Nagano Nagawa Town
A full-scale hagama-buro with 100% free-flowing natural spring water, and a panoramic hot spring with views of Mt. Tateshina
"Nagato Onsen Yasuragi no Yu" is a day-use bath facility in Nagawa Town, Chiisagata District, Nagano Prefecture. Located next to the roadside station Marumero no Eki Nagato along National Route 152, it offers outstanding convenience. Its highlight is a spacious public bath with an open, expansive feel, where you can enjoy grand views of Mt. Eboshi to the north and Mt. Tateshina to the south through large windows. The water is a sodium sulfate hot spring, a silky beauty bath that gently removes dead skin cells. In the open-air area, you will find the facility's signature hagama-buro and okeburo, both 100% free-flowing baths, letting you enjoy fresh spring water to yourself. A sauna scented with wood, a crisply cold cold plunge bath, and outdoor air baths with a river breeze are also major attractions.
A large bath with a full glass view of the grand mountains of Mt. Eboshi and Mt. Tateshina. The spring quality is a sodium sulfate hot spring with a faint silky texture from bicarbonates, giving it a gentle bathing feel that seems to cling to the skin. It helps remove old dead skin cells while leaving the body deeply warmed, moisturized, and slow to cool, making it a highly capable beauty and skin-conditioning hot spring.
Luxury single-person hagama-buro and okeburo baths lined up in the open-air area. These lavish tubs let you enjoy 100% fresh Nagato Onsen spring water in a free-flowing style with heat applied only. Carefully kept at a slightly lukewarm temperature, they offer an exceptional relaxation experience that invites you to unwind into a peaceful doze while feeling the pleasant mountain breeze and the sound of the river.
A mild, medium-temperature dry sauna with the warmth of wood. With no TV and a quiet, calm atmosphere, you can work up a gentle, pleasant sweat at your own pace. The two-tier bench layout lets you sit at your preferred temperature and fully refresh away the fatigue and stress of daily life.
A compact cold plunge bath located right in front of the sauna room. It is always filled with clean cold water, providing a sharp, refreshing chill that cools the body down immediately after sauna use. Its pleasantly brisk temperature is addictive, making hot-cold contrast bathing especially enjoyable.
[Day-use bathing] 10:00–21:30 (last admission 21:00) *Closed every Tuesday (open if Tuesday falls on a national holiday)
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JAPAN'S FINEST ONSEN & SAUNA
The Finest Onsen & Sauna in Japan
64 SELECTIONS
Most of what we surveyed never even made it onto this site. This book is a further cut from what did. Our editor bathed in every onsen and sauna in it, and wrote only what they confirmed on the ground.
