Oto, Gojo, Nara Prefecture
Oto Fureai Exchange Center Yume-no-Yu
A well-equipped mountain stop if your southern Nara drive already brings you to Oto: the low-temperature source is heated for bathing, with an outdoor bath, jacuzzi and sauna. It is a long trip without a car.
Check before bathing
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 31.2°C at the source; not the bathing temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Heated; a fixed temperature is not published.
- Spring source
- Oto Onsen Yume-no-Yu.
- Spring classification
- Carbon-dioxide- and iron-bearing sodium bicarbonate–chloride spring.
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- 1,870 L/hour, about 31.2 L/min.
- Water handling
- The 31.2°C source is heated. The center has a large bath made from ancient Japanese cypress, an outdoor bath, jacuzzi and sauna.
The center's profile lists adult admission at ¥600; check the current operating schedule before travelling. Public transport from Gojo or Yagi takes considerable time.
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.
