Best 20 Onsen(bath) In Kyoto, Let’s enjoy the hidden hot springs!

One of the most popular sightseeing places of Japan is Kyoto Prefecture.

As there are many sightseeing spots, you may have an experience that you became tired because you walked around a lot.

Good also to go around sightseeing spots though, why don’t you stop by a day-use onsen to heal your fatigue from a trip when you go next trip?

This time, let me introduce popular onsen where you can fully enjoy day-use onsens in Kyoto Prefecture.

It is a must-see ranking that a hot spring lover carefully selected, including public baths, spa facilities, and high-class inns where you can use day-use onsens.

Why don’t you fulfill your Kyoto trip with a day-use hot spring?

Gyokkouyu Hijirinone At Fushimi(Kyoto City)

“Gyokkouyu Hijirinone at Fushimi” is a Japanese style spa and baths which is a unified combination complex, including natural hot springs, relaxation facilities, and dining areas.

As it opens from 8AM in the morning until late at night, it is convenient that you can use at anytime.

In the building, there are fulfilled with various facilities, such as shops that line up local souvenirs, an amusement arcade, a resting area.

As there are held occasional events such as fortune telling and mochi (rice cake) pounding, please check on event information of the website, when you visit.

You can also meet with the Pepper during the events.

As there are several dozen kinds of various baths in total, including in-room baths and open air baths, let’s enjoy fully taking around baths.

In the natural hot spring bath, you can enjoy the Turtle hot spring, carried from Kameyama, a region of Ise.

The quality of spring is sodium-hydrogen carbonate/ chloride hot spring.

There seem many words of mouth that skin becomes very smooth.

In the rare high concentration carbonated bath, carbonic acid improves your whole body circulation, and makes metabolism increase.  It is also used for curing including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and poor circulation, and you may expect beauty skin and moisturizing effect, too.

Fushimi-Chikara-No-Yu (Kyoto City)

Located in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, “Fushimi Chikara-No-Yu” is a day-use hot spring facility, which is convenient to access as is three minutes walk from Takeda station of Kintetsu Subway, and which is popular not only to local guests also to tourists.

As there are combined various facilities like not only hot springs but also restaurants, relaxation facilities, such as body scrubs and massages, and a barber, you can enjoy here.

It is perfect for stopping by on the way home from a sightseeing.

In the large bath, you can enjoy 11 kinds of baths for women, and 9 kinds of baths for men, and three kinds of sauna.

The hot water of natural hot spring open air bath of a pride is special natural hot spring, which are carried from “Nose Artlake hot spring” by a tank truck.

Quality of spring is simple spring of hypotonic-alkaline with a bit slimy, and you can fully enjoy the genuine hot spring.

Besides, there are various baths, such as silk bath, strong bath, and the bath of the day.

Let’s enjoy taking around baths.

Hotel Royal Hill Fukuchiyama & Spa (Fukuchiyama City)

Located on a hill of Fukuchiyama City, “Hotel Royal Hill Fukuchiyama” is a hotel with a hot spring facility attached.

As the hot spring that you can fully enjoy atmosphere of Kyoto can be used for a day-use, many people use it, including local guests, tourists, also many from overseas.

Attached to the hotel, the natural hot spring facility “Fukusen Gento” is a full-scale hot spring resort, having equipped with in-room baths, open air baths, cold baths, sauna.

You can overlook landscape of Fukuchiyama from the open air bath.

Quality of the hot spring is chloride spring.

It is said that the hot spring is effective to, including skin disease, neuralgia, sore muscle, and a cut.

It is also good that you can use massage and beauty treatment.

Natural Hot Spring Kinkakujiyu (Kyoto City)

Located in Kyoto City, “Kinkakujiyu” is a public bath situated near Kinkakuji temple, which is a popular sightseeing spot of Kyoto.

As it was opened in 2009 after renovation, the interior looks new and clean.

It is a popular public bath as you can easily stop by on your way home from sightseeing.

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There are various baths that you can enjoy in a big bath area, including hydrogen bath, cascading bath, bubble bath, denkiburo, bath which includes an low electric current, whirlpool bath, cold bath, and sauna.

It is also good that there is an open air bath.

Quality of the natural hot spring is sodium-chloride spring, and it is spring for recuperation.

It is said that the hot spring is effective to, including neuralgia, joint pain, poor circulation, cuts, recovery from exhaustion, and constipation.

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Kitashirakawa Tennen Radium Onsen (Kyoto City)

“Kitashirakawa Tennen Radium Onsen” of Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, is a natural hot spring, proud of the one of the top radium contents even in Japan.

It is a hot spring that also gathered attention as it appeared in a Japanese novel “Seinaru Namakemono no Bouken” by Tomihiko Morimi.

As there are also restaurants, resting areas, resting rooms, you can be healed slowly and relaxed

Natural radium ore spring is a natural hot spring that includes various mineral contents, and it is said that it will heal all kinds of illness.

When you inhale steam, your body will be warmed up from inside, and when you take the bath, minerals contained in the hot water will warm your body from outside, so it has double moisturizing effects.

Immunity will be strengthened by hormesis effect of low level radiation, and metabolism will be activated.

Let’s work out your healthy body in Kitashirakawa Tennen Radium Onsen!

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Kurama Onsen (Kyoto City)

Located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Kurama Onsen” is a hot spring inn in a mountain village of Kurama, where is a bit far from Kyoto city area.

It is good that you can use a superb view open air bath with abundant nature as day-use.

A good value plan that is a set of a day-use onsen and dining is recommended.

In winter, you can enjoy a boar meat hot pot that you can dine only in a mountain village.

For a day use, you can use an open air bath “Houroku Yu”, and a big bath room that is equipped with a bubble bath, a cold bath, and a sauna.

The quality of the hot spring is simple hydrogen sulfide spring with abundant minerals.

It is said that it is effective to neuralgia, rheumatism, diabetes, beauty skin, and a backache.

A Japanese cypress open air bath of Kurama Onsen is the best in Kita Kinki region.

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You can fully enjoy the nature of Kyoto.

Also Kifune shirine and Kawadoko dish are available in Kurama area.

Please visit 2 of tourist places too.

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Fukuchiyama Onsen Yoro no Yu (Fukuchiyama City)

Located in Fukuchiyama City, “Fukuchiyama Onsen Yoro no Yu” is a hot spring facility, surrounded with nature abundant green.

You can enjoy a hot spring while viewing a beautiful garden, and you can fully enjoy the elegance of Kyoto.

As there is also a resting space, let’s stay slowly and relaxed!

There is also kid’s menu in a restaurant, so it is also recommended to families.

Hot springs are fulfilled with various kinds, such as an open air bath, an indoor bath, a whirlpool bath, a Japanese cypress bath, and a cascading bath.

The open air bath, which you can take while viewing a Japanese garden, is a pride of this onsen.

Yoro water is a sacred spring water that heals your exhaustion.

Let’s receive a wondrous power at the place with a long and distinguished history, called Kyoto.

Kyoto Kitashirakawa Fudo Onsen (Kyoto City)

Located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Kyoto Kitashirakawa Fudo Onsen” is a hidden day use hot spring resort, situated at a foot of Hieizan mountain.

The content amount of radium of Kitashirakawa Fudo onsen is the best among Kansai region.

You can enjoy a radium hot spring that is good to your body.

You can rent a pillow and a radium sheet at a free resting area, and you can also dine.

As you can take a bath as many times as you like while you are in the facility, you can enjoy slowly and relaxed the hot spring whole day long.

The quality of hot spring is simple radioactive cold ore spring.

It is said that it is effective various kinds of symptoms, including rheumatism, stiff neck and shoulders, asthma, chronic bronchitis, also kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, arteriosclerosis.

Let’s be considerate of others when using a bit small humble bath tub.

It is said that repeating to take a hot spring then to rest is a way to enjoy by a connoisseur.

There expands a comfortable space in a bath room as well as a resting area as if you came back to your home in a province.

Let’s spend very slowly and totally relaxed forgetting a busy daily life.

Springs Hiyoshi (Nantan City)

Located right under “Hiyoshi Dam” of Hiyoshi Town, Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, “Springs Hiyoshi” is a station of the road with a natural hot spring.

Besides a natural hot spring, there is also an indoor heated pool, and you can also enjoy some picnic, ground golf, and water-play at a park of lawn attached to the next.

As of course there are also restaurants and shops, you can also take a rest.

It is a perfect station of the road for stopping by during your trip.

Hot water of Hiyoshi Onsen is a natural hot spring of sodium-chloride hot spring.

It is said that it is effective to including neuralgia, joint pain, frozen shoulder, poor circulation, chronic skin disease, cuts.

Moisturizing effect is so high as it is even called as “hot water of heat”, so you will not feel chilly after a bath.

In the open air bath, you can enjoy the original spring as it is.

Takao Onsen Hikari no Yu (Maizuru City)

Located in Maizuru City, “Takao Onsen Hikari no Yu” is a day use hot spring facility, which is convenient to access as about three minutes drive from Nishi Maizuru IC and about five minutes drive from JR Nishi Maizuru station.

It is popular among local guests and tourists as a natural hot spring facility that can readily and easily be used.

It is a good value that you will receive one free ticket for bathing on the 11th day of every month as a “Ladies’ day” and on the 26th day as a “Day of bath”.  (Twenty six in Japanese can be read as “Furo” that means a bath.)

There are equipped with facilities that you can heal slowly exhaustion, including an open air bath, a big bath, an air bubble bath, a lie-down bath, a sauna.

The quality of spring of Hikari no Yu that is less stimulation is sodium-hydrogen carbonate/chloride hot spring and is a spring for recuperation.

The natural hot spring of a good quality has also skin beauty effect, and seems that poor circulation also will be healed.

As there are also some body scrub treatments and relaxations, it is happy for women.

Tensyounoyu Daimon (Kyoto City)

Located in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Tensyounoyu Daimon” is a public bath with history that it started using natural hot spring for the fist time in Kyoto.

It is located in a convenient place for accessing as 10 minutes walk both from Nishi Kyogoku station of Hankyu Kyoto line and from JR Nishi Oji station, and it is also convenient as is fully equipped with free parking of six cars.

It is also good that it opens until 1 AM midnight.

In Tensyounoyu, you can enjoy flowing the origin of spring that sprung out from 1000m of underground.

The quality of natural hot spring is sodium-chloride spring and is a spring for recuperation.

It is said that it has various effect to including neuralgia, joint pain, poor circulation, recovery from exhaustion, cuts, and constipation.

Amano Hashidate Iwataki Onsen Kurhaus Iwataki(Yosa District)

One of the three great views of Japan is Amano Hashidate, a popular sightseeing spot of Kyoto.

Located in Yosa District, “Amano Hashidate Iwataki Onsen Kurhaus Iwataki” is a popular day use hot spring facility, where you can enjoy bathing while viewing such Amano Hashidate.

In the building, there are fulfilled with facilities also other than natural hot springs, and you can use some including a hot spring pool with a water slide as well as a working out room.

It is a hot spring facility where all ages from kids to adults can enjoy whole day long.

A hot spring of Kurhaus Iwataki is colorless and transparent and with less smell of sulphur, so it is a mild hot spring.

Even the one who is weak to distinctive smell of a hot spring can be at ease.

You have to wear swimming suits in the Bade Zone where a family or a couple can enjoy bathing together.

Let’s fully enjoy together the natural hot spring while viewing Amano Hashidate.

There is also a bathing zone without swimsuits, separated male and female, so you can take around many bathtubs.

Yasaka Ashiginu Onsen (kyo Tango City)

Located in Kyo Tango City, “Yasaka Ashiginu Onsen” is a day use hot spring facility, equipped with a restaurant and a shop.

An onsen building that includes bath tubs and a management building that includes a restaurant and a shop are connected by an airbridge, which is attached at the height of 25 meter.

It is good that events are held every month, including “a silver day (the 1st)”, and “a dango (a small rice cake ball) day (the 5th and 15th)”.

As there also are held occasional events, including “game of dropping coins”, “Kid’s day”, and “Different jacuzzi”, let’s check event information of an official website ask info from Visit Kyotango and go there!

There is “Oukoku no Yu”, which is equipped with two open air baths, an indoor bath, and a sauna.

And there is “Himiko no Yu”, which is equipped with an indoor bath, a bubble form bath, a whirlpool bath, a lie-down bath, a cascading bath, a box steam bath, an open air jacuzzi, an open air bath, a sauna, and a cold bath.

These two bath rooms were created with an image of ancient tomb.

Hot water of Ashiginu Onsen is a hot spring sprung out from 1500 meter underground and is sodium/ calcium sulfate spring.

You can enjoy flowing safe and fresh hot water.

Amano Hashidate Onsen Chie no Yu (Miyazu City)

Located in front of Amano Hashidate, “Amano Hashidate Onsen Chie no Yu” is a day use hot spring facility with nostalgic atmosphere.

As it is located in convenient place where is one minute walk from Amano Hashidate station of Kyo Tango railway, it is a perfect place to stop by on your way home from sightseeing.

Let’s check because a discount voucher of “Amanohashidate Onsen Chie no Yu” is distributed at sightseeing facilities, including the Amanohashidate View Land and the Amanohashidate station tourist information center, when you visit for Amanohashidate sightseeing!

The hot spring is sodium-chloride spring, and is a spring for recuperation.

As the quality of spring well matches skin smoothly, it is also said as “a hot spring of beautiful skin”.

It is said that it is effective to including neuralgia, sore muscle, motor paralysis, cuts, burns, and recovery from exhaustion.

As there are various bath tubs, including an indoor bath that is related to “Amanohashidate”, a spacious open air bath, distinctively unique foot and hands bath and tsuboyu (a jar bath), you can enjoy taking around baths.

It is good that you can use a foot bath of outside by free of charge.

Sagano Onsen Tenzan no Yu

Located in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Sagano Onsen Tenzan no Yu” is a healing day use hot spring facility, proud of a natural hot spring that sprung out from underground of 1500 meters of Sagano.

As there are equipped with not only a hot spring but also including a beauty treatment, relaxation facilities, resting areas, and an amusement arcade, you can fully enjoy the facility with relaxed and chilled a whole day long.

At a dining area, you can enjoy authentic dishes.

Ikesu dishes that a cook, who is skilled in Japanese dishes, cleans and fillets fresh fish in just front of your eyes are superb.

(Ikesu means fish preserve tank usually put in a restaurant.

A cook catches fish from the tank right before cooking.)

The origin of spring that sprung out from underground of 1200 meters is sodium/ calcium chloride spring, and is a spring for recuperation that has various effects.

In the building of Japanese style just as it should be in Kyoto, there are various facilities, including three kinds of open air baths, a lie-down bath, a large bathtub, tsuboyu (a jar bath), a whirlpool bath, a sauna, and a foot bath.

“The carbonated spring” is the weekends’ specialty.

You can enjoy it at the open air bath, “Ginkaku no Yu”, only on Saturdays and Sundays.

Let’s improve your blood circulation with the carbonated spring, in which numerous bubbles cling to your whole body.

Rurikei Onsen (Nantan City)

Located in Nantan City, “Rurikei Onsen” is a complex facility, where including a hot spring facility, an accommodation, and a barbecue area are unified.

As there are various facilities, including for playing and for healing, all ages from a kid to an adult can fully enjoy whole day long.

There are held various events according to seasons.

In the big bath room, you can enjoy a natural hot spring that proudly is the one of the most radon contents in Japan.

It will heal your fatigue completely.

In a Bade zone, where are including an open air bath, a cascading bath, a jacuzzi bath, a sauna, and a heated pool, you are to wear swimsuits.

It is happy that everybody of your family can enjoy fully together.

There are various healing facilities, including a bedrock bath, an enzyme bath, and a private bath for reservation.

Let’s heal completely your body and mind!

Kamikata Onsen Ikkyu Kyoto Honkan (Joyo City)

Located in Joyo City, “Kamikata Onsen Ikkyu Kyoto Honkan” is a day use hot spring facility, proud of a natural hot spring of 100% with the origin of Shosen no Yu.

There are fulfilled with healing facilities in a luxury building like a high-class hot spring inn.

Said that you can fully enjoy atmosphere of Kyoto, it is very popular among tourists.

The quality of the 100% natural hot spring, of which origin is Shosen no Yu, a pride of the facility, is simple alkaline hot spring, called as “a hot spring of a beautiful woman”.

White and opaque hot water is mild and is effective to neuralgia, sore muscle, poor circulation, and recovery from exhaustion, and it seems that it also makes skin smooth.

You can enjoy bathing in various atmosphere, including an indoor bath also with a sauna, an open air bath with motif of “a waterfall” and “a pine tree”, as it should be of Kyoto.

It is happy that there are also relaxation facilities, such as a bedrock bath and a massage.

Kyo no Minsyuku Ohara-no-sato (Kyoto City)

Located in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Kyo no minsyuku Oohara-no-sato” is a warm private inn, where you can enjoy heartwarming elegance of a country-side.

Although you cannot use just a hot spring, there is a day use plan that you can enjoy a hot spring and dishes of inn’s pride, and it gathers popularity.

In the place surrounded with nature, let’s fully enjoy a special hot spring and superb hot pot dishes.

Hot water of Ohara-no-sato is a hot spring of sodium/ hydrogen carbonate ion of alkalescent.

As it will make cuticle of skin soften and will make skin very smooth, it is said that it has similar effects of a hot spring of a beautiful woman.

It is also said that it is effective to including neuralgia, sore muscle, poor circulation, chronic digestive disease, health improvement, and recovery from exhaustion.

Colorless and transparent, has less stimulation, and suits also for recuperation, it is the special hot spring water.

At the specialty, an open air Goemon bath, you can enjoy bathing and forest bathing (or shinrin yoku) at the same time in a private space.

*Goemon bath: a bit large jar bath.

Omotenashi no Yado Keizankaku (Kameoka City)

Located in 15 minutes ride by a bus from Kameoka station of JR Sagano line, “Omotenashi no Yado Keizankaku” is a popular hot spring inn, with abundant nature of Kameoka.

Inside of the building is luxurily designed as if Japanese traditional house.

You can spend the luxury and the most excellent time.

It is happy that you can use a hot spring of high class inn as a day use hot spring.

The hot spring of simple weak radioactive hot spring (hypotonic neutral low hot spring) is said that it has various effects, including neuralgia, soar muscle, poor circulation, recovery from exhaustion, health improvement, high blood pressure, and chronic cholecystitis.

A white wall design of men’s bath makes you remind of a Japanese traditional house, and a ladies’ bath is with abundant wooden warmth, made of all Japanese cypress.

Luxury spaces for healing expand there.

Let’s enjoy the happiest moment.

Kyoto Katsura Onsen Nizaemon no Yu (Kyoto City)

Located in Nishikyo Ward, Kyoto City, “Kyoto Katsura Onsen Nizaemon no Yu” is a day use hot spring facility where you can enjoy a natural hot spring.

Besides a hot spring, there are fulfilled with healing facilities, such as a body scrub treatment, a massage, and a bedrock bath.

You can stay relaxed there because there is also a restaurant.

It is also a good point that it opens until late midnight.

There are two kinds of natural hot spring sprung out from the underground of facility, the one is simple hot spring that is smooth texture to skin and has high effect on beauty skin, and the other is chloride hydrogen carbonate hot spring that is clear and has moisturizing effect, and you can enjoy two good quality springs.

It is luxury that you can enjoy flowing origins of two kinds of hot springs.

An open air bath is surrounded by rocks and with elegance.

It is also said that the bath that you can view “Katsura no Tsuki(Moon in Katsura district)” that was loved by a court noble.

Let’s Fully Enjoy Hot Springs In Kyoto

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