Yunohana Sento ZUISHO Matsumoto-kan — Local services in Matsumoto

Everything you could expect from an onsen/sento/super bath experience! They had lockers and cubbies for shoes and automated ticket machines. If you have a JAF card go to the counter for a discount. Parking is ample and free! I wanted to see if I could rent a towel and I was using Google translate on the ticket machines and some staff came over to help me. They seemed excited to have a foreigner. They even walked me into the locker room and showed me the lockers. It was a bit conspicuous but very kind. The onsen was very busy, lots of children when I went in the evening. Luckily rotation was high enough there would be a few stalls open to clean yourself first. They had water jet massage seats, a cold bath, 2 hot baths, and a foot bath inside. You could also get a massage or body scrub (for extra money) and there was a sauna. Outside they had 3 pot rotenburos, areas for laying out, a covered hot pool, and two areas for laying down in water - one with back support and the other completely flat. The area is enclosed by a high concrete fence since it's in a very entertaining shopping complex, there's a Sega arcade, Starbucks, DVD rental tsutaya, and sports center just outside, but you can look up and admire the clouds or stars. Afterwards I had a bottle of milk and ordered the katsudon set from the restaurant. The katsu was fried crunchy, not crispy as I find katsu tends to be, but it was...

I love sauna and I have experience visiting dozens of different saunas in Russia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Japan (this is already the 8th trip to Japan) and I can say that the high-temperature sauna immediately entered my personal top 10. Dry and a little less than 100 degrees. Excellent! But the low-temperature sauna is not a sauna at all; it's a Turkish hamam (also known as a Turkish bath) with completely different technology based on wet steam. I'm glad there are two options for beginners and experts. It's a pity that I'm only in this city for one day, but it's great that I'm spending the evening here!...

This place definitely needs more good reviews! Free parking, starbucks / supermarket / arcade centre / restaurants in one location. Perfect area for everyone in the family. And back to the onsen review, there was at least 5 different types of onsen. There is one room for soaking your feet + sauna effect, which was something different from other 7 onsen / sento i visited while travelling in a caravan around Japan. Gets quite crowded on a Friday 11pm. Otherwise 680yen is fairly priced for a good onsen experience. Bring your own bath & face towel, conditioner and...