Osaka Osaka City
A supreme hot spring resort featuring naturally flowing spring water and Kansai's strongest löyly
"Natural Hot Spring Nobeha no Yu Tsuruhashi" is a large bath complex in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Its signature hourly löyly service and spacious high-temperature sauna let you refresh yourself thoroughly, while the deep underground-water cold plunge bath cools you down to the core. In the outdoor area, you can enjoy naturally flowing spring water in a standing bath and rock bath, which warm your tired body from deep within. Facilities such as the Korean-style salt sauna "yakuseki hanjeungmak," which uses 12 kinds of medicinal stones, 11 private family baths—the largest number in Kansai—and a restaurant serving authentic Korean cuisine allow you to spend the whole day in comfort.
A skin-friendly, weakly alkaline natural hot spring using the facility's private source, "Himorogi no Yu." The outdoor area offers a variety of baths, including the signature "natural free-flowing standing bath" with water up to waist depth, an atmospheric "natural rock bath," "tsuboyu" pots you can enjoy all to yourself in Shigaraki ware, and seasonal baths in the indoor area. It features the high heat-retention effect unique to chloride springs and the smooth water feel of bicarbonate springs. You can fully enjoy the unique bathing experience of standing in the source's blessings, as well as the time spent leisurely loosening your body while feeling the charm of a satoyama landscape.
A spacious large sauna room equipped with an iki stove. The interior has been completely renovated, and its high ceiling allows you to feel the heat waves more directly. Every hour at 30 minutes past the hour, staff-led löyly service (aufguss) is held, and the intense heat wave containing negative ions rapidly raises the perceived room temperature and triggers explosive sweating.
A high-temperature sauna equipped with a convection-style stove that allows self-löyly. It uses a low entrance door around waist height, designed to keep the heat inside. The sauna benches are placed high up after climbing a set of steps, so the ceiling feels close and the heat is more directly felt. The chic black-themed interior lets you quietly face yourself, almost like meditating. A dedicated standing shower is also available.
A spacious open sauna room equipped with an iki stove. The ceiling height is adjusted so it can fully catch the heat waves of aufguss. During the löyly service held every hour at 30 minutes past the hour, steam infused with aromatic water fills the room, creating a pleasant fragrance and a strong sweat-inducing effect.
A self-löyly sauna using a convection-style stove that lets you adjust the humidity to your liking. The low entrance door and the sauna benches placed higher up make the heat extremely efficient, allowing you to fully enjoy the heat that gathers near the ceiling. In this calm black-based space, you can spend a deeply relaxing time. A dedicated standing shower is also available.
A steam salt sauna prepared exclusively for women. By gently rubbing the salt provided in the room over your entire body, the sweating effect increases even more in combination with the heat of the steam. While warming your body with gentle, lingering heat, it helps remove old dead skin cells, leaving your skin astonishingly smooth and silky after bathing.
A cold plunge bath using high-quality natural water drawn from underground. It is deep enough to fully submerge your heated body from the sauna for rapid cooling. The water temperature is pleasantly cool without being too cold, making for a crisp cooldown. After leaving the bath, you can enjoy outdoor bathing in the many totonou chairs placed throughout the outdoor area or in the tatami-floored rest area, and fully savor a blissful time of relaxation.
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5 minutes on foot from JR Loop Line Tsuruhashi Station. Parking for 600 cars.
Visited by the Editor-in-Chief
The Editor-in-Chief visited in person in January 2026
Thoroughly steamed by an intense löyly session
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