Kyobate, Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Hotei-yu
A well-equipped local bath near Kyobate Station if you want soft water, several feature baths and sauna through midnight. Its artificial onsen is not natural spring water.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 15:00–24:00; closed Fridays. Adult admission is ¥530 under the current Nara public-bath rate. Older listings showing ¥440 or ¥480 are outdated.
- Access
- About a one-minute walk from JR Kyobate Station; parking is also listed.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not applicable; there is no natural spring source.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- No natural spring. The facility uses purified soft water and a manufactured onsen concentrate.
- Spring classification
- Artificial hot spring; not a natural spring.
- pH
- Not applicable to a natural spring.
- Flow rate
- Not applicable to a natural spring.
- Water handling
- The whole facility uses purified soft water. Baths include an artificial onsen using an approved bath additive, jet and electric baths, cold bath and sauna.
Bathing indications
The artificial bath is not assigned natural-spring treatment indications.
The current adult public-bath rate is ¥530; older ¥440 and ¥480 listings are out of date. Closed Fridays.
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.
