Kosugiyu
Koenji, Tokyo
Kosugiyu has been running in Koenji since 1933, in the original wooden temple-style building with a curved karahafu gable over the entrance. It's known for its milk bath, a daily changing bath, and four tubs at different temperatures for going hot and cold.
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Insider tip
Wash at the taps before you get in, and keep your small towel out of the water. Face towels rent for ¥100 and bath towels for ¥200, and shampoo and body soap are free. It opens at 2pm on weekdays and 8am at weekends and on holidays, and closes on Thursdays. It's 5 minutes from Koenji's north exit, through the Junjo shopping street.
What the guides say about Kosugiyu
Kosugiyu is the one most people have heard of. It's been in Koenji since 1933, in a wooden temple-style building with a curved gable over the door, and it's famous for its milk bath. It opens at 8am at weekends. Its second branch, Kosugiyu Harajuku, sits in the basement of the Harakado building in Harajuku and opens at 7am every day except Thursday. One stop from Koenji, Nakano Onsen Tenjinyu keeps its Mt Fuji painting and koi garden and was certified as a hot spring in 2025.
What's on near Kosugiyu
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Kosugiyu, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.
Tokyo Koenji Awa Odori
東京高円寺阿波おどり
Time 17:00 to 20:00 Station Koenji (JR Chuo-Sobu Line), at the station
Tokyo's biggest Awa Odori, with roughly 10,000 dancers in about 150 troupes moving through performance zones in the streets south and north of Koenji Station from 5pm to 8pm on the last weekend of August. Running since 1957 and drawing close to a million spectators; arrive well before 5pm for a kerbside spot.
Manatee, Public domain Nearby
Around Koenji
Punk, vintage and Awa Odori, one stop west of Nakano
Koenji is Shimokitazawa's scrappier, more committed sibling, with cheaper rents, more than a hundred vintage shops, record stores, live houses and cheap bars under the train tracks. It's where Tokyo's punk and underground music scenes put down roots, and every August it hosts one of the city's biggest summer dance festivals.
Koenji has 6 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 3 shops, 1 restaurant, 1 shrine or temple and 1 bathhouse. Read the Koenji guide.
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Good to know
- How do I get to Kosugiyu?
- The nearest station is Koenji (JR Chuo). Kosugiyu is in Koenji, Tokyo.
- How much does Kosugiyu cost?
- Kosugiyu is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Kosugiyu?
- Plan for 1 hour.
- When is the best time to visit Kosugiyu?
- Weekend mornings from 8am.
Stay near Kosugiyu
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Median US$128 a night across 25 listings within 0.6 km for a two-night stay a month out, sampled 29 September 2026. Cheapest quarter under US$107. See the weekly index for every neighbourhood.