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Sagano Onsen Tenzan-no-yu
さがの温泉 天山の湯
Four minutes from Arisugawa Station on the Randen tram near Arashiyama, a day spa in Kyoto-style timber architecture. Chloride water from 1,200 m below fills rock rotenburo, pot baths and a spacious indoor pool; the men's side has a 'theater' sauna, the women's two saunas. Open until midnight, so it works after a day in Arashiyama. Restaurant on site. ¥1,200 weekdays; closed the third Monday.
- Price (adult)
- ¥1,200
- Hours
- 10:00–24:00 (last entry 23:00)
- Closed
- 3rd Monday (next day if a holiday)
- Access
- 4 min walk from Arisugawa Station (Randen tram)
- Water type
- Simple spring
- Tattoos
- Not allowed
- Admission
- Adults (junior-high+) ¥1,200 weekdays / ¥1,300 weekends & holidays; children (4 to elementary) ¥550; under 3 free. Members (¥200 to join) ¥1,050 / ¥1,100. Towel set hire ¥250. Bedrock bath, esthetics and meals extra
- Baths
- Four outdoor baths: the tea-brown untreated “Kinkaku (Golden) Bath”, the iron-filtered clear “Ginkaku (Silver) Bath”, pot baths and a footbath. Indoors: main tub, jets, electric bath, cold plunge and a sauna with löyly service. High-concentration carbonated bath on weekends and holidays. Drinking fountain of spring water at the entrance. Bedrock bath, restaurant, esthetics
- Water
- Own source from 1,200 m. Sodium-calcium chloride spring, 34.3 °C, yellow-brown, salty and bitter. A concentrated seawater-type chloride spring rare in Kyoto, so warming it is nicknamed the “heat bath”. Heated only, never diluted
- Parking
- 150 free spaces. 3 min on foot from Randen Arisugawa Station
- Phone
- 075-882-4126
- Official site
- ndg.jp ↗
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Why go
- After Arashiyama sightseeing
- Kyoto-style rotenburo and pot baths
- Open until midnight
Kyoto’s most onsen-like water: Sagano’s yellow-brown chloride spring
Tenzan-no-yu, two stops from Arashiyama on the Randen tram in residential Sagano, is a super-sento that leads Kyoto’s day-spa field for the character of its water. Its own source from 1,200 m is a sodium-calcium chloride spring, rare in Kyoto — yellow-brown, salty and bitter on the tongue — poured undiluted into the outdoor “Kinkaku (Golden) Bath”, with the “Ginkaku (Silver) Bath” alongside, the same water with only the iron filtered out, so you can compare the two. Salt left on the skin slows evaporation, hence its nickname the “heat bath”: you stay warm long after. With a löyly sauna, a weekend carbonated bath, a drinking fountain of spring water at the door, bedrock baths and a restaurant, it suits a half-day stay, and there are 150 free parking spaces. Quieter than tourist-thronged Fufu-no-yu and with better water — if the onsen itself is the goal, this is the Sagano pick.
Tips & cautions
- Closed the 3rd Monday each month (next day if a holiday).
- The carbonated bath runs only on weekends and holidays.
- Towels not included (set ¥250). Membership (¥200) saves ¥150 per visit — worth it from the second visit.
- The source is salty and near-hypertonic — keep Kinkaku dips short; it stings cuts.
- No tattoos.
- The drinking fountain water is salty — a sip for the experience.
Getting there
3 min on foot from Arisugawa Station (Randen/Keifuku Arashiyama line) — Sagano Miyanomoto-cho 55-4-7, Ukyo-ku. Two stops (~4 min) from Arashiyama, ~20 min from Shijo-Omiya. City/Kyoto bus to “Ikutaguchi”, 2 min walk. 150 free parking spaces. Tel. 075-882-4126.
Before you go
- Tattoos are explicitly not allowed, even if covered.
- Last entry is 30–60 minutes before closing.
Features
Sauna & wellness
Price
Who with
Amenities
✔ 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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