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Prefectures / Kumamoto

Jigoku Onsen Seifuso

地獄温泉 青風荘. · Aso Onsen

Policy not published (day visit)Policy not published (overnight)

Can you bathe here with a tattoo?

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Visiting for the day

They have not said

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

Staying overnight

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

Verified by the editor

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Water5
Comfort4
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Access1
×Somewhere to sit — Bathe and leave
×Anything else nearby — Nothing else around

A 200-year-old bath high on Mt Aso where the water rises through the floor of the tub, unheated and undiluted, with gas bubbling up beside you. Because Suzume-no-yu is mixed-gender and everyone bathes in a supplied garment, the usual awkwardness of a mixed bath — and much of the usual awkwardness about bodies generally — is designed out of it. Nothing here is walkable; you need a car and a mountain road.

Every onsen on this site is scored against the same written rubric, and every score has been reviewed by the editor. The ones marked Visited were also bathed in personally.

The baths

Open-air bath

Suzume-no-yu, the reason people come: a cloudy bath where the water and gas bubble up through the gravel floor of the tub itself. It is mixed-gender and bathed in clothed — everyone wears a supplied yuami garment — which the inn frames as putting old and young, men and women on equal footing. Simple acidic sulphur spring (hydrogen sulphide type).

Open to day visitors

Indoor bath

Moto-no-yu and Tamago-no-yu, simple acidic springs (hypotonic, acidic, high-temperature).

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
10:00-17:00 (last reception 15:00)
Day visit price
¥2,000
2,000 yen adults, 1,800 yen students (junior high to college), 800 yen primary school age. Closed Tuesdays (open if a public holiday), with occasional extra closures. Guests of junior-high age and over are given a rental bathing garment and bath towel in the price; children of primary age and under must bring their own swimwear.
Staying overnight
Yes
from about ¥33,000 per person
Getting there
At 2327 Kayo, Minami-Aso Village, high on the flank of Mt Aso. Access is by car only in practice: from Kumamoto city cross the new Aso Ohashi bridge onto Route 325, turn at the Seven-Eleven Minami-Aso Kayo crossroads and climb a mountain road for about 10 minutes. Roughly 45 minutes from the Kumamoto interchange.
Official website
jigoku-onsen.co.jp

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What we have not confirmed

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