Yufuin Onsen, Yufu, Oita
Oyado Nurukawa Onsen
A short walk from Lake Kinrin, with a public bath plus separately priced indoor and outdoor family baths. The hotel describes all nine baths as natural, source-flowing spring baths; each product has its own price.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 08:00–19:00. Closed Tuesdays and the second Wednesday of each month. Public bath: adult ¥600, child ¥300. Private indoor bath for two, 60 minutes: ¥2,000. Private outdoor bath for two, 60 minutes: ¥2,600; extra adults ¥600 and children ¥300 each.
- Tattoo policy
- The current main onsen and home pages reviewed do not publish a tattoo rule. Confirm with the facility; private-bath availability alone does not establish permission.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 69.9°C in Oita Prefecture's existing analysis data; this is not a fixed bath temperature.
- Bathing temperature
- Not published.
- Spring source
- Nurukawa Onsen.
- Spring classification
- Simple spring; alkaline, low-tonicity and high-temperature.
- pH
- The profile cites pH 8.4 from analysis data; this is not a fixed pool setting.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The hotel says all nine baths use 100% natural spring water on a source-flowing basis. Public and family indoor/outdoor baths are separate products and charged separately.
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.
