Takatsuki and Kinomoto, Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture
Kitaomi-no-Yu, Kitaomi Resort
A full-service day-use option in Kohoku with sauna, early bathing, natural spring water and room to relax. The building is open around the clock, but bathing is not available overnight.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- Bathing 06:00–24:00; last admission 23:00. The baths are closed for cleaning and maintenance from midnight to 06:00. The wider facility's 24-hour operation does not mean 24-hour bathing.
- Tattoo policy
- Not permitted. Guests with tattoos and similar body art are refused entry.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- Not published; older third-party analysis figures are not substituted for a current first-party value.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Kitaomi Onsen, drawn from about 1,500 m underground.
- Spring classification
- Sodium chloride–bicarbonate spring (low-tonicity, weakly alkaline).
- pH
- Not published.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The facility confirms natural hot-spring water in the men's and women's large baths and outdoor bathing areas. Full water addition, heating, circulation and disinfection conditions are not published pool by pool, so the whole complex is not described as source-flowing or untreated.
Bathing indications
The facility lists general bathing indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, sensitivity to cold and fatigue. This is not a treatment guarantee.
Adult admission is ¥900 on weekdays and ¥1,200 on weekends and public holidays. A standard bathing ticket does not include facility wear or towels. The baths close from 00:00 to 06:00 for cleaning and maintenance. The facility generally closes on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month; check the monthly notice. Tattoos are not allowed.
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.
