Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka, Hyogo
Kinosaki Onsen Yanagiyu
The smallest of Kinosaki's public baths, with a deep wooden indoor pool and a hotter feel. It suits a short soak better than a long, spacious visit; there is no outdoor or private bath.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 15:00–23:00; last admission 22:30. Closed Thursdays. Adult admission ¥800; children from age 3 through elementary school ¥400.
- Tattoo policy
- Permitted under the Kinosaki public-bath policy. This does not automatically apply to baths inside individual inns.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published for this bath.
- Bathing temperature
- The shared bath-side reference is about 42°C. Official visitor information describes Yanagiyu as relatively hot; the actual setting may vary by day.
- Spring source
- Shared Kinosaki Onsen supply; an individual source name for Yanagiyu is not published.
- Spring classification
- Sodium-calcium chloride spring; high-temperature spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The public bath uses the shared Kinosaki supply in a deep wooden indoor pool. No public outdoor or private pool is available. Individual treatment details are not published.
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.
