Tsurunoyu

4.4★ · 437 Google ratings · Beppu, Oita · 鶴の湯

Before you go

Can you bathe here?

Day visitors

✓ YesVisitors freely walk in and bathe as day guests at any time, with no entry fee or booking required.stated by 3 visitors · Jul 2025 – Jul 2026

Hours

00:00–24:00from the facility listing

Price

FreeThe outdoor bath is free to use, a point repeatedly praised by visitors from 2025 to 2026.stated by 3 visitors · May 2026 – Sep 2026

Bathing arrangement

Mixed bathingThe bath is mixed-gender (konyoku); some women reported wearing swimsuits while men often bathe nude.stated by 3 visitors · Oct 2025 – May 2026

Tattoos

Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 39 recent reviews we read

How we know this

Watch out

Bathing arrangement

The bath is mixed-gender (konyoku); some women reported wearing swimsuits while men often bathe nude.

stated by 3 visitors · Oct 2025 – May 2026

Source temperature

One visitor measured the spring water at about 43°C, describing it as quite hot.

stated by 1 visitor · Jul 2026

The bath

What you’ll find

Tsurunoyu is a free, mixed-gender natural sulfur hot spring set outdoors near Beppu, reached via a cemetery path, but the spring often runs dry or lukewarm from around February to June.

Outdoor bath

✓ YesThe bath is an entirely open-air natural spring with no indoor facility.stated by 3 visitors · Apr 2026 – Sep 2026

The water

Free-flowing (kakenagashi)

✓ YesMultiple reviewers confirm the water is genuine unfiltered hot-spring flow (kakenagashi), not recirculated.stated by 3 visitors · Oct 2025 – May 2026

Spring type

SulfurThe spring is identified as a sulfur-type hot spring, with a pale blue tinge and sulfur smell.stated by 2 visitors · Oct 2025 – Jul 2026

Source temperature

43°COne visitor measured the spring water at about 43°C, describing it as quite hot.stated by 1 visitor · Jul 2026

Timing