[Nigorikawa Onsen in Mori] Day Trip Onsen Can Be Enjoyed at Caldera

Shineikan

Shineikan is a small-sized long-established onsen ryokan founded in 1900, and is a little far from Hokkaido Road 778. A building passed for nearly 100 years, and the appearance and the interior decoration are quite shibui. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 400. They have 2 buildings, Old Building and New Building. A staying is possible, too, and it seems to stay a new building. A public bathhouse for men is a mixed bathing bath on the 1st basement of Old Building, and a public bathhouse for women is at New Building. The bathhouse for women is relatively new, so the bathhouse for men is popular for women, too. I think that women is hard to take a bath while men take a bath, so enjoy the shibui indoor baths if men do not take a bath at the bathhouse for men.

The bathhouse for men has been used for 100 years, too, and hot spring ingredients have precipitated on bathtubs and a floor of the bathhouse, and these are petrified. Fresh hot springs flow freely, and the floor changes to a river. That is amazing! In Japan, it will be a few onsen that there is the natural world at the bathhouse.

There are 3 indoor baths at the public bathhouse for men, and those indoor baths different in water temperature. The indoor bath with the hotest spring is the size that about 3 people can take a bath. The hottest spring was considerable hot, and I was not able to take a bath. Therefore I regulated temperature with water from a hose. Because modern bathing facilities are not installed, bathers may feel inconvenience, but the indoor baths are full of freshness and surprising. The others are the size that 1 pesron can take a bath, and the water temperature is suitable for bathing. A shower is not installed at the bathroom, so you must pour the hot springs on yourself to rinse off your surface dirt and sweat before entering the bath.

The hot springs are sodium chloride bicarbonate spring, and are a little opaque and light green and have a little salty taste and a little oil smell. Shampoos and soaps are not provided at the bathhouse, too. Because there is not a restroom at a dressing room, you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom along a corridor.

Atmosphere of Shineikan Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Shineikan

Onsen Ryokan Chuo-so

Onsen Ryokan Chuo-so is a small-sized onsen ryokan along Hokkaido Road 778 in rice fields. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 350. A staying is possible, too. There is 1 indoor bath at a public bathroom. The bath uses 100 % natural free flowing hot springs. The hot springs are sodium bicarbonate chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 2.165 g/kg. Body soaps are provided at the bathroom. A free hair dryer is installed at a dressing room. A restroom is not provided at the dressing room, so you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom along a corridor.

Atmosphere of Chuo-so Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Chuo-so

MotoYu Shinsenkan Nikori-no-Yu

Motoyu Shinsenkan Nikori-no-Yu is a long-established hot spring facility for day trip bath at an entrance of Nigorigawa Onsen, and opened a business since 1807, and is the oldest hot spring facility in the Nigorigawa Onsen, and is one of 18 onsen facilities that the Japan Association of Secluded Onsen Heritage (日本温泉遺産を守る会) will recognize the hot spring facilities using fresh free flowing hot springs in Hokkaido. A building was renewed in 1994. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 550. They do not accept a hotel guest or serving meals at present.

There are 1 outdoor bath and 3 indoor baths at a public bathhouse. The baths use 100 % natural free flowing hot springs. The hot springs are sodium and magnesium bicarbonate chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 2.754 g/kg. The meta-silicic acid content is 201.8 mg/kg. It is said that the hot springs including the meta-silicic acid with over 200 mg/kg is effective for beautiful skin. Unfortunately, a health center will not allow to drink the hot springs. Body soaps are provided at the bathhouse.

Movie of Shinsenkan

Onsen Ryokan Tenyu

Onsen Ryokan Tenyu is a small-sized onsen ryokan founded in 1989 near the center of Nigorigawa Onsen. A restaurant is at the building, too, and visitors for day trip bath can use it. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 400. A staying is possible, too. There are 2 indoor baths at a public bathhouse. The baths use 100 % natural free flowing hot springs. The hot springs are sodium bicarbonate chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 2.458 g/kg. Shampoos and body soaps are provided at the bathhouse.

[Closed Business] Onsen Ryokan Mikanseni

Onsen Ryokan Mikanseni is a small-sized onsen ryokan founded in 1964 along Hokkaido Road 778, and they accept 1 hotel guest group per a day. A building was renewed in 2000. Its name was named after their wish that hotel guests eat a lot of tasty dishes, and enjoy bathing, and relax themselves, and are beautiful perfectly, before going home. A restaurant is at the building, too, and visitors for day trip bath can use it. A footbath for dogs is installed on the site. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 400. Unfortunately, they have closed down their business since 2021.

There are 1 open-air bath and 1 indoor bath at a public bathroom. The baths use 100 % natural free flowing hot springs. The hot springs are sodium bicarbonate chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. Soaps are provided at the bathroom. A cold water machine is provided at a dressing room.

Movie of Onsen Ryokan Mikanseni

[Closed Business] Goshiki-no-Yu

Goshiki-no-Yu (五色の湯) is a small-sized onsen ryokan along Hokkaido Road 778 in the center of the Nigorigawa Onsen. They do not accept reservations for rooms at present. An okami is going into hospital, so her daughter manages the ryokan. But she is working on weekdays, and it opens a business for almost Saturday, Sunday, and National holiday. It is an opening sign that a gray vehicle parks on the side of the building. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 300. Unfortunately, they have closed down their business.

A public bathroom is a reserved bathing, and is not so large. But 100% natural free flowing hot springs are overflowing from bathtubs, and hot spring ingredients are piled up on the floor and the surface of the bathtubs, and those are very good feeling. I guess that onsen power is strong.

There are 2 indoor baths at the public bathroom. The one is the semicircular bathtub, and is the size that about 4 people can take a bath. The other is the rectangle bathtub, and is the size that a person can take a bath. This bathtub is nearer a hot spring source than another one, so the hot spring is too hot. Oil slick is formed on the surface of the hot springs. But she told me “Please do not enter the small indoor bath because it is not cleaned”.

The hot springs are sulfur and sodium calcium bicarbonate chloride spring, and are opaque and light green and have metallic taste and oil smell. The hot spring seemed to be drinkable, so those tasted like mud, and seemed to be effective for Chronic digestive diseases, Chronic constipation, Diabetes, Gout, Liver disease and Constipation. Shampoos and body soaps for visitors are not provided at the bathroom, the visitors have to bring those. A shower is broken, so you must pour the hot springs on yourself to rinse off your surface dirt and sweat before entering the bath. There is not a restroom at a dressing room, so you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom at a corridor.

Atmosphere of Goshiki-no-Yu Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Goshiki-no-Yu

[Closed Business] Caldera Onsen Fureai-no-Sato

Caldera Onsen Fureai-no-Sato is a small-sized onsen hotel founded in 1995 along Hokkaido Road 778 at the most remote of the entrance of Nigorigawa Onsen, and is the largest hot-spring facility in Nigorigawa Onsen, and is well-known for various baths, and is famous for an open-air bath beside a garden. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 500. A staying is possible, too. Unfortunately, they have closed down their business since October, 2019.

They have 2 buildings, Main Building (本館) and New Building (新館), and large public bathhouses are on the 1st floor of the Main building. They have 4 large public bathhouses for men or women, Large Public Bathhouse (大浴場), Large Public Bathhouse with Cypress Bath (檜風呂浴場), First Open-air Bathhouse (第一露天風呂) and Second Open-air Bathhouse (第二露天風呂). There are 1 indoor bath, 1 whirlpool bath, 1 sleeping bath, 1 cold bath and 1 sauna at the Large Public Bathhouse. There are 1 cypress bath, 1 indoor bath surrounded by rocks and 1 sleeping bath at the Large Public Bathhouse with Cypress Bath. The indoor bath surrounded by rocks is only at the bathhouse for men. The indoor baths use (1)sodium bicarbonate chloride spring, and the whirlpool bath and the sleeping bath use heated water.

There are 1 open-air bath surrounded by rocks, 1 open-air bath and 1 open-air walking bath at the First Open-air Bathhouse. There are 1 open-air bath surrounded by rocks beside the garden at the Second Open-air Bathhouse. The open-air baths use (2)sodium chloride spring. The Second Open-air Bathhouse is closed in a winter.

They have 2 types of the hot springs. One is (1)sodium bicarbonate chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 1.837 g/kg. The other is (2)sodium chloride spring, are opaque and light green and have a little salty and oil smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 3.525 g/kg. Soaps are provided at the bathhouse. A restroom and free hair dryers are installed at a dressing room.

Types of Hot Springs	(1)Sodium bicarbonate chloride spring (Type: Neutral, Osmotic Pressure: Low, Spring Temperature Type: Extra hot spring) (2)Sodium chloride spring (Type: Neutral, Osmotic Pressure: Low, Spring Temperature Type: Extra hot spring)
Water temperature of Hot Spring Source	(1)44.5 C (2)59.3 C
ph	(1)7.2 (2)6.8
Indications	Neuralgia, Muscular pain, Arthralgia, Relieving fatigue, Cold sensitivity, Bruise, Chronic digestive diseases, Skin diseases, Cut, Burn, Chronic women’s diseases
Contraindications	Acute disease(when there is the heat in particular), Active tuberculosis, Malignant tumor, Severe heart disease, Respiratory failure, Renal insufficiency, Hemorrhagic disease, High anemia, Other diseases during condition of a patient progress generally
Indications of drinking	Not drinking
Facilities	Open-air bath(4), Indoor bath(6 or 7), Sauna(1). * Sex-Segregated Bathhouse.
Entrance fee to the bath facility	Adult: JPY 500. Child: JPY 250.
Business hours	10:00-21:00
Regular closing day	Open all year round
Parking lot	A free parking is provided (50 cars)
Telephone number	+81-1374-7-2000
Home page	Home page is here
Reservation	Jalan is here
Mapcode	687 142 064*37