Moriyama Yumoto Suisyun Onsen: Day-Use Hot Spring Prices

Located inside the Pieri Moriyama complex on the shore of Lake Biwa in Moriyama City, Moriyama Yumoto Suisyun is a day-use hot spring whose pride is an open-air bath overlooking the lake. Its charm is a handy setting where you can enjoy shopping and bathing in one place.

Highlights

A sodium chloride bicarbonate spring drawn from groundwater deep beneath the lake bed, it is rich enough to be certified as a therapeutic spring. Named the beautiful skin water of Biwa, it offers varied baths including a strong carbonated bath and jet baths. With stone-bath rooms and restaurants on site, you can spend a leisurely day here.

Enjoying the Seasons

You can bathe with lake views all year round, with fireworks in summer and a snow-dusted shore in winter offering scenery for every season. Set within sight of the Lake Biwa Bridge, the view of traffic crossing the water is a highlight in itself.

Access and Basic Information

Take an Ohmi Railway bus from JR Moriyama Station to Pieri Moriyama. A free shuttle bus also runs, and by car you can enter from the intersection at the east end of the Lake Biwa Bridge. Pieri Moriyama is a large shopping mall gathering some 150 shops, so you can spend a full day combining shopping and bathing. Day-use bathing is the main offering, with fees around a thousand yen. Hours can change, so it is wise to check in advance.

Practical Travel Notes

The recommended approach is to combine shopping and dining at Pieri Moriyama with the bath. In recent years it has also grown popular as a stop on the Biwaichi lake-circuit cycling route, making it a good rest point for cyclists. A bath alone takes about an hour, while adding the stone bath, a meal, and shopping can fill a full day. To avoid crowds, aim for weekdays or the morning. Budget around two thousand yen for a bath and a meal, or about three thousand with the stone bath.

A Quick Tip

With stone-bath rooms and restaurants on site, pairing shopping with the bath makes for a relaxed full day out. At dusk, you can watch the sun set into the lake from the open-air bath for a truly special moment.

Practical Information for Your Visit

• Spring quality: Sodium chloride and bicarbonate spring
• Source temperature: 34 degrees / pH: 7.66
• How the water is used: The open-air view bath is free-flowing from the source. There are also carbonated baths, attraction baths, an electric bath and more
• Open-air bath: Yes. A view bath looking out over Lake Biwa
• Opening hours: 10:00-24:00 from Monday to Saturday, and 7:00-24:00 on Sundays and public holidays (last reception 23:30 in both cases)
• Closing days: Open year-round (with occasional temporary closures for maintenance)
• Admission (weekdays): 1,050 yen for adults, 520 yen for children and 330 yen for infants
• Admission (Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays): 1,150 yen for adults, 570 yen for children and 430 yen for infants
• Stone sauna (extra charge): For adults, an extra 800 yen on weekdays and an extra 900 yen at weekends and on public holidays; for children, an extra 500 yen on weekdays and an extra 600 yen at weekends and on public holidays
• Tattoos: People with tattoos, including stick-on ones, are not admitted
• Amenities: Shampoo, body soap and hairdryers are provided. You are generally expected to bring your own towels, and a rental towel set costs 330 yen
• Sauna: Loyly sessions are held
• Payment: Credit cards are accepted
• Parking: Use the parking at Pieri Moriyama (2,800 spaces, free of charge)
• Access (by bus): From Moriyama Station on the JR Biwako Line take the Ohmi Railway bus on the Konohama Line and get off right at the "Pieri Moriyama" stop
• Access (free shuttle bus): Free shuttle buses to Pieri Moriyama run from JR Moriyama Station and JR Katata Station, one round trip an hour from each
• Access (by car): It stands at the eastern end of the Biwako Ohashi Bridge, right after you cross the bridge
• How long to allow: 1-2 hours for the bath alone; half a day if you add the stone sauna, a meal and some shopping in the complex
• To avoid the crowds: On Sundays and public holidays it opens as early as 7:00 a.m., so the early hours are your best bet
• Location: Inside Pieri Moriyama, 2620-5 Imahama-cho, Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture

Information Sources

The opening hours (10:00-24:00 Monday to Saturday, 7:00-24:00 on Sundays and public holidays, last reception 23:30), the fact that it is open year-round, the address and access by bus from Moriyama Station were confirmed in the tourism information of the Moriyama City Tourism and Products Association. The spring quality (sodium chloride and bicarbonate spring), the source temperature of 34 degrees, the pH of 7.66, the admission fees and the extra charge for the stone sauna, and the layout of the baths come from the facility data published on hot spring information websites. The free-flowing open-air view bath, the 330 yen rental towel set, the acceptance of credit cards and the free shuttle buses (from JR Moriyama Station and JR Katata Station) come from a facility report on a site introducing super sento bathhouses. The fact that people with tattoos, including stick-on ones, are not admitted comes from the facility's conditions of use published on a discount ticket website. The history of Pieri Moriyama (opened on September 20, 2008 with about 200 shops, down to 4 shops by 2013, all shops closed on February 28, 2014, reopened after renovation on December 17, 2014 and recovered to 110 shops), the 2,800 parking spaces and the frequency of the free shuttle buses come from the encyclopedia entry for Pieri Moriyama. Details are subject to change, so please check the official information before you set out.