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Tamatsukuri's day-use bath, famous for 'beautiful skin' water. A magatama-jewel-shaped building with a cascade bath, open-air tub and 1 m-deep standing bath. Often combined with Izumo Taisha.
An inn with Tamatsukuri's largest great bath, Kobe-yudono, open to day visitors. It has two halls, Hinoki-no-yu and Iwa-no-yu, each big enough for 200 bathers and totalling 1,050 square metres, with an open-air bath, jacuzzi and sauna, and the halls switch between men and women evening and morning. Day bathing runs 12:00 to 14:30 (last entry 14:00) at 1,600 yen for adults and 800 yen for elementary pupils, and 18:00 to 21:00 (last entry 20:30) at 2,000 yen and 1,000 yen; pre-school children are free. Bath towels and face towels are lent without charge, and in the evening soft drinks are unlimited in the lounge. The spring is Tamatsukuri's own, brought to 42 degrees with added water, heating and recirculation filtration.
A long-established inn on Tamatsukuri's spa street whose great baths take day visitors. There are two halls, one lit by a skylight, the other looking across a double-height glass wall onto a Japanese garden, and they switch between men and women. Both have a jacuzzi and a sauna, and the women's hall has a shampoo bar. Day bathing is 1,300 yen for adults and 650 yen for elementary pupils (tax included), from 11:30 to 21:00 with last entry at 20:30. A face towel costs 100 yen and a bath towel 200 yen to rent. Four private open-air baths in ceramic, rock, jar and wood are also open to day visitors at 2,200 yen for adults and 1,100 yen for children for 50 minutes, though that water is not onsen. Closing days vary, so calling ahead is advised.