Saga no Yudokoro Komorebi

This is a large day-use bathhouse on the edge of Saga city, built around eight different baths rather than just one or two. Along with an open-air bath looking onto bamboo and an indoor bath, there's a carbonated bath, an electric bath, a sitting bath, a rock bath, a cold bath, and a jar bath (tsubo-yu), so you can work through a whole rotation in one visit. The spring water is a smooth, slightly alkaline sodium bicarbonate type that leaves skin feeling soft. Five private family bath rooms are bookable by phone for those who want to soak on their own. The men's sauna is built at a scale the house markets as among the largest in the country, with a screen inside, and there's a separate sauna on the women's side; a restaurant and a tatami rest area round out what feels less like a neighborhood bathhouse and more like a modern spa complex.