Hyogo Ashiya City
A superb seaside resort spa with natural onsen water fed straight from the source and three authentic saunas
Shioashiya Onsen SPA SUISYUN is a day-use onsen bathhouse in Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. Its saunas are varied: a löyly sauna whose far-infrared heater gives off powerful waves of heat, a salt sauna wrapped in the scent of Chinese herbal medicine and a meditation sauna for men only. After a good sweat, you can refresh deeply in a crisp cold plunge and by cooling off in the open air in a pleasant sea breeze. In the main open-air rock bath, you can savor a natural chloride onsen that holds heat well, fed straight from the source and never recirculated. With a vast warm-stone area, recliners overlooking the marina and a restaurant as well, you can spend blissful hours all day long.

An open-air rock bath where you can savor Shiosai-no-Yu, welling up from deep underground. It is a chloride-bicarbonate spring gentle on the skin that keeps you from getting chilled after bathing and holds heat well. The upper bath offers the luxury of unheated water fed straight from the source, never recirculated. Feel the sea breeze and give your whole body to the freshly drawn hot spring water, and the fatigue of daily life melts away from the core.

An authentic high-temperature sauna heated by a far-infrared stove, where you feel powerful heat. On the hour, every hour, automatic löyly kicks in, sending waves of heat through the whole room and bringing on a sweat all at once. Quietly watching TV, you can enjoy deep relaxation as your whole body slowly loosens.

A salt sauna wrapped in the rich scent of a blend of 10 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs. Rub salt over your body and warm up slowly, and old dead skin comes away, leaving your skin glossy. Large bursts of steam at regular intervals add to the show, and with the heat and scent you can pleasantly feel a whole-body detox.

A meditation space for the men’s bath only, where you can turn inward in silence. The löyly is one you pour yourself: pour water over the sauna stones whenever you like and create the humidity and heat you prefer. Empty your mind and savor the ultimate immersion.

A crisp, refreshing cold plunge that quickly tightens pores opened in the sauna. After a thorough cool-down, it is an easy move to the totonou chairs in the open-air area. Cooling off in the open air in the fresh sea breeze is superb and leads you into a deep totonou.

A vast warm-stone area where you can detox across a range of themes, from rooms of many kinds of natural stone to a rock-salt room of striking contrasts. Relaxing at leisure in the wear provided, you can warm up to the core with the effect of far-infrared rays. There is also an ice room to cool a flushed body quickly and an open terrace with a tropical-resort feel, and you can enjoy it all with no time limit.
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Shuttle bus
Parking for 200 cars. Bicycle parking available. The shuttle bus stops are a 5-minute walk from the east exit of Hanshin Ashiya Station, about 3 minutes’ walk from the south exit of Hankyu Shukugawa Station and about 1 minute’s walk from Hanshin Uchide Station. The shuttle bus is for Suisyun guests only.
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