Higashiyama, Ikoma, Nara Prefecture
Oto-no-Hana Onsen
A strong rail-accessible option if a large outdoor bath is your main draw. The usual Wednesday discount has exceptions, and guests need to bring their own towels and wash products; tattoos are not accepted.
Facility photos
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 09:00–21:00; last admission 20:00. Adults normally ¥1,000, or ¥500 on regular Wednesdays; children ¥500, or ¥300 on Wednesdays; under 3 free. Holiday and special-operation Wednesdays may use regular prices. The restaurant is usually closed Wednesdays.
- Access
- About 300 m, or a 5-minute walk west of Higashiyama Station on the Kintetsu Ikoma Line.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos are not allowed under the facility's current rules.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Natural spring from a depth of about 1,850 m, according to Nara Prefecture.
- Spring classification
- Natural hot spring; the facility's current main pages do not confirm a formal ion classification.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The spring is confirmed, but current public material does not provide a full pool-by-pool supply and treatment table. Source flow is not assumed.
Towels, soap and shampoo are not provided; bring your own. The ¥800 price on the older prefectural listing has been superseded by the facility's current rates.
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.
