Gosho no Sato

Gosho no Sato is a large day-use bathhouse with two full bath halls, the Western-styled Roma no Yu (ローマの湯) and the Japanese-styled Wa no Yu (和の湯), that trade between men and women every day. Each side has its own indoor bath, open-air bath, a jet-powered lying bath, a waterfall bath and three sauna rooms, six saunas in all, from a low-heat room to a full steam sauna. The spring water is salty and said to ease muscle and joint aches. Outside the baths there is a restaurant serving Tokushima home cooking, a roadside produce stand, a free tatami rest lounge, and a women-only ganbanyoku stone-bed lounge billed separately from the bathing fee. The spring is said to rise on ground once associated with the retired Emperor Tsuchimikado, and the bathhouse sits among the Asan mountains in Awa; it is also a stop for walkers on the Shikoku pilgrimage pausing to bathe and eat.