{"id":5118,"date":"2007-08-31T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:25:56","slug":"yunotsu-onsen-yakushiyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/en\/2007\/08\/31\/yunotsu-onsen-yakushiyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakushiyu: A Retro Gem in Yunotsu Onsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Access] About a 20-minute walk from Yunotsu Station on the Sanin Main Line.
[Fee] 300 yen<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yunotsu Onsen has two main public baths: Motoyu and this one, Yakushiyu. Right next to the current Yakushiyu building, which has a lovely retro vibe, the even more atmospheric old building still remains. At the current Yakushiyu, you can go up to the rooftop to take a breather, and the view from there is really something\u2014it\u2019s got a great feel to it.<\/p>\n

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The bathroom is seriously impressive, with thick mineral deposits radiating out from the oval-shaped tub. I visited early in the morning and found locals chatting away while they soaked; that classic public bath atmosphere is just so relaxing. Compared to the water at Yamagataya, the color is a lighter shade of brown, but you can really feel the mineral richness on your skin. It warms you up beautifully.<\/p>\n

The lady at the reception desk suggested I head up to the rooftop for a coffee after my soak. If it hadn’t been raining, I would\u2019ve loved to relax there for a while, maybe snacking on some onsen crackers from the souvenir shop nearby.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yunotsu Onsen is home to two main public baths: Motoyu and Yakushiyu. Next to the charmingly retro Yakushiyu building stands an even more historic old bathhouse. You can head up to the roof of the current Yakushiyu for a break, where the view is wonderfully atmospheric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/?p=656","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chugoku","en-US"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_wp_geo_latitude":"35.096349","_wp_geo_longitude":"132.349522","_wp_geo_map_settings":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsen.thmiyake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}