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Bunka-no-Yu
4.0★ · 25 Google ratings · Beppu, Oita · 文化の湯
Before you go
Can you bathe here?
Day visitors
✓ YesVisitors used it as a 200-yen day-use public bath, but it was closed on Mondays, temporarily shut for Legionella detection in late 2024/early 2025, and permanently closed in April 2025.stated by 3 visitors · May 2024 – May 2025
Hours
Not published in the listing · check the official siteno opening hours in the Google listing
Price
¥200Admission was consistently 200 yen for adults across multiple years before the facility closed.stated by 3 visitors · May 2024 – Dec 2024
Tattoos
Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 20 recent reviews we read or on the facility's website
Watch out
Day visitors
Visitors used it as a 200-yen day-use public bath, but it was closed on Mondays, temporarily shut for Legionella detection in late 2024/early 2025, and permanently closed in April 2025.
stated by 3 visitors · May 2024 – May 2025Hair dryer
No hair dryer was available, though an outlet could be used, according to visitors from 2022 to 2024.
stated by 3 visitors · May 2022 – Oct 2024Lockers
Lockers required a 50-yen coin that was returned after use.
stated by 2 visitors · Feb 2024 – Oct 2024Soap & shampoo
No shampoo or body soap was provided at the bath.
stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Oct 2024The bath
What you’ll find
Bunka-no-Yu was a small public hot-spring bathhouse in Beppu with a 200-yen simple thermal spring, kakenagashi flow, and no soap or dryer, but it permanently closed in April 2025.
The water
Free-flowing (kakenagashi)
✓ YesThe bath used a genuine kakenagashi (flow-through) water supply according to 2020 and 2022 visitors.stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2020 – Jun 2022
Spring type
Simple thermal spring (tanjun-sen)The water was described as a simple thermal spring (tanjun-sen) in 2022 and 2024 reviews.stated by 2 visitors · Jun 2022 – May 2024
Source temperature
45°CThe source spring temperature was reported as about 45°C in 2022.stated by 1 visitor · Jun 2022
Practical
What to bring
Payment
✓ Cards & QR acceptedCash and PayPay (QR code) payments were both accepted.stated by 2 visitors · Oct 2024 – Dec 2024
Soap & shampoo
Not provided — bring your ownNo shampoo or body soap was provided at the bath.stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Oct 2024
Lockers
✓ Coin returnedLockers required a 50-yen coin that was returned after use.stated by 2 visitors · Feb 2024 – Oct 2024
Hair dryer
NoNo hair dryer was available, though an outlet could be used, according to visitors from 2022 to 2024.stated by 3 visitors · May 2022 – Oct 2024
Practical
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