Is the water free-flowing spring water?

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Tamaki-no-Yu (Open-Air)

4.2★ · 10 Google ratings · Minakami, Gunma · 玉城乃湯(露天)

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

Before you go

Can you bathe here?

Tattoos

Not known · call aheadno policy stated in the 7 recent reviews we read

How we know this

Watch out

Chlorinated

Reviewers report a chlorine smell and confirm the water is disinfected/chlorinated.

stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2022 – Jul 2024

The bath

What you’ll find

A newer, spacious open-air bath at the Hoshi Onsen ryokan complex with good scenery and even a mixed-bathing option, but its circulated, heated, and chlorinated water draws unfavorable comparison to the ryokan's famous flow-through Hoshi-no-Yu.

Outdoor bath

✓ YesThis is a newer, spacious open-air bath with good scenery.stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2020 – Nov 2022

Restaurant

✓ YesOne guest praised the food served at the ryokan.stated by 1 visitor · May 2024

Lodging

✓ YesThis bath is part of a ryokan where reviewers stayed overnight, including one for 4 days.stated by 2 visitors · Jan 2024 – May 2024

The water

Free-flowing (kakenagashi)

NoThe bath runs on a circulated/filtered system rather than a natural flow-through source; one reviewer explicitly preferred the ryokan's other, more traditional bath (Hoshi-no-Yu) over this one.stated by 3 visitors · Nov 2020 – Jul 2024

Heated

✓ YesThe water is artificially heated (加温) rather than used at natural spring temperature.stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2022 – Jul 2024

Recirculated

✓ YesThe bath water is circulated and filtered rather than flow-through, confirmed across three reviews.stated by 3 visitors · Nov 2022 – Jul 2024

Chlorinated

✓ YesReviewers report a chlorine smell and confirm the water is disinfected/chlorinated.stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2022 – Jul 2024

Guide

What visitors add

Water handling

Three reviewers (Nov 2022, Jul 2023, Jul 2024) report this bath is recirculated/filtered, heated, and disinfected — NOT kakenagashi; one of them (Jul 2024) adds it smells of chlorine.

stated by 3 visitors · Nov 2022 – Jul 2024

Outdoor bath & sauna

Two reviewers (Nov 2020 and Nov 2022) report there is an outdoor bath (rotenburo), one calling the view from it good and the building relatively new/modern and spacious. No reviewer mentions a sauna.

stated by 2 visitors · Nov 2020 – Nov 2022

For foreign visitors

Two reviews (Mar and May 2024) were written in English by foreign visitors, both 5 stars; one, describing a 4-day stay at the inn, called the staff 'super helpfull and so sweet' and the food amazing. Neither mentions English signage or language support specifically.

stated by 2 visitors · Mar 2024 – May 2024

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