Spring source
- Kawayu Onsen natural spring water; the current public tourism page does not identify an individual source for Yukichi
- Spring classification
- Strongly acidic natural hot spring. A current complete property-specific analysis is not published, so district figures and older bathhouse analyses are not substituted.
- pH
- Not published for the facility; the district figure of about pH 1.7 is not assigned to Yukichi
- Flow rate
- Not published
- Water handling
- The public bath reopened after renovation in September 2024 and includes a shallow pool for children. Current official material does not itemize water addition, heating, circulation or disinfection for each pool.
Bathing indications
Visitors can experience Kawayu's strongly acidic spring in a public bath. Older analyses and visitor notes are not used as current treatment or chemistry claims.
Open 11:00–19:00, last admission 18:00; closed Wednesdays. Admission is ¥500 for adults and ¥300 for children. Bring or purchase toiletries. Tattoo rules are unconfirmed.
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.
