Yamada Onsen Family Bath

4.3★ · 21 Google ratings · Kusu, Oita · 山田温泉家族湯

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

Before you go

Can you bathe here?

Day visitors

✓ YesListed as a day-use onsen: a bath for day visitors by definition. No visitor review states otherwise.from the facility's listing category

Hours

12:00–22:00 · closed Saturday, Sundayfrom the facility listing

Price

¥1,500Recent reviews from 2024-2025 state a 1500 yen fee for a 50-minute private bath, up from around 1000-1200 yen in 2022-2023.stated by 3 visitors · Mar 2024 – Apr 2025

Private bath

✓ YesMultiple reviewers from 2022-2025 used private family/rental baths (kashikiri) with fresh water for each use.stated by 3 visitors · Sep 2022 – Sep 2025

Time limit

50 minutesPrivate bath use is limited to a 50-minute session according to 2024-2025 reviews.stated by 2 visitors · Dec 2024 – Apr 2025

Tattoos

Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 16 recent reviews we read

How we know this

Watch out

Hair dryer

Hair dryers are not kept in the changing rooms; several reviewers between 2023 and 2025 had to request one from staff or found none available.

stated by 5 visitors · Jan 2023 – Aug 2025

Price

Recent reviews from 2024-2025 state a 1500 yen fee for a 50-minute private bath, up from around 1000-1200 yen in 2022-2023.

stated by 3 visitors · Mar 2024 – Apr 2025

Water added

Reviewers from 2022-2025 consistently added cold water to cool the very hot source water before bathing.

stated by 3 visitors · Dec 2023 – Apr 2025

Free-flowing (kakenagashi)

Each private bath is filled with fresh source water for every guest rather than recirculated water, per 2024 reviews.

stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Dec 2024

Time limit

Private bath use is limited to a 50-minute session according to 2024-2025 reviews.

stated by 2 visitors · Dec 2024 – Apr 2025

The bath

What you’ll find

A coin-operated family bath complex with about ten private rooms fed by very hot source water that bathers must dilute themselves; day-use visitors are welcome, but hair dryers are not provided free.

Rest area

✓ YesA rest area near the reception was mentioned by one reviewer in 2024.stated by 1 visitor · Dec 2024

The water

Free-flowing (kakenagashi)

✓ YesEach private bath is filled with fresh source water for every guest rather than recirculated water, per 2024 reviews.stated by 2 visitors · May 2024 – Dec 2024

Water added

✓ YesReviewers from 2022-2025 consistently added cold water to cool the very hot source water before bathing.stated by 3 visitors · Dec 2023 – Apr 2025

Practical

What to bring

Soap & shampoo

✓ ProvidedShampoo and body soap are supplied in the bathing rooms according to 2023 and 2025 reviews.stated by 2 visitors · Jan 2023 – Aug 2025

Hair dryer

NoHair dryers are not kept in the changing rooms; several reviewers between 2023 and 2025 had to request one from staff or found none available.stated by 5 visitors · Jan 2023 – Aug 2025

Timing