Kyoto Yawata City
"Taketori Onsen Akari no Yu" in Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a day-use bathing facility where you can enjoy natural hot springs and saunas in a bamboo grove setting. It features a chlorinated spring from its own source and a signature cold plunge bath using spring water, along with outdoor air baths and a stone sauna area. With a calm design that makes use of the texture of wood and stone, it offers a bathing style where bathing, sweating, cooling down, and resting can all be enjoyed as one experience.
Uses the facility's own spring, "Hachiman Kaguya no Yu." The spring quality is a sodium chloride spring (hypotonic, alkaline, low-temperature spring), and its defining feature is a warmly enveloping bath. After bathing, a deep warmth remains in your body, and it pairs well with outdoor air baths and stone sauna sessions, making it a highly satisfying bathing experience.
A far-infrared sauna using a gas-fired stove, with a six-tier seating layout. Auto-löyly is performed every 30 minutes. It has a TV and is designed for strong sweating.
A low-temperature steam sauna at around 45°C, with a setup for applying salt to the body. In a high-humidity environment, it is intended for skin care and sebum care through the effects of salt, and is suited to users who want to work up a sweat slowly.
A signature cold plunge bath using water that springs from the foot of Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine. In summer, they also hold events such as Cool Mint.
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The Editor-in-Chief visited in person in May 2026
A morning awakening your cells in the bamboo grove breeze
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