Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture
Mandara-yu
Mandara-yu stands out for its open-air bath on the wooded hillside behind Kinosaki's main street. It opens later than several of the town's other public baths, so check the current schedule if you're planning an early bathhouse crawl.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- The profile records a 15:00 opening time; confirm the current schedule before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- No fixed source temperature for this bathhouse is published.
- Bathing temperature
- The town's shared public-bath information gives 42°C as a reference; the actual temperature is adjusted on the day.
- Spring source
- Kinosaki Onsen's shared hot-spring supply; an individual source value for Mandara-yu is not published.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium chloride spring; the profile does not include a facility-specific analysis sheet.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- Indoor pools and a public outdoor bath on the hillside. The profile does not list a private bath for day visitors.
The 42°C figure is a town-wide reference, not a guaranteed temperature for each pool at Mandara-yu.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
