Nosegawa, Nara Prefecture
Hotel Nosegawa Day-Use Onsen
A rewarding stop if your drive already takes you through Nosegawa or south of Koyasan: ¥800 gets you a strongly alkaline sulfur spring in a quiet mountain setting. It is not a sensible out-and-back from Nara City just for a bath.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Day use 11:00–18:30. In September 2026, temporary closures were listed for the 7th, 14th and 28th; the 21st had special opening hours. Check same-day operations before a long drive.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published.
- Bathing temperature
- Heated; a fixed temperature is not published.
- Spring source
- Nosegawa Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Simple sulfur spring; strongly alkaline.
- pH
- 10.4.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The natural spring is heated in a wood-fired boiler for the large public bath. The current official page does not publish every pool's water-addition, circulation or disinfection conditions.
Overnight guests have a separate 06:00–23:00 bathing schedule; those hours do not apply to day visitors.
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.
