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Take-no-Yu
2.8★ · 6 Google ratings · Minakami, Gunma · 竹の湯
✓ Natural hot-spring water✓ Free-flowing source water
Before you go
Can you bathe here?
Day visitors
Local residents onlyFive reviews describe the bath as restricted to local residents (and, per two reviews, guests of affiliated inns who borrow a key), with outsiders explicitly turned away.stated by 5 visitors · Dec 2022 – Apr 2026
Tattoos
Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 6 recent reviews we read or on the facility's website
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Day visitors
Five reviews describe the bath as restricted to local residents (and, per two reviews, guests of affiliated inns who borrow a key), with outsiders explicitly turned away.
stated by 5 visitors · Dec 2022 – Apr 2026The bath
What you’ll find
A tiny communal bathhouse (kyodo-yokujo) in Yujuku Onsen reserved for local residents and lodging guests, with scalding-hot calcium-rich source water that day-trippers cannot access without a local connection.
The water
Spring type
CalciumOne reviewer identifies the water as a calcium-type spring, very hot but leaving skin feeling smooth.stated by 1 visitor · Oct 2024
Guide
What visitors add
For foreign visitors
This bath is effectively closed to general tourists: four distinct reviews (2022-2026) describe it as locals-only or locals-and-staying-guests-only, with one noting a posted sign in Nov 2024 saying only bathing-association members may use it. The one reviewer who did bathe (Oct 2024) got in by borrowing a key from the ryokan they were staying at and making a donation.
stated by 5 visitors · Dec 2022 – Apr 2026The water
One reviewer describes the water as a calcium spring typical of Yujuku Onsen; three distinct reviews mention the water being hot, one saying it was too hot to get in at all.
stated by 3 visitors · Jul 2023 – Apr 2026Price
No fixed admission price is reported; one reviewer entered by making a donation (with a key borrowed from their inn), and another says outsiders could formerly use it in exchange for a donation before access was restricted.
stated by 2 visitors · Oct 2024 – Nov 2024Practical
Plan your visit
📍 497 Yujukuonsen, Minakami, Tone District, Gunma 379-1409
🚃 Jomo-Kogen station, 5.7 km
📋 Show at the counter: 竹の湯
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