[Yunotai Onsen in Kaminoku] Day Trip Onsen and Natural Masterpiece Can Be Enjoyed at Kaminokuni Onsen National Health Center

Kaminokuni Onsen National Health Center

Kaminokuni Onsen National Health Center (上ノ国町国民温泉保養センター) is a hot spring facility for day trip onsen founded in 1975, and is famous for the bath floor and walls deposited by hot spring ingredients. The appearance and the interior decoration have an atomosphere of Showa period, and it is very Shibui. An entrance fee to the bath facility is JPY 350.

There are 2 indoor baths, 1 whirlpool bath, 1 cascading bath at a public bathhouse. The sunny bathhouse with a lot of windows is large and old but cozy. Color of whole bathhouse turns into dark brown by the hot spring ingredients. 3 baths are set along the windows, and the cascading bath is set beside a wall. The bath floor deposited by hot spring ingredients like terraced rice-field-shape is cool, too. Through the windows, fresh green can be enjoyed in a summer, and fall foliage can be enjoyed in an autumn.

The large indoor bath surrounded by rocks is the size that about 12 people can take a bath, and uses natural free flowing hot springs with adding heated water. Water temperature is around 42 C. The small indoor bath surrounded by rocks is the size that about 8 people can take a bath, and uses 100% natural free flowing hot springs. Water temperature is around 38 C. Bathers can enjoy natural air bubbles. The whirlpool bath surrounded by rocks is the size that about 2 people can take a bath, and uses 100% natural free flowing hot springs. Water temperature is around 35 C. The baths are warm wholly, and are suitable for taking a long bath.

The cascading bath seats 3 people, and a rocky wall is amazing. It truns into rocks like insect-egg-shaped stones. The hot spring ingredients have precipitated on the wall, and the shape have been born naturally. I feel that power of nature is very splendid. I think that this is worth seeing.

The hot springs are sodium and calcium chloride carbonated spring, and are opaque and light green and have salty taste and metallic taste. The sum total of (1) hot spring ingredients are 5.951 g/kg. The sum total of (2) hot spring ingredients are 4.978 g/kg. The hot springs were drinkable, but I did not find a drinking hot spring facility. Because shampoos and body soaps are not provided at the bathhouse, so bathers should bring those. A free hair dryer is installed at a dressing room. Because a restroom is not installed at the dressing room, you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom along a corridor.

Atmosphere of Yunotai Onsen Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Yunotai Onsen

Amanogawa-no-Yu

The Amanogawa-no-Yu is a nature open-air bath near Yunotai Bridge (湯ノ岱大橋) on the right bank of the Amanogawa River. 2 ponds are on the river bank. Clear fresh springs gush out at a small pond, and the bottom of the pond turns into brownish-red color, and it is the same as the Kaminokuni Onsen National Health Center. The springs flow from the small pond to a lower large pond, and beige color hot springs gather. But to hesitate to take a bath. Water temperature of the small pond is around 30 C. The springs are too lukewarm, so it is hard to take a bath except in a summer.

Movie of Amanogawa-no-Yu