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Iwai Onsen

Little knownBarely documented in English. This is the kind of place the site exists for.

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Iwai OnsenyukamuriIwamipublic bathSan'in

Illustration of Iwai Onsen, 鳥取県 — イメージイラスト（写真ではありません）

Iwai is among the oldest hot springs in the San'in region, with about thirteen hundred years of recorded use, and it has kept a custom that exists nowhere else: yukamuri. You sit in the bath with a folded towel on your head, take a long-handled wooden ladle, and pour water over your own head while singing the yukamuri song. It began, by tradition, because the water was too hot to enter and pouring it over the head was the way to acclimatise.

The village is small — a handful of inns along a stream in a valley behind the Iwami coast — and the public bathhouse, Yukamuri Onsen, is the practical way to try it. It costs ¥400, is open from six in the morning until ten at night, and does not close. Ladles are provided. Whether you sing is between you and the other bathers.

基本情報

営業時間

Yukamuri Onsen 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM

定休日: Open year-round

料金

Yukamuri Onsen ¥400 | Inn day bathing from around ¥310

ベストシーズン

Year-round | Winter for the hot water

滞在目安

1–1.5 hours

アクセス

アクセス情報

Iwai, Iwami, Iwami District. By local bus from JR Iwami Station. Admission ¥400. Individual inns also offer day bathing, from around ¥310.

インサイダーガイド

**Do the yukamuri.** Towel on the head, ladle in hand, water poured over yourself. The ladles are in the bathhouse and the custom is why the place is distinctive rather than merely old. **Sixteen hours a day, every day.** Six in the morning to ten at night with no closing day, at ¥400. That is unusually generous for a public bath. **The water is hot.** The custom exists because it was too hot to get straight into. Acclimatise rather than plunging. **It is ten minutes from the coast.** Iwami has the Uradome coast, and combining a morning on the sea cliffs with an afternoon here is the standard local pairing. **Very small.** A handful of inns and one public bath along a stream. There is no onsen street to browse.

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