[Gunai Onsen in Shimamaki] Day Trip Bath and Onsen Power That Cure Dying Elephant Hanako Can Be Enjoyed at Gunai Onsen Ryokan

Gunai Onsen Ryokan

Gunai Onsen Ryokan (宮内温泉旅館) is a small-sized long-established onsen ryokan with 6 guest rooms between forests and fields, and has opened a business since 1945. Big Trees that are substitute of a gate are feeling good. The appearance and interior decoration are quite shibui such as Taisho period or Showa period. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 500. A staying is possible, too. They are a farmer, too, and grow rice with using hot springs. Their meals use their rice. In addition, Shimamaki is famous for fishing, and a lot of anglers stay.

There are 1 open-air bath and 2 indoor baths at a public bathroom. The tiled bathroom is not large, but the sunny bathroom is feeling good. Some mossy places are at the bathroom, and make bathers feel small nature. By the way, the hot springs are used as hot water of faucets and showers at wash places.

The small indoor bath is the size that about 2 people can take a bath. 100% natural free flowing hot springs pour into it, and the hot springs are very hot. The large indoor bath is the size that about 3 people can take a bath. The hot springs flow from the small indoor bath, and cool the hot springs, so water temperature is suitable for bathing. It is very comforable. Soft water with abundant nature’s beauty mineral like sulfur, and light brown sinter dances in the hot springs. In addition, watch your step because the bottom of the baths are slippery.

The open-air bath is the size that about 3 poeple can take a bath. The open-air bath is in a mountain, and a sence of openness can be felt. A lot of the hot springs are overflowing from a bathtub. The situation is very comfortable. This bath is suitable for taking a long bath. But a horseflya gadfly may attack you in a summer. By the way, starry sky seems to be beautiful in the evening.

The hot springs are sodium bicarbonate sulfate spring, and are clear and colorless and have a little salty taste and no smell, and have smooth and slippery touch, and are drinkable. It seems to be effective for Chronic digestive diseases, Chronic constipation, Diabetes, Gout, Liver disease, Obesity disease, Arteriosclerosis, Nettle rashhives, Female hormone deficiency. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 1.335 g/kg. Shampoos and body soaps are provided at the bathroom. There is not a restroom at a dressing room, so you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom at a corridor.

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