Shiki, Yao, Osaka Prefecture
Yao Onsen Kitano-yu
A budget-friendly southeast Osaka choice for a broad mix of baths, carbonated and hydrogen baths, sauna and a short walk from the station. Choose another facility if you specifically want natural source water.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Bathing 10:00–01:00; last admission 24:00. Adults aged 13 and over ¥900; elementary-school children ¥400; ages 4 and over ¥250; younger children free. Stone spa is ¥900 for ages 13 and over, in addition to admission.
- Access
- About a 5-minute walk from JR Shiki Station; roughly 300 parking spaces are available.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos, tattoo stickers and seals are not allowed.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not applicable; a natural source is not confirmed.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring classification
- No natural spring is confirmed. The facility describes its baths as artificial hot spring water; the carbonated and hydrogen baths are produced by equipment.
- pH
- Not applicable to a confirmed natural source.
- Flow rate
- Not applicable to a confirmed natural source.
- Water handling
- The 'beauty bath' is an artificial alkaline simple-spring bath, not a natural source. The carbonated bath is machine-generated, and the hydrogen bath is produced by electrolysis.
Admission and stone-spa charges are cash-only. Opposite-sex bathing is not allowed for children aged 7 and over or taller than 120 cm. Minors must leave by 22:00 and follow the facility's guardian rule.
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.
