Shitan-yu Public Bath
下ん湯
A thatched-roof public bath beside Lake Kinrin, semi-open-air and mixed-gender, paid by coin box with no staff; one of Yufuin’s surviving old-style bathhouses.
Shitan-yu is a small thatched-roof bath on the north shore of Lake Kinrin, one of the few public baths in Yufuin that still preserves an old-fashioned look. The bathing pools are semi-open-air, with views of the lakeside trees. The bath is mixed-gender with no separate changing areas. It is unattended, and you pay the coin box at the entrance (about 300 yen). No shampoo or towels are provided, so bring your own. Slippers are placed at the door; please keep quiet and keep the bath clean. Visitors who are uncomfortable with mixed bathing can simply look at this thatched building from the outside, or visit the day-use baths at local inns instead. Transport: about 25 minutes on foot from Yufuin Station; it sits at the end of Yunotsubo Street by the lake.
Opening hours
Approx. 10:00–22:00 (check on-site notices)
Nearby sights
- Yufuin Yunotsubo Street
- Yufuin Floral Village
- Unagihime Shrine
- Yufuin no Mori Train
- Sagiridai Observation Point
- Tsukahara Onsen Kakō-no-Izumi
- Yunohira Onsen