The place has a restaurant and good parking spot.
The Onsen is clean and friendly.
It has hot & cold pool, shower, sauna, as well as an outdoor Onsen.
If you are in Soni village,
it is a place to stop by.
The only downside is they don't provide English instruction so it would be a bit difficult to understand if you don't read Kanji, but you can always ask as the staffs are very friendly.
Wonderful onsen to visit on the way back from Soni Highlands!
¥900/adult and ¥500/child
The shower area has shampoo, conditioner and body wash and you can rent a towel.
It has an outdoors bath (rotemburo) where you can soak in hot spring water watching the mountains and trees and cool down on a bench or chair.
There are 2 baths inside, a sauna and an icy cold water bath if you are too hot and want a mini heart attack :)
You can travel between those baths freely and soak as much as you want. The outdoors bath water has a suds feel so the skin becomes very smooth after that.
There’s a restaurant and an udon shop right next to it as well as a veggie stand (butter squash and nano cucumbers, tsukemono, rice flour pancake mix etc).
Beautiful place.
ありがとうございました。
Visited here from the sonikogen highlands, I was kinda rushing to leave cause my friend needs to take the bullet train back to Tokyo later from Shin-Osaka but since it's very close so we gave it a try and I feel lucky that we did it. It's more than my expectations.
Good points:
1. The baths and facilities are nice.
2. The water temperature is nice and friendly with people are not used with most of Japanese onsen (but for most people who loves onsen it will be not hot enough, but for me it's perfect)
3. The views are very cool, especially the outside rock bath.
Bad points:
1. Really hard to visit (I wonder if there is a bus or something)
2. Pretty far from Osaka, not recommend for new driver cause it's mountains roads
3. The price (900¥/person) is a little bit high if compare with most onsen. Even more expensive than arima onsen
4. The water maybe not have enough minerals ( I'm sorry that i don't know how to explain but I think usually Japanese people consider it's a good onsen water if it has their own standards with the water and I feel like the water here is just water)
Overall, it's a really good onsen and you really should visit if you can.
I even like it more than arima onsen.
Authentic Japanese hot spring experience. One amazing outdoor bath with pretty view (although can mostly only enjoy view while standing up, not while sitting in the bath). Two indoor baths, one sauna.
The place is cozy. I like the outdoor onsen. It was sunny the time I went there and around 15 degrees outside. It was my first outdoor onsen. I like seeing the blue sky, the mountains and the trees while soaking myself in the onsen.
The facility operates from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM (last admission at 8:00 PM) from April 1 to November 30, and from 11:00 AM to 8:30 PM (last admission at 7:30 PM) from December 1 to March 31. The facility is closed on Wednesdays, and if a national holiday falls on Wednesday, the subsequent Thursday becomes the closing day.
Yes, the facility features two distinct bath areas that alternate weekly. The Stone Bathroom and Wood Bathroom are provided for male or female customers alternately on a weekly basis. This rotation system ensures all guests can experience both the highland views from the Stone Bathroom and the mountain panoramas from the Wood Bathroom during their visits.
The facility is equipped with complete amenities including 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, body soap, and towels, allowing visitors to enjoy the hot spring experience without bringing their own bathing supplies.
Yes, there is a restaurant within the facility. Visitors can eat local cuisine of Soni Village inside the building. Guests buy tickets just outside the restaurant and hand them to the waitress, and the seating features low tables with holes underneath for comfortable sitting. The restaurant is part of the larger Soni Kogen Farm Garden complex, which also includes a bakery and craft brewery.
Yes, visitors can reach the hot spring by car, with the journey taking approximately 1.5 hours from Nara. Paid parking is available at the nearby Soni Kogen Farm Garden complex where the hot spring is located. The facility's address is 830 Taroji, Soni, Uda District, making it accessible for those traveling by private vehicle.
