Satsuma-no-yu is the hilltop hot-spring bath of Shiroyama Hotel Kagoshima, 108 m above the city with open-air baths looking across to Sakurajima. Day visitors are welcome from 13:00 to 21:00 for ¥3,500. Its sauna is the Ion Spa, a low-temperature steam room held at 42 to 44°C using natural water drawn from 203 m underground. Bathing in swimwear or with a towel is not allowed. Private open-air baths can be booked separately.
The top-floor observation bath of Kagoshima Sun Royal Hotel looks straight across Kinko Bay to Sakurajima, and the hotel recommends coming in the morning to watch the sun rise behind the volcano. The water is natural chloride hot spring, with water added and reheated. The men's side has a far-infrared sauna and the women's a steam sauna. Non-guests can bathe for ¥1,500, 6:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to midnight.
Satsuma-no-yu is the hilltop hot-spring bath of Shiroyama Hotel Kagoshima, 108 m above the city with open-air baths looking across to Sakurajima. Day visitors are welcome from 13:00 to 21:00 for ¥3,500. Its sauna is the Ion Spa, a low-temperature steam room held at 42 to 44°C using natural water drawn from 203 m underground. Bathing in swimwear or with a towel is not allowed. Private open-air baths can be booked separately.
The top-floor observation bath of Kagoshima Sun Royal Hotel looks straight across Kinko Bay to Sakurajima, and the hotel recommends coming in the morning to watch the sun rise behind the volcano. The water is natural chloride hot spring, with water added and reheated. The men's side has a far-infrared sauna and the women's a steam sauna. Non-guests can bathe for ¥1,500, 6:00 to 10:00 and 15:00 to midnight.