Sento saunas in Kanazawa, Japan
pocapoca 諸江の湯
Pocapoca Moroe-no-yu is a sento 2.5 km from Kanazawa Station, renovated in December 2025 with a stylish waiting room and cafe corner. It has a cabin-style dry sauna on both the men's and women's sides and a deep, large cold bath, but the sauna only runs at set times: weekdays 18:00 to 23:00, weekends and holidays 6:00 to 9:00 and 16:00 to 22:00. Baths open 6:00 to 24:00 (Mondays and Fridays from 10:00).
御経塚の湯
Pocapoca Okyozuka-no-yu is a sento in Nonoichi, on Kanazawa's southern edge, using Noto deep-ocean water, with a waterfall bath, a spacious dry sauna at just under 90°C, a steam sauna and a sharp cold bath, plus an outdoor bath and electric bath. The sauna costs 200 yen extra and runs weekdays 18:00 to 23:00, weekends and holidays 5:00 to 9:00 and 16:00 to 22:00. Baths currently open until 23:00.
松の湯
Matsu-no-Yu is a sento in the Nagamachi samurai district, a 70-year-old bathhouse that closed in 2020 and reopened on 26 November 2022 with original Kutani-ware tiles made by local craftsmen. Its dry sauna was enlarged to two tiers, the cold bath was made deeper and there is a cool-down rest space. Bath entry is 500 yen plus 360 yen for the sauna (mat included); open 11:00 to 23:00, closed Wednesdays.
湯けむり屋敷 和おんの湯
Yukemuri Yashiki Waon-no-yu is a super sento five minutes' walk from JR Higashi-Kanazawa Station, billed as the closest super sento to Kanazawa Station. It has a tower sauna and a Chinese-herbal sauna; in the women's herbal sauna guests can apply the house mud pack. Adults 780 yen from 5:00 and 880 yen from 9:00; open 5:00 to 24:00 daily, from 10:00 on Mondays (Tuesday when Monday is a holiday).
満天の湯 金沢店
Manten-no-Yu Kanazawa is a super sento behind the Apita store in Nakamura-machi built around an open-air feel, with a large rock bath of Tomuro stone, a carbonated bath and Komyoseki mineral water. Saunas: a seven-tier far-infrared tower sauna at 70-90°C, plus a salt steam sauna and a herbal mist steam sauna that swap sides on odd and even days; cooling is a binchotan charcoal cold bath. Adults 850 yen (700 before 10:00); open 8:00 to 23:00 daily.
pocapoca 諸江の湯
Pocapoca Moroe-no-yu is a sento 2.5 km from Kanazawa Station, renovated in December 2025 with a stylish waiting room and cafe corner. It has a cabin-style dry sauna on both the men's and women's sides and a deep, large cold bath, but the sauna only runs at set times: weekdays 18:00 to 23:00, weekends and holidays 6:00 to 9:00 and 16:00 to 22:00. Baths open 6:00 to 24:00 (Mondays and Fridays from 10:00).
御経塚の湯
Pocapoca Okyozuka-no-yu is a sento in Nonoichi, on Kanazawa's southern edge, using Noto deep-ocean water, with a waterfall bath, a spacious dry sauna at just under 90°C, a steam sauna and a sharp cold bath, plus an outdoor bath and electric bath. The sauna costs 200 yen extra and runs weekdays 18:00 to 23:00, weekends and holidays 5:00 to 9:00 and 16:00 to 22:00. Baths currently open until 23:00.
松の湯
Matsu-no-Yu is a sento in the Nagamachi samurai district, a 70-year-old bathhouse that closed in 2020 and reopened on 26 November 2022 with original Kutani-ware tiles made by local craftsmen. Its dry sauna was enlarged to two tiers, the cold bath was made deeper and there is a cool-down rest space. Bath entry is 500 yen plus 360 yen for the sauna (mat included); open 11:00 to 23:00, closed Wednesdays.
湯けむり屋敷 和おんの湯
Yukemuri Yashiki Waon-no-yu is a super sento five minutes' walk from JR Higashi-Kanazawa Station, billed as the closest super sento to Kanazawa Station. It has a tower sauna and a Chinese-herbal sauna; in the women's herbal sauna guests can apply the house mud pack. Adults 780 yen from 5:00 and 880 yen from 9:00; open 5:00 to 24:00 daily, from 10:00 on Mondays (Tuesday when Monday is a holiday).
満天の湯 金沢店
Manten-no-Yu Kanazawa is a super sento behind the Apita store in Nakamura-machi built around an open-air feel, with a large rock bath of Tomuro stone, a carbonated bath and Komyoseki mineral water. Saunas: a seven-tier far-infrared tower sauna at 70-90°C, plus a salt steam sauna and a herbal mist steam sauna that swap sides on odd and even days; cooling is a binchotan charcoal cold bath. Adults 850 yen (700 before 10:00); open 8:00 to 23:00 daily.