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Nobeha-no-yu Tsuruhashi
天然温泉 延羽の湯 鶴橋店
Eight minutes from Tsuruhashi Station, home of Osaka's Koreatown, a large bath complex known for its Japanese garden landscaping. Pot baths, a standing-depth bath, rock rotenburo and carbonated pool, plus a separately ticketed Korean-style 'hanjeungmak' stone-sauna zone. Open until 2 am — perfect after the yakiniku streets. Everything is charged to a wristband and settled on exit. ¥1,000 weekdays.
- Price (adult)
- ¥1,000
- Hours
- 09:00–02:00 (last entry 01:00)
- Closed
- Open daily (occasional maintenance)
- Access
- 8 min walk from Tsuruhashi Station (JR / Kintetsu / subway)
- Water type
- Bicarbonate spring
- Tattoos
- Not allowed
- Admission
- Bathing adults (junior-high+) ¥1,000 weekdays / ¥1,100 weekends & holidays; children (4 to elementary) ¥550 / ¥610; under 3 free. “Yakuseki Kanjobo” jjimjilbang add-on ¥1,080 / ¥1,180 (sauna wear and mat towel included). Face towel ¥180 to buy, bath towel ¥180 to hire. Private family bath from ¥4,000/h
- Baths
- Rotenburo styled as a mountain hamlet: source rock bath, free-flowing standing bath (“tachi-yu”), pot baths and high-concentration carbonated bath. Two indoor tubs (one a rotating herbal bath), sauna and cold plunge. Paid “Yakuseki Kanjobo”: twelve medicinal stones such as bakuhan-seki in six sauna types (including a trolley-style stone furnace), manga and rest areas. Restaurant, body scrub, esthetics, hair salon, Wi-Fi
- Water
- Sodium chloride-bicarbonate spring, pH 7.4, 42.8 °C at source. Own well, with a free-flowing tub in the outdoor standing bath. Combines the deep warmth of a chloride spring with the silkiness of bicarbonate
- Parking
- 600 free spaces. 8 min on foot from Tsuruhashi Station (JR, Kintetsu, Metro)
- Phone
- 06-4259-1126
- Official site
- nobuta123.co.jp ↗
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Why go
- 8 min from Tsuruhashi Koreatown
- Garden setting, many baths
- Open until 2 am
Beside Koreatown: a free-flowing standing bath and Korean-style jjimjilbang
Nobeha-no-yu Tsuruhashi is a large super-sento beside Osaka’s Koreatown (Tsuruhashi/Ikuno) and among the most popular in the city. Its rotenburo, landscaped like a mountain hamlet, holds a rock bath of the house spring (42.8 °C sodium chloride-bicarbonate) and, rare in Kansai, a standing bath run free-flowing — a downtown facility where you can still enjoy genuine source water without recirculation. There is plenty else: a high-concentration carbonated bath famed for its dense bubbles, a rotating herbal bath and pot baths, while the paid “Yakuseki Kanjobo” with twelve medicinal stones and six sauna types rivals a real Korean jjimjilbang in scale. Open 09:00–02:00 with 600 free parking spaces, and eight minutes from Tsuruhashi Station — a fine way to end a day of yakiniku alleys and Koreatown browsing.
Tips & cautions
- Towels not included (face towel ¥180) — bring your own.
- No tattoos.
- The jjimjilbang is a paid add-on, last entry 24:00 — buy the set if that’s your aim.
- Weekend evenings are packed with queues for the carbonated bath; go weekday mornings or after 22:00.
- Some years August hours extend to 03:00 — check the official site.
- 8 min from Tsuruhashi Station; at night stick to the main road (Tamatsu crossing).
Getting there
8 min on foot from Tsuruhashi Station (JR Osaka Loop, Kintetsu Osaka and Osaka Metro Sennichimae lines) — Tamatsu 3-13-41, Higashinari-ku. City bus to “Higashi-Obase”, 3 min walk. ~6 min from Namba by Kintetsu. 600 free parking spaces. Tel. 06-4259-1126.
Before you go
- Tattoos are explicitly not allowed, even if covered.
- 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)
Prices and hours change. Check official sources before visiting.
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