Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture
Hinomoto-yu
A particularly varied local bath, with soft water, an outdoor salt bath, two types of sauna and a changing medicinal bath. Its soft water is not a natural hot spring.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 14:00–24:00. The individual bath listing, updated October 21, 2025, says it closes Fridays; an older directory entry still shows both Mondays and Fridays. Confirm the closing day with the bath before making a special trip. The profile lists a 15-minute walk from Moriguchi Station and parking for three cars.
- Tattoo policy
- The current profile does not confirm a tattoo policy; ask the bath before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not confirmed; no natural source has been confirmed.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- No natural source has been confirmed. The operator describes the facility as using 100% soft water.
- Spring classification
- General sento using soft water; a natural-spring analysis is not published.
- pH
- Not published; no natural source has been confirmed.
- Flow rate
- Not published; no natural source has been confirmed.
- Water handling
- The operator states that it uses 100% soft water. This does not mean natural hot-spring water. The bath has dry and steam saunas, a cold bath, a rotating medicinal bath, an outdoor salt bath and other pools.
Soft water and natural hot-spring water are different; the current profile confirms the former, not the latter.
The current individual listing and older directory disagree on whether Monday is also a closing day.
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.
