Shouninyu

4.2★ · 65 Google ratings · Beppu, Oita · 上人湯(しょうにんゆ)

✓ Natural hot-spring water✓ Free-flowing source water

Before you go

Can you bathe here?

Day visitors

Limited hoursNon-member day visitors are allowed only 10am-5pm since a 2023 rule change, though earlier reviews (2021, 2023-02) describe periods when outside visitors were refused, including a COVID-era ban.stated by 3 visitors · Feb 2023 – Jul 2026

Hours

10:00–17:00from the facility listing

Price

¥100Admission has consistently been 100 yen paid into an offering box at the entrance from 2020 through 2026.stated by 16 visitors · Jul 2020 – Jul 2026

Tattoos

Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 36 recent reviews we read

How we know this

Watch out

Day visitors

Non-member day visitors are allowed only 10am-5pm since a 2023 rule change, though earlier reviews (2021, 2023-02) describe periods when outside visitors were refused, including a COVID-era ban.

stated by 3 visitors · Feb 2023 – Jul 2026

Payment

Payment is made by dropping a 100 yen coin into an offering box at the entrance; no card or digital payment is mentioned.

stated by 3 visitors · Feb 2025 – Jul 2026

Indoor baths

The facility has a single small indoor bath tub that fills up with just three bathers.

stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Feb 2025

The bath

What you’ll find

Shouninyu is a tiny 100-yen neighborhood public bath (kyodo-yokujo) in Kannawa, Beppu, traditionally reserved for local union members but now open to visitors from 10am to 5pm; bring your own soap, coins for the offering-box fee, and expect no lockers.

Indoor baths

1The facility has a single small indoor bath tub that fills up with just three bathers.stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Feb 2025

The water

Spring type

Sodium chloride spring (sulfate-chloride type)The spring is described as a sodium-chloride (sulfate-chloride) type hot spring fed from the Kinryu Jigoku source.stated by 4 visitors · Jan 2025 – Mar 2026

Source temperature

86°CThe source water temperature was measured at 86°C by one visitor.stated by 1 visitor · Feb 2025

pH 4.3The spring water pH was recorded as 4.3.stated by 1 visitor · Feb 2025

Practical

What to bring

Payment

Cash onlyPayment is made by dropping a 100 yen coin into an offering box at the entrance; no card or digital payment is mentioned.stated by 3 visitors · Feb 2025 – Jul 2026

Timing