Arashiyama, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Arashiyama Onsen Fufu-no-Yu
A convenient 1.5-to-2.5-hour soak after sightseeing, especially on the Hankyu Arashiyama return route. It is less suitable for early bathing, a long meal-and-rest stay or anyone with a tattoo.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 12:00–22:00; last admission 21:30. There is no fixed weekly closing day, but occasional closure days may occur. Adult admission is ¥1,100 on weekdays and ¥1,300 on weekends and holidays.
- Access
- About a one-minute walk from Hankyu Arashiyama Station; JR visitors face a longer walk of about 20 minutes.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos and tattoo cover seals are not permitted. No sticker-cover exception is published.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 35.2°C at the outlet; Kyoto City also lists 44.1°C at 1,200 metres underground. Neither is a bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published as a fixed value.
- Spring source
- Arashiyama Onsen, from a 1,200-metre-deep source.
- Spring classification
- Simple hot spring; low-tonicity and weakly alkaline.
- pH
- 7.80 in the operator's current hot-spring overview.
- Flow rate
- 81.0 L/min; Kyoto City also lists about 116 tonnes per day.
- Water handling
- Natural spring water is confirmed in the indoor bath. Current pages do not provide full treatment details for each pool; outdoor, silky-water and cold baths are not automatically treated as natural-spring baths.
- Analysis date
- 2003
Bathing indications
The operator lists general indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive conditions, hemorrhoids, sensitivity to cold, fatigue and health maintenance. These are not a treatment guarantee.
The public source registry records an analysis dated 5 November 2003; a newer full analysis is not confirmed online. Drinking the water is not confirmed.
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.
