Hakoyu

This is the only outside hot spring that can be easily enjoyed in Shuzenji. It is an extremely simple hot spring facility with only a small indoor bath, and the bathtub made of hinoki cypress is filled with free-flowing hot spring water.

On sunny days, showers of light sparkle down from the skylight, allowing visitors to enjoy the tasteful atmosphere of the hot spring.

The fee is in the style of a public bathhouse, where tickets are purchased from an automatic ticket vending machine inside and handed to the guard. Soap and shampoo are not provided, so if you need them, you must purchase tickets from the ticket machine.

There is also a 12-meter-high watchtower. It is a free admission observatory overlooking the hot spring resort, and is named after a Chinese poem by Natsume Soseki, a great writer who loved Shuzenji.

Hakobo-yu” is a legendary hot spring where Minamoto no Yorike, the second shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, once bathed.

Shuzenji, the oldest hot spring resort in Izu, once had seven outside hot springs along the riverbank, which were crowded with many therapeutic bath visitors.

However, by the 1940s, only Tokko no Yu remained, and in the 2000s, Tokko no Yu was closed to visitors.

The “Hako-yu” was built as an out-spa facility where visitors can casually drop in, with a 12 meter-high elevated tower.

The water quality of Hakoyu is alkaline simple hot spring, and its benefits (for bathing) are neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, stiff shoulders, motor paralysis, stiff joints, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive diseases, hemorrhoids, sensitivity to cold, convalescence, recovery from illness, fatigue, and health promotion.

Relax, lose track of time, and soak in the onsen atmosphere while being healed by the aroma of hinoki cypress and hot spring water.