Misasa Onsen, Tottori Prefecture
Misasa Onsen Kawara Bath
A free riverside open-air bath for travellers comfortable with mixed bathing, limited privacy and simple changing facilities. It is an unusually open experience, not a substitute for a gender-separated bathhouse.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Generally open 24 hours year-round. The bath is unavailable during cleaning on odd-numbered mornings; Tottori tourism information gives the cleaning window as roughly 07:00–12:00.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed temperature is published. Dated winter visitor accounts describe differences between areas of the pool; these are not year-round settings.
- Spring classification
- Part of Misasa Onsen's natural radioactive-spring system. The facility's current page does not publish a separate analysis that can be assigned specifically to Kawara Bath.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The current tourism-association page does not specify water addition, heating, circulation, disinfection or source-flow conditions by pool. Third-party listings are not treated as a current official guarantee.
This is a mixed-gender riverside bath with little privacy or changing cover. Water temperature can feel different around the pool, especially in winter.
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.
