Kita Ward, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Funaoka Onsen
A distinctive public bath for its registered cultural-property building, woodcarving and Majolica tiles, with a broad selection of baths at the standard city rate. It is a neighborhood sento, not a natural hot spring.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 15:00–23:30; Sundays 08:00–23:30. Closed Tuesdays. Adult admission is ¥550. A temporary Kyoto child-free program runs from 1 April 2026 through 31 March 2027 for eligible children accompanied by an adult and registered by the facility's QR process; it is not a permanent price change.
- Access
- In northern Kyoto; bus or a walk is needed from the central station area. The current association page lists 11 parking spaces.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- No fixed official value is published.
- Spring source
- No legal natural spring source is confirmed.
- Spring classification
- Ordinary public bath, not a confirmed natural hot spring. The word 'Onsen' in the name is not evidence of a legal spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The facility has indoor and outdoor baths, a medicinal bath, cold bath and sauna, but current public information does not establish natural spring water.
Bathing indications
Natural hot-spring bathing indications do not apply without a confirmed natural spring.
The current Japanese association page gives 23:30 closing and Tuesday closure. Older translated pages and a stale late-night tag show later hours or daily opening; use the concrete current Japanese hours.
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.
