Saitama · Kawagoe
Kuranoyu Koedo Hatsukari Onsen Kawagoe
蔵の湯 小江戸はつかり温泉 川越店
A super-sento 15 minutes by car from Kawagoe's 'Little Edo' warehouse streets, where brown natural spring water pumped from 1,200 m flows freely through both indoor and outdoor tubs. Nine baths per side plus two saunas, a carbonated bath and the signature 'Zabūn' water feature; the Zabūn and Sarasara wings swap between men and women on odd and even days. ¥900 weekdays, ¥1,000 weekends, ¥100 off 8–9 am and after 22:00. Open 8:00–25:00 every day with 200 parking spaces — a proper onsen near Tokyo to end a Kawagoe day.
- Price (adult)
- ¥900
- Hours
- 8:00–1:00 a.m. (last entry 0:30)
- Closed
- Open daily (closes for maintenance)
- Access
- From JR/Tobu Kawagoe Station, Seibu bus to Jōhoku Saitama High School then 15 min on foot, or 15 min by car; 10 min by car from Kawagoe IC
- Water type
- Simple spring
- Tattoos
- Not allowed
- Admission
- Weekdays adults (junior high and up) ¥900, children (4 to elementary) ¥450; weekends and holidays ¥1,000/¥450. Morning bath (enter 8–9 a.m.) ¥800 weekdays, ¥900 weekends. Bedrock bathing +¥500 (outfit included; bath + bedrock set from ¥970). Towel set rental extra, shampoo provided. Member card and app coupon discounts. Restaurant 'Hatsukari' 10:00–23:00; massage, body scrub and barber on site. No tattoos
- Baths
- A large super-sento (opened 2008) on Route 254 in the Kawagoe suburbs. Its signature is the house source, pumped from 1,500 m, split into four tubs at different temperatures — the free-flowing 'Zabuun' bath (around 42°C) and 'Sarasara' bath outdoors, a tepid pool, lying, pot and cave baths, plus plain, jet and electric tubs indoors, a hot sauna (regular loyly events), a salt sauna and a cold plunge. The mixed-gender 'Hatsukari Onnetsu-bo' bedrock-bathing zone has four heated rooms (germanium, medicinal stones etc.) and a cool room, with a manga and rest lounge. The latticed, white-walled 'kura storehouse' building evokes old Kawagoe
- Spring water
- Sodium chloride spring (hypotonic, weakly alkaline), from a private 1,500 m bore; pale yellow-brown to golden and clear, salty and slick, with the salt giving it strong heat-retaining 'warming' power. The 'Zabuun' bath is free-flowing source water; the others combine recirculation. Indicated for joint pain, poor circulation, cuts, chronic gynaecological complaints and fatigue. Springs around Kawagoe draw on 'fossil seawater' beneath the Kanto plain, typically yellow-brown chloride waters, and this one has a comparatively generous flow
- Access & parking
- Free parking for 200. By car about 10 min from Kawagoe IC on the Kan-etsu Expressway via Routes 16 and 254, 15 min from central Kawagoe (the kurazukuri warehouse street). By public transport about 2.8 km from Minami-Furuya Station on the JR Kawagoe Line (33 min walk, 7 min taxi), 10 min by taxi from Kami-Fukuoka or Fujimino on the Tobu Tojo Line, or the Seibu bus from Kawagoe Station to 'Naka-Fukuoka' then a 14-min walk. Far from stations — driving is the norm
- Phone
- 049-230-4126
- Official site
- yuru-to.net ↗
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Why go
- Free-flowing brown water indoors and out
- Nine baths, two saunas, carbonated bath
- 8:00–25:00, ¥900 weekdays
A super-sento outside old Kawagoe with four source tubs at four temperatures
Kura-no-yu Koedo Hatsukari Onsen Kawagoe is a large day-spa (super-sento) on Route 254, fifteen minutes by car from the centre of 'Little Edo' Kawagoe, Saitama, famous for its street of Edo-period storehouses. Opened in 2008, it boasts a golden sodium chloride spring pumped from 1,500 m, and its concept is a 'bath tour' through four tubs of the same source at different temperatures — the free-flowing 'Zabuun' and 'Sarasara' baths, a tepid pool and a lying bath. The outdoor garden adds pot and cave baths, indoors there are jet and electric tubs plus hot and salt saunas with regular loyly events, and for ¥500 extra the 'Onnetsu-bo' bedrock zone offers four heated rooms and a manga lounge good for half a day. The latticed, white-walled 'kura' building mimics Kawagoe's townscape. Open 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day at a modest ¥900 on weekdays, with parking for 200, it suits a drive from Tokyo or the end of a Kawagoe sightseeing day — though being far from any station, rail travellers need a taxi or bus.
Golden source water from 42°C down to 37°C
Stow your shoes in a locker at the entrance and collect a wristband at the front desk; you settle up on leaving. The gender-separated baths split into an indoor hall and an outdoor garden, and the garden is the highlight. The free-flowing 'Zabuun' bath overflows with pale yellow-brown water around 42°C that tastes salty on the lips; the neighbouring 'Sarasara' bath is in the low 40s and the tepid pool 37–38°C, so you can compare the same water at different temperatures and prolong your soak by moving from hot to cool. A lying bath, pot baths and a tub inside a rock grotto keep families entertained. Indoors are a plain main pool, jet and electric tubs, a sauna around 90°C, a salt sauna and a 17–18°C plunge; the sauna fills at the scheduled loyly sessions (weekdays 10, 12, 14 and 16 o'clock, among others). As a chloride spring it keeps you sweating long after, so remember to hydrate. The 'Onnetsu-bo' bedrock zone costs ¥500 extra (sets from ¥970): in unisex outfits you alternate between four rooms of different heat — germanium, medicinal stones and more — and a cool room, resting in a lounge stocked with manga and magazines, a popular half-day on a rainy day. The 'Hatsukari' restaurant serves set meals, noodles and draught beer from 10:00 to 23:00. Weekend afternoons and evenings are very busy with families and young people, so weekday daytime or the discounted morning bath (enter 8–9 a.m.) is advised.
Practical details and pairing with Kawagoe sightseeing
Hours are 8:00–25:00 (last entry 24:30), open all year (occasional maintenance closures). Weekdays adults ¥900, children ¥450; weekends and holidays ¥1,000/¥450; morning bath (enter 8–9 a.m.) ¥800 weekdays, ¥900 weekends; bedrock bathing ¥500 extra; shampoo provided, towels rented for a fee. No tattoos. Driving is the norm — 10 minutes from Kawagoe IC on the Kan-etsu Expressway with 200 free spaces — while by rail it is a 7-minute taxi from JR Minami-Furuya or 10 minutes from Tobu Kami-Fukuoka. A good Tokyo day trip: Kawagoe's kurazukuri street, the Toki-no-Kane bell tower, Candy Alley and Kita-in temple (500 Rakan statues) in the morning, Kawagoe's famous eel or sweet-potato dishes for lunch, baths, bedrock bathing and dinner at Hatsukari in the afternoon, then home in the evening — Kawagoe is just 30 minutes from Ikebukuro by Tobu Tojo express. Staying at a hotel in Kawagoe, a taxi out after dinner also works. Other day-spas in Kawagoe sit closer to stations and may be easier without a car; Hatsukari's strengths are the four source tubs, the free-flowing water, the spacious bedrock zone and easy parking. Weekend nights and holidays are very crowded, and entry may be capped during major holiday weeks.
Before you go
- Tattoos are explicitly not allowed, even if covered.
- Last entry is 30–60 minutes before closing.
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✔ Verified operating: 2026-09 Operating status and rates cross-checked against the official site and onsen guides (full source notes in Japanese on the JA page)
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