Shizuka Ryokan

BATHHOUSE & SPA

A six-room Japanese inn at Hepburn Springs whose bath is open to people who are not staying there. It is booked privately - one person or a couple, nobody else in the room - for about an hour, from $200. Day visitors get the middle of the day: the first session is 9.45am and the last is 5.30pm, with early mornings and evenings held for house guests. They ask for at least 48 hours notice and say weekends book out, so this is not somewhere to turn up. They publish session times but not opening hours, so no hours are listed here. About ninety minutes from Melbourne.