Niigata Shibata City
An inn where you can totonou with an exceptional private spring and a free-flowing natural cold spring cold plunge bath
Tsukioka Onsen Fūrinya is a hot spring hotel in Tsukioka Onsen, Shibata City, Niigata Prefecture. Its emerald-green private spring, renowned as a beauty-enhancing bath, is mildly alkaline and rich in sulfur, with a smooth, soft texture. Guests can fully enjoy luxurious bathing in the indoor bath and open-air bath. The hotel also features a stylishly renovated sauna room completed in January 2026. After the sauna, a one-person private cold water bath is provided, using an abundant free-flowing supply of its own spring water, a natural cold spring, offering a blissful cool-down experience available only here.
Generously uses the abundant private spring water that wells up from the land of Tsukioka. Rich in sulfur, this mildly alkaline water has a smooth texture and is known as a beauty bath because it gently removes unwanted dead skin cells and leaves the skin silky smooth. It warms you thoroughly to the core, and the comforting warmth lingers even after you step out of the bath. Enjoy the ultimate relaxation in the atmosphere-rich indoor bath and open-air bath filled with drifting steam.
A dry sauna adjoining the large bath. It was stylishly and comfortably renovated in January 2026 into a more refined relaxation space. In a pleasant room with the gentle scent of wood in the air, you can enjoy heat that is mild yet warms you all the way to your core. Wrapped in soft lighting, this quiet space lets you savor blissful sweating and meditation at a leisurely pace.
A one-person private cold water bath that uses untreated private spring water, a natural cold spring, drawn luxuriously in free flow from deep underground. The mellow, gentle cold spring water softly envelops your body, letting you enjoy a level of smoothness and refreshment you could never get from tap water. In your own private space, you can have the freshest spring water all to yourself and experience the ultimate cool-down.
[Day-use bathing] 15:00-23:00 (last admission 22:00)
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