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Kirishima Yutabi

An onsen stamp rally around Kirishima in Kagoshima, run on a phone app by the Kirishima City Tourism Association. Soak at the member baths, collect digital stamps, and climb the sumo ranks from makushita to yokozuna; 48 stamps makes you a grand champion.

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Kirishima Yutabi (きりしまゆ旅, "the Kirishima hot-spring journey") is a digital onsen stamp rally put on by the Kirishima City Tourism Association, under its "Iza Kirishima" campaign. Kirishima packs a wild variety of hot springs into one corner of Kagoshima: sulfur springs up on the volcano, and fizzy carbon-dioxide and soft bicarbonate waters down in the Amori and Hayato river valleys. The rally is really just a fun excuse to soak your way through all of them, one bath at a time.

It all runs through a phone app, so there's no paper stamp book to carry around. Grab the app, drop by a member bath, have a proper soak, and the staff help you collect that spot's digital "yutabi stamp."

How it works

  1. Get the app. Scan the QR code on the campaign leaflet or any member's poster to download the きりしまゆ旅 app.
  2. Soak, then stamp. At each bath, actually get in the water, then pick up that place's digital stamp in the app (staff will sort you out).
  3. Climb the ranks. Your stamps stack up into sumo ranks. Hit a rank and you can apply at a campaign office to get certified and grab the matching original goods.

The sumo ranks

Your stamp count is scored like a sumo career, working up from the lower divisions to the very top:

  • Makushita (幕下): 10 stamps.
  • Komusubi (小結): 20 stamps.
  • Sekiwake (関脇): 30 stamps.
  • Ozeki (大関): 40 stamps, plus an original 200 ml stainless bottle.
  • Yokozuna (横綱), grand champion: 48 stamps, plus an original kesho-mawashi-style bath towel (80 by 135 cm). Getting here means you've cleared nearly the whole list.

Every rank comes with its own keepsake, and they get bigger as you climb. Exact prizes and any fees change from one edition to the next, so check the current leaflet.

Where to apply

You get your rank certified (番付申請) at the campaign's tourist-info offices: the Kirishima Onsen office (霧島温泉案内所), the Kirishima City office next to the big torii at Kirishima-Jingū (霧島市観光案内所（霧島神宮大鳥居横）), and the Saigō Park office in Mizobe (西郷公園観光案内所（霧島市溝辺町）). You can hand everything in at once.

Good to know

  • For the rally, every member counts as a drop-in (立ち寄り湯) bath, but hours, days off, and entry fees vary a lot, anywhere from a tiny neighbourhood bath to a ryokan day-soak. Always check with the place before you head over.
  • A few members are private family baths (kazoku-yu), and yes, soaking there still earns the stamp.

Earn the badge

We mirror the rally's top rank as a repeatable Kirishima Yokozuna badge. Make grand champion for real, then come claim it here.

The member facilities

Everything below is matched to our own catalog, so each name links straight to its full page with map, hours, and the rest, grouped by the seven onsen areas the official leaflet uses. Hours come from each place's public listing and shift with the seasons, so the official list is always the most up-to-date word on who's taking part.

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