Nana Fuku Onsen Nana Fuku Sō

Shichifuku Onsen Shichifukuso is a day-use bathhouse in a quiet mountain valley in Aga, Niigata. The indoor bath draws from a cold sulfur spring: one tub is warmed for a normal soak, and right next to it sits an unheated pool at the spring's own temperature, and regulars move back and forth between the two. The water feels faintly smooth on the skin, and bathers describe fine bubbles clinging to the body in the cold pool. There's no outdoor bath, but the two bathing rooms, Kou-no-yu (幸の湯) and Fuku-no-yu (福の湯), both face large windows onto the surrounding mountains through the seasons. Each tub spout carries a relief of one of the Seven Lucky Gods (七福神, Shichifukujin), for whom the place is named. The attached restaurant serves hand-pulled soba and home-style local cooking, and there's a tatami rest hall to relax in afterward.