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Prefectures / Gunma

Shima Seiryu no Yu

中之条町営 四万清流の湯 · Shima Onsen

Policy not published (day visit)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

This is the question we built the site around, so we answer it per situation.

Visiting for the day

They have not said

The tattoo policy is not stated publicly. Please contact the facility.

How it scores

Every onsen on this site is scored on the same five things.

ViewWaterComfortSettingAccess

Rated from research

View3
Water3.5
Comfort3.5
Setting4
Access3
△Somewhere to sit — A small rest area
△Anything else nearby — Nearby, but off to one side

The straightforward, cheap way to bathe in Shima water without booking an inn: a town-run bathhouse on the riverbank with indoor and open-air tubs and a lounge that opens onto a terrace above the water. The spring is a mild chloride-sulphate rather than anything dramatic, and the shortened hours make an evening visit unreliable at present.

Scored from official photos, maps and transport information — not from a visit.

The baths

Indoor bath

Town-run day-use bathhouse in a traditional-style building on the bank of the Shima River. The water is a sodium-calcium chloride/sulphate spring - Shima's water is the gentle, skin-softening counterpart to Kusatsu's fierce acid, and was historically called Kusatsu's 'finishing bath', where people went to recover their skin after a Kusatsu cure.

Open to day visitors

Open-air bath

Open-air baths as well as indoor ones; guide listings name two open-air tubs (Hyotan-no-yu and Oborozuki-no-yu) and two indoor tubs (Ogi-no-yu and Yabane-no-yu), but the town's own page does not itemise them. Below the lounge the ground drops to a riverside terrace where you can cool off in the wind off the Shima River.

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
Nominally 10:00-20:00, but currently on shortened hours of 10:00-17:00 (last entry 16:30)
Day visit price
¥600
600 yen for adults for a two-hour visit (children and disabled visitors 400 yen); each extra hour is 300 yen for adults. An evening rate from 17:00 is also 600 yen. A ten-visit book is 4,000 yen. Closed the 4th Wednesday of every month, with separate year-end closures. Check the shortened hours before travelling - the town lists 10:00-17:00 as current.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
On the Shima River in Shima Onsen. From JR Nakanojo Station take the Kan-Etsu Kotsu bus about 40 minutes towards the Shima Onsen terminus. There is a ramp, but the toilets are western-style without wheelchair fittings, so a helper is needed.
Official website
www.town.nakanojo.gunma.jp/soshiki/9/1367.html

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Staying nearby

Where to stay in Shima OnsenBooking.com ↗

What we have not confirmed

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