Shima hot spring Sekizenkan

The oldest hot spring hotel in Shima

Outline

Sekizenkan is oldest hot spring hotel of a Shima hot spring. It is said that the building of a main building is the oldest hot spring hotel in Japan with the image of 300 years ago. Sekizenkan is in the confluence point of a Shinyu river and a Shima river. The bridge of Shinyu river is situated in the front of the hotel.

The buildings of a bathroom were built in early stages of Showa, the first floor is bathrooms, and the second floor and the third floor are drawing rooms. This bath- room is called Genroku- no-yu. The window is the arch type and I think that it was modern at the time of construction.

The ingredients of a hot spring are arsenic-sodium and a calcium chloride sulfuric-acid spring. The temperature of the fountainhead is 78 degrees quite highly.

Impression

The space taking off clothes is situated in an entrance, and there is no partition. The inside of a bathroom has five small bathtubs. From the center of a bathtub, hot water springs and it is overflowing calmly. Seeing it makes me a rich feeling.

The water is transparent and a little hotter. It is good water which soaks into the body. The faucet of a bathtub is for adding hot water.

There are also steam baths for one person in a bathroom. The chair of a tile is a nostalgic design.

Location

The Gunma prefecture Azuma County Nakanojo- cho Shima hot spring
TEL:0279-64-2101

Business

Business hours	9:00-17:00
Closure day	Having no holiday
Charge	1000 yen

Access

Get down from Shibukawa Ikaho IC of the Kan-etsu expressway, and go to a terminal point via the national highway of No. 17, and the national highway of No. 353. Sekizenkan is in the main part of a Shima hot spring, and is near Shima Tamura hotel.
Since the car parking space was narrow, you had better use a nearby public car parking space.

Visit Day: 1998 November