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Fukushima, Fukushima / 飯坂温泉

Iizaka Onsen

A hot-spring town 25 minutes by train from JR Fukushima Station, with 8 public bathhouses, foot baths and day bathing at inns; Basho mentioned it in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Hotels and inns lining both banks of a river in a hot-spring town
Iizaka Onsen along the river (photo taken August 2018)Photo: 皓月旗 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized) · License · Source

Last official check

30 Sept 2026

Traveler reports

0

Reports open in Phase 2

Next scheduled check

24 Dec 2026

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A short summary made from the official facts below. Check the rows for details.

Getting there
Train / Car
Admission
Paid (see the price below)
Closing days
Varies by shop or facility (see below)

Before you go

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Opening hours

Inn day-bathing hours differ (e.g. 10:00-20:00, 11:00-20:00). Some inns don't take day bathers on certain days or close for maintenance, so always phone first.

Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
Closed

Varies by facility (each day-bathing facility has its own closing days; some may close for maintenance, so check with the inn).

Checked 30 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
Admission

Inn day bathing costs about 300 to 1,600 yen for adults, depending on the inn (most are 400-700 yen; the top price includes towel and yukata hire).

Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
Getting there

About 25 min from JR Fukushima Station on the Fukushima Kotsu Iizaka Line to Iizaka Onsen Station. By car, from Fukushima-Iizaka IC take Route 13 toward Yonezawa, turn right at the junction with the level crossing, and follow Route 3 for about 2 km.

Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
Not yet confirmed

Parking, Payment, Accessibility

we have not confirmed this on an official source yet. Check with the spot before you go.

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Official site: https://iizaka.com/

Location

Approximate location: this pin comes from Wikidata (a public database), not from an official page. The official site gives no street address, so we only checked that the pin is in the right city or town. This point is the rough centre of the hot spring town.

Smaller pins are other spots nearby.

Location source: Wikidata (CC0)

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Nearby spots

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Crowds

Not yet confirmed

Crowd level, Best time to visit, Peak time, Busiest days, Busiest season

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Visiting respectfully

  • Local etiquetteThe eight public bathhouses are simple baths used by locals, and the foot baths are easy to drop into. The city-run Moniwa-no-Yu is by Lake Moniwa (Moniwa Dam).Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site
  • Local etiquetteLegend says Prince Yamato Takeru was healed in the Sabako-yu bath. Basho wrote of it as "Iizuka" in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Masaoka Shiki, Yosano Akiko and Helen Keller also visited.Checked 25 Sept 2026 on a tourism board site

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