Natural sand-mushi hot spring
The hot sand heated by hot spring water is located on a 1km-long sandy beach, and visitors lie down in a yukata (Japanese bathrobe) and are buried by attendants who use shovels to pour heated sand over their entire body except for their heads.
Lying down comfortably improves blood circulation throughout the body and is especially popular among young women, who believe it is effective for shaping up.
The hot spring water is sodium chloride spring, and medically speaking, natural sand bathing has been found to be highly effective according to research results.
One-day Sunamushi Onsen
Sunamushi Kaikan Sunaraku is a public facility where visitors can enjoy natural sunamushi by burying themselves up to the neck in the white beach of Surikehama, and also has a bathhouse and rest rooms.
Visitors can enjoy sand bathing even if it rains, and after sand bathing, they can take a bath in a hot spring and sauna and relax in the rest room.
Tono-sama Hot Spring
The 27th lord of the Satsuma domain, Narioki Shimazu, built a villa here, and the public bathhouse, known as Tono-sama-yu, is located in the area where the bathhouse and a part of the garden used at that time still remain.
The bathtub in the bathhouse bears the symbol of the Satsuma clan with a cross in a circle, which tells the origin of the name. Adjacent to the bathhouse is Yugongen Shrine, which enshrines the god of hot spring water.