The village is an onsen village – it is filled with many hot springs and baths (onsen=hot spring). There is a set of 10 (I think) public baths all within walking distance of each other. They are locked but public and if you stay at a ryokan you can get a key to enter. Inside there is a small entrance way with shelves to place your belongings and then you can enter the bath room, also quite small. I would say that maybe a maximum of 6 people can comfortable use the bath at the same time. A few baths we didn’t enter because people were occupying them already but the ones we did go into, we had to ourselves.

You can also buy this cloth listing the names of the 10 baths then at each one, there is a stamp for you to mark it off of your list. I didn’t get them all. I think I missed 6 and 7, 3 there were people inside and it didn’t look like they were going anywhere and 2 was insanely hot. We tried but it just wouldn’t cool down.