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Rinraku Open-Air Bath

3.8★ · 8 Google ratings · Minakami, Gunma · 露天風呂「凛楽」

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✓ Natural hot-spring water✓ Free-flowing source water✓ Rest area

Before you go

Can you bathe here?

Day visitors

Staying guests onlyThis bath is reserved for hotel guests only; day visitors are turned away.stated by 2 visitors · Apr 2021 – Jan 2022

Tattoos

Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 6 recent reviews we read or on the facility's website

How we know this

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Day visitors

This bath is reserved for hotel guests only; day visitors are turned away.

stated by 2 visitors · Apr 2021 – Jan 2022

The bath

What you’ll find

A scenic hotel-guests-only outdoor bath at Minakami Kogen Hotel 200, framed by birch trees in summer and snow in winter, occasionally visited by wild monkeys.

Outdoor bath

✓ YesThis is an outdoor-only bath at the hotel.stated by 5 visitors · Nov 2020 – Feb 2025

View

ForestThe bath overlooks birch woods, with the scenery changing seasonally from greenery to snow.stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2020 – Feb 2025

Lodging

✓ YesThe bath belongs to Minakami Kogen Hotel 200, a lodging property.stated by 3 visitors · Nov 2020 – Apr 2021

Guide

What visitors add

Outdoor bath & sauna

The facility is an outdoor bath (rotenburo) with white-birch and seasonal scenery, lit at night; four distinct reviews praise the view (summer birches, autumn foliage, winter snow). No sauna is mentioned. One reviewer notes many monkeys around.

stated by 5 visitors · Nov 2020 – Feb 2025

Day-use visits

This open-air bath is for guests staying at Minakami Kogen Hotel 200 only: two reviewers state it is hotel-guest-exclusive, and one of them (Jan 2022) was turned away as a non-guest. No day-use access is reported.

stated by 2 visitors · Apr 2021 – Jan 2022

The water

Temperature reports conflict: one reviewer (Feb 2025, evening) found the water quite lukewarm, while another (Apr 2021) says it is on the hot side first thing in the morning; the latter also praises the spring quality without naming the spring type.

stated by 2 visitors · Apr 2021 – Feb 2025

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