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Kitsuregawa Onsen Municipal Open-Air Bath (Bath No. 2)

喜連川温泉 市営露天風呂（第2温泉浴場） · Kitsuregawa Onsen

Policy not published (day visit)

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Visiting for the day

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View3
Water4
Comfort3
Setting3
Access2
×Somewhere to sit — Bathe and leave
△Anything else nearby — Nearby, but off to one side

A single enormous rock pool of free-flowing Kitsuregawa water for 400 yen, which is about as much bath per yen as Kanto offers. The city says it holds 50 people at once, and it is the only one of the town's municipal baths where the source is explicitly run to waste rather than recirculated. The trade-off is that there is nothing else here: no indoor bath, and the city states plainly that there is no rest room. It was shut for a spell and reopened on 21 August 2026.

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The baths

Open-air bath

One very large rock-built open-air bath, free-flowing from the source, big enough for 50 bathers at once. There are no indoor baths and no rest room - you come, you soak, you leave.

Open to day visitors

Practical details

Day visits
Yes — you can bathe without staying overnight.
9:00-21:00 (last entry 20:00). Closed on the third Monday of each month.
Day visit price
¥400
Junior-high age and up 400 yen, primary-school children 200 yen, pre-school children free. The bath reopened on 21 August 2026 after a period of closure.
Staying overnight
No
Getting there
At 871-1 Kitsuregawa, Sakura City, a separate building from the Motoyu bath. Kitsuregawa has no railway station: take a bus from Ujiie Station on the JR Utsunomiya Line, about 20 minutes, or drive.
Official website
www.city.tochigi-sakura.lg.jp/sightseeing/000039/000234/p003178.html

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