Nishiyamato, Kamimaki, Nara Prefecture
Niji-no-Yu Natural Hot Spring Nishiyamato
A leading western-Nara option if you want a source-flowing outdoor pool, several other baths and three saunas in one facility. It has no ordinary day-use private family bath, and tattoos are prohibited.
Facility photos
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 10:00–24:00; last admission 23:15. Adult admission is ¥900 on weekdays and ¥950 on weekends and holidays. The facility closes for maintenance for two or three days about once a year.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos, fake tattoos and tattoo stickers are prohibited.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- The facility's natural spring; the current official page does not publish a formal ionic classification.
- Spring classification
- Natural hot spring; the formal ionic spring type is not published in current official information.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The official page identifies a source-flowing outdoor pool and a separate indoor natural-spring bath. Carbonated, ceramic-pot and cold baths are separate pools and are not all assigned the same spring treatment. The spring pump was restored in July 2026; current official information confirms resumed operation.
Bathing indications
No treatment claim is added.
Tattoos, fake tattoos and tattoo stickers are prohibited. No ordinary day-use private or family bath is listed. Annual maintenance closure is typically two or three days; check current notices.
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.
