YAMADA ONSEN · NAGANO
YAMADA ONSEN · NAGANO
Day-use Sauna — Nagano
We have day-use sauna plans you can enjoy privately. The Forest Sauna, wrapped in nature, and the Tenku Sauna under the stars, are both yours to take in.
Forest Sauna & Onsen
＼A “day visit” that feels like a small journey.／
From 9:20 to 17:50, you are welcome to stay as long as you like.
Settle in the sauna in the forest, go round the baths, and take a pause in the rest room. Sauna, a nap after the bath, a drink, a round of the public bathhouses — spend it however you please.
During your visit, the ranch and Kaminari Falls, 15 minutes by car from MATSUKAWAKAN, are worth seeing too.
The saunas at MATSUKAWAKAN are used in a swimsuit, so you can go in together. A sauna is usually split by gender, but here you can share the experience with your partner or your children.
Two rooms: a very high-heat sauna, and a herbal sauna scented with Shinshu herbs and birch. If you love saunas, go to the very high-heat room. If you would rather take your time and enjoy the nature around you, enjoy the herbal sauna.
Sauna & Cold Bath
| Sauna 1 85°C medium-heat sauna | Our aufguss master blends the scent differently from day to day. A sauna for enjoying the aroma and the steam slowly. |
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| Sauna 2 110°C very high-heat sauna | A sauna set up so that everyone, from beginner to expert, reaches totonoi for certain. It gets fiercely hot, so please enjoy your löyly a little at a time. |
| Cold-water bath | 120 cm deep, using water from the mountains. It is both free-flowing and circulated through a filter, so please get in with confidence. |
Hot Spring
The inner bath at MATSUKAWAKAN is open to day visitors as well. The soft source water of Yamada Onsen warms you slowly to the core. Natural light falls into the bathroom, and a quiet spreads through it that lets you forget ordinary life.
It does not have the equipment of a large public bathhouse. What it has is the real quiet, and the ease of toji, that only an inn can give you. Leave the noise of the city, and give yourself to the plain scent of wood and the warmth of the water.
Sotoyu
| Sotoyu I | Oyu | The central bath of Yamada Onsen, in continuous use since the Edo period. A historic public bathhouse long loved by local people. The build is simple, but you can feel the softness and the warmth of the source. |
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| Sotoyu II | Takinoyu | A local communal bathhouse long used by the people of the area. Its appeal is that it is plain and unpretentious, not made for tourists. Drop in, sink into the water — a stretch of time somewhere between everyday life and a trip away. Day-use guests are welcome here as well, though it may occasionally be closed for cleaning. Overnight guests can always bathe there. |
Rest Space
Guests on a day-use plan also have a rest room where you can lie right down, from 9:20 to 17:50. Sleep if you like, read if you like, and since there are power sockets, work if you like. Use it however suits you. After the onsen or the sauna, it is a quiet space in which to take your time.
Plan & Price
| Price | ¥2,300 per person (tax included) |
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| Rest room | 09:20–17:50 |
| Sauna hours | Two-hour sessions (see the slots below / up to 10 people per slot) |
| What to wear | A swimsuit and a sauna poncho (available to rent) |
| Reservation | Please apply through the official booking site (CHILLNN) |
| Time slots (four a day) | Slot 1: 9:20–11:20 / Slot 2: 11:30–13:30 / Slot 3: 13:40–15:40 / Slot 4: 15:50–17:50 * 20:00–23:00 is reserved for overnight guests. |
Please enjoy a sauna experience in the middle of nature that does not merely put you right, but fills you up. Prices are subject to change; please confirm on the booking site.
Tenku Sauna · Private
The “Tenku Sauna” at MATSUKAWAKAN is a fully private sauna you can experience on a day visit as well. In the evening, watch the sun set into Matsukawa Gorge; at night, settle under a sky full of stars once ranked third in the world — a luxurious private space in which to taste that, with no one to disturb you.
Inside, a HARVIA tower stove is used, and the radiant heat spreading slowly from the stone on the side walls warms mind and body through.
With family. With friends. With someone who matters. And of course on your own. Please enjoy your own time of totonoi, in the style that only a private sauna makes possible.
| Price | ¥9,800 per group (for a group of 1 to 4 guests) |
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| Length | 120 minutes (private) |
| What to wear | A swimsuit and a sauna poncho (available to rent) |
| Reservation | Please apply through the official booking site (CHILLNN) |
* The Tenku Sauna is by reservation only, and only a limited number of groups per day.
Please come for sauna time of your own, wrapped in nature and the view. Prices are subject to change; please confirm on the booking site.
Totonoi Lunch
A slightly luxurious day trip, at an inn.
What waits after you have settled in the hot spring is a lunch made generously from the produce of Takayama Village. The most popular of all is our standard “Shinshu Takayama Bowl with the mushroom hotpot set”.
The “Shinshu Takayama Bowl” carries steak piled on boldly, and the famous hotpot uses more than ten kinds of mushroom picked in the local mountains, tasted with our own fermented sauce. It is a kind meal for the body after the bath.
| Lunch hours | 11:00–14:30 (last order 14:00) |
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| Shinshu Takayama Bowl set | ¥2,680 (tax included) |
| All-you-can-drink soft drinks | ¥680 / ¥380 per glass |
| All-you-can-drink alcohol | ¥1,680 (only for guests ordering a meal; one hour) |
After settling, please taste the toji lunch at MATSUKAWAKAN, which fills both body and mind. Prices are subject to change; please confirm on the booking site.
* Please book at least one day in advance.
Rental
Forgot something? You can rent it. So that you can enjoy the day-use onsen and sauna with nothing in your hands, MATSUKAWAKAN has a range of rental items.
| Sauna poncho | ¥680 |
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| Swimsuit | ¥500 |
| Face towel | ¥150 (free for overnight guests) |
| Bath towel | ¥200 |
Guests using the sauna are asked to wear a swimsuit and a poncho. Anything you need can be rented on the day, so please just ask.
Order lunch and the day-use onsen becomes free. In a semi-private rest room, take your time over the taste of Shinshu and the hot spring.
On a stay plan, use of the Forest Sauna is free. And 20:00–23:00 becomes time reserved for overnight guests. You can compare day use and a stay in numbers.
Reservation
Settle, be healed, be filled. The day-use bath at MATSUKAWAKAN does not end at “just a hot spring”.
One luxury, added to your day. This is an experience you can have nowhere else.