Overview
- The mobile hot-spring unit, called Gensō no Yu, began service on November 25 in the Saganoseki Civic Center parking lot, which is functioning as a shelter.
- Free bathing is available from 11:00 to 16:00 each day through December 4 for people displaced by the fire.
- The inflatable air-house stands 6.4 meters high with an 87 square meter footprint and contains separate 450-liter FRP tubs and changing areas for men and women.
- Operators truck up to 11,000 liters per day of 100% Beppu spring water in insulated tanks to maintain roughly 40°C baths.
- Oita Prefecture counted 69 households and 108 people in shelters as of midday November 24, and the unit has prior disaster-use experience from the Noto Peninsula earthquake.