Kyoto · Amanohashidate Onsen
Amanohashidate Onsen Chie-no-yu
天橋立温泉 智恵の湯
The only public bath in Miyazu, right next to Amanohashidate Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway — the gateway to one of Japan's Three Views. Named after the Monju bodhisattva of wisdom, it looks like a small ryokan. Magnesium-rich chloride water fills an indoor bath and hand-and-foot bath, with a free footbath outside. ¥800, 12:00–21:00. Perfect for a rinse while waiting for your train after walking the sandbar.
- Price (adult)
- ¥800
- Hours
- 12:00–21:00 (last entry 20:30)
- Closed
- Wed & Thu
- Access
- Adjacent to Amanohashidate Station (1 min); about 2 h from Kyoto by Ltd. Exp. Hashidate
- Water type
- Simple spring
- Tattoos
- Ask ahead
- Admission
- Adults (junior high and up) ¥800, elementary ¥400, one infant free per adult (formerly ¥700/¥350). Ticket machine. Shampoo and body soap provided, towels sold. Lockers ¥100 refundable. The foot bath in front of the building is free (whole family welcome). Discount coupons sometimes available at the tourist office or inns
- Baths
- Miyazu city's only public bathhouse, right beside Amanohashidate Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway along the tracks (opened in the 2000s). A Momoyama-style storehouse building of white walls and black tiles, with an atmospheric dimly lit bathroom. Gender-separated indoor pools (about 10 bathers), a small outdoor 'pot bath', an 'arm bath' for hands and forearms and a seated foot bath. No sauna. Tatami rest room upstairs. Free foot bath outside and a storage tank by the tracks. A simple bath for quiet soaking to the sound of wind in the pines
- Spring water
- Source 'Amanohashidate Onsen'; the analysis sheet gives a sodium bicarbonate spring (hypotonic, neutral) at 38.9°C, pH 7.22, 87 L/min, with radon 13.2×10⁻¹⁰ Ci/kg (weakly radioactive). Signage also calls it a 'sodium chloride spring'. Pale yellow and faintly cloudy with a slight earthy smell, no taste though sometimes a hint of salt. Heated and recirculated. Indicated for joint pain, poor circulation, cuts, gynaecological complaints and fatigue. Amanohashidate Onsen was created by a 1,500 m bore in 1999 and supplies the hotels and inns around the station
- Access & parking
- No dedicated parking (use the paid lots around the station; often full in peak season). 1 min on foot (29 m) to the right of the exit of Amanohashidate Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway. About 2 h from Kyoto Station on the 'Hashidate' limited express, about 2.5 h from Osaka on the 'Kounotori' plus a transfer, 2–2.5 h by express bus from Kyoto or Osaka. 10 min by car from Miyazu-Amanohashidate IC on the Kyoto Jukan Expressway. 5 min on foot to Chion-ji (Monju) and the Amanohashidate swing bridge, 5 min to the View Land chairlift
- Phone
- 0772-22-1515
- Official site
- amanohashidate.jp ↗
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Why go
- Next to Amanohashidate Station
- Miyazu's only public bath
- Free footbath outside
By the station at Amanohashidate, one of Japan's three great views — Miyazu's only public bath
Amanohashidate Onsen Chie-no-yu is Miyazu city's only dedicated day-bathhouse, standing right beside Amanohashidate Station on the Kyoto Tango Railway — the gateway to Amanohashidate, counted with Matsushima and Miyajima among 'Japan's three great views' in Kyoto prefecture. Amanohashidate is a 3.6 km sandbar lined with some 5,000 pines across Miyazu Bay, famous for the 'matanozoki' view taken bending over and looking between your legs; at its southern Monju end stands Chion-ji, the temple behind the proverb 'three heads together have the wisdom of Monju', from which the bath's name 'chie' (wisdom) derives. Amanohashidate Onsen is a relatively young spring drilled near the station in 1999 and piped to the hotels and inns, but Chie-no-yu is the only place non-residents can bathe in it. The white-walled building in Momoyama storehouse style holds gender-separated indoor pools, a small outdoor pot bath, an 'arm bath' for forearms only and a free foot bath; open 12:00 to 21:00 (closed Wednesdays and Thursdays) for ¥800, it is just right for a soak before your train.
Pale-yellow water, an arm bath and the sound of wind in the pines
Buy a ticket from the machine and you step into a changing room and bathroom with the high ceiling and dim lighting of a converted storehouse — small but atmospheric. The indoor bath is a single tiled pool for ten or so; the water is pale yellow and faintly cloudy with a whiff of earth up close, and on some days a touch of salt. The 38.9°C source is heated to 41–42°C, and thanks to chloride, bicarbonate and a trace of radon it keeps you warm long after — a 'warming bath'. Beyond the glass door sits a small single-person pot bath where you soak to the sound of wind through the pines and trains arriving at the station; braving the fierce winter winds off the Sea of Japan has its own appeal. The curiosity is the 'arm bath', a seated tub for hands and forearms only on the principle that warming the extremities warms the whole body, set beside a foot bath you can use fully clothed. There is no sauna or restaurant, but a tatami rest room upstairs. With few wash stations and one tub it can get crowded just after trains arrive and from 18:00 to 20:00, so aim for the noon opening or before 20:00 after coming down from View Land at dusk.
Practical details and a day at Amanohashidate
Hours are 12:00–21:00 (last entry around 20:30), closed Wednesdays and Thursdays. Adults ¥800, elementary ¥400, one infant free per adult; shampoo is provided and towels are sold. With no car park of its own, drivers use the paid lots around the station (often full in peak season); by train it is about 2 hours from Kyoto on the 'Hashidate' limited express, then 1 minute to the right of the station exit. The classic day: Chion-ji and the swing bridge in the Monju district in the morning, then walk the 3.6 km sandbar or rent a bicycle (20 min) to Kasamatsu Park on the northern Fuchu side (cable car or lift) for the famous upside-down 'matanozoki' view, Motoise Kono Shrine, back to Monju by sightseeing boat, up to Amanohashidate View Land on the south side (chairlift, 5 min on foot) for the 'flying dragon' view at sunset, a bath at Chie-no-yu, and your train or inn from the station. Winter (November–March) brings snow-crab cuisine in Miyazu and Ine, spring cherry blossom on Miyazu Bay and summer the beach inside the sandbar, and the Ine boathouses 30 minutes away complete a Tango day. As a bathhouse right by the station, it is the simplest way to add 'and an onsen' to seeing Amanohashidate.
Before you go
- No official tattoo policy is published — ask at reception.
- Payment is usually by ticket machine in cash — bring coins.
- Last entry is 30–60 minutes before closing.
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✔ Verified operating: 2026-09 Operating status and rates cross-checked against the official site and onsen guides (full source notes in Japanese on the JA page)
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