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Outdoor onsen (rotenburo) in Oita
116 baths in Oita. An open-air bath is the single most common reason to pick one onsen over another.
Beppu · Multiple outdoor pools confirmed including outdoor family bath and general outdoor pools.
Price: ¥1,160 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · An outdoor bath featuring the Lamune spring water is available.
Price: ¥800 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesHita · Several outdoor communal baths are situated beside the river and are a main attraction.
Price: ¥1,000 · Day visitors: YesNakatsu · An outdoor bath is present and described as spacious with garden-like scenery, though some reviewers found the water too cool and debris in the water.
Price: ¥700 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesOita · Multiple visitors describe an outdoor bath including a tsubo-yu (jar bath).
Price: ¥430 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: Not allowedYufu · Numerous reviewers from 2026-03 to 2026-08 describe using a separate outdoor bath in addition to the indoor bath.
Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Terraced outdoor baths (tana-yu) offering views of Beppu Bay and city skyline from multiple vantage points.
Day visitors: YesOita · The communal bath includes an outdoor section with a view of Beppu Bay.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesBeppu · The sand bath is located outdoors on the beach with ocean views; one review notes ocean is not visible from the main bath due to a fence.
Price: ¥2,500 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Outdoor foot bath noted by one visitor.
Price: ¥700 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: AllowedBeppu · Reviews from 2026-01 to 2026-09 confirm outdoor bath available.
Price: ¥300 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Tattoos: AllowedBeppu · Outdoor bath available; one review in March 2026 noted it was green and discolored, discouraging entry.
Price: ¥580 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesOita · An outdoor bath exists but one side has been closed for heat-shock safety measures and its mist sauna has long been out of order.
Price: ¥430 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesHita · Guests from 2026-02 to 2026-07 reported an open-air bath with mountain views as part of the main bathing facilities.
Price: ¥1,200 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesBeppu · Facility has two outdoor baths: one on ground level and one viewing bath on the second floor (2026-01 to 2026-09).
Price: ¥620 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Outdoor bath (rotenburo) and natural steam bath (mushi-yu / steam sauna) present as of 2026.
Price: ¥300 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: AllowedBeppu · Outdoor bath with warm temperature and pour-over waterfall; open-air bathing deck; enclosed by high walls limiting view.
Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: Not allowed · Payment: Cards acceptedTaketa · There is one outdoor bath, described by different reviewers as pleasantly warm or very lukewarm.
Price: ¥700 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Multiple outdoor baths are available, including rock pools and various styles, on floors 1 and 2.
Price: ¥1,300 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Payment: Cash onlyBeppu · Multiple open-air bath options available, including named 'Tsurumi' at premium price from 2026-04 to 2025-09.
Price: ¥1,800 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): PartlyKokonoe · Numerous outdoor baths with mountain scenery are the facility's main feature, praised across 2026 reviews.
Price: ¥1,000 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Tattoos: Not allowedOita · The facility has a rooftop open-air bath with a carbonated pool overlooking the city and bay.
Price: ¥2,700 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards acceptedTaketa · An outdoor bath exists but visitors reported in 2025-2026 that it is only operated on weekends and holidays, with the water drained on weekdays.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesBeppu · Multiple open-air baths in natural settings; private baths accessible via narrow suspension bridge; some communal outdoor soaking areas.
Price: ¥2,500 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Large outdoor bath is the main feature; reviews describe milky sulfur water and scenic views.
Price: ¥800 · Day visitors: YesOita · Reviewers from 2026-03 to 2026-08 consistently described a spacious scenic outdoor bath.
Price: ¥1,100 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedBeppu · Outdoor communal baths confirmed; mud bath and regular bath are outdoor facilities.
Price: ¥900 · Day visitors: Yes · Payment: Cash onlyYufu · Several rooms include a private outdoor (rotenburo) bath in addition to an indoor bath, per reviews from 2025-2026.
Nakatsu · There is a small open-air bath separate from the indoor bath, though its temperature was described inconsistently.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · The foot bath seating area is entirely outdoors; visitors note extreme daytime heat and cold-weather challenges from January.
Day visitors: Limited hoursTaketa · Multiple reviewers described relaxing in the facility's outdoor bath, sometimes with mountain views.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: YesYufu · The communal large bath includes an outdoor tub, described as warm to slightly hot depending on visit.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: Not allowedBungotakada · The facility has an outdoor bath area with multiple small tubs, including a source-fed pool.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): PartlyUsa · There is a small outdoor bath in addition to the indoor bath, but it is closed seasonally from roughly December to March.
Price: ¥550 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesYufu · Nearly every reviewer describes bathing in the open-air (rotenburo) bath, which is the facility's main attraction.
Price: ¥430 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedUsa · The main communal bath is an outdoor rotenburo, described across many years as small but pleasant.
Price: ¥550 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Four outdoor concrete baths in a stream valley, exposed to sky (2025-2026).
Price: Free · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesHita · Multiple reviewers from 2025-2026 described a rooftop open-air bath alongside an indoor bath.
Day visitors: Limited hours · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedTaketa · The facility has outdoor baths overlooking a waterfall, praised repeatedly from 2025-11 to 2026-08.
Price: ¥1,000 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Multiple outdoor baths confirmed across all review dates 2025-07 to 2026-09.
Price: Free · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · This is an entirely open-air pool set in a riverbed with no roof or enclosure.
Price: Free · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · Nearly all reviews describe both an indoor bath and an outdoor bath overlooking the river in each private room, from 2024 through 2026.
Price: ¥1,500Kokonoe · One visitor described an outdoor bath with a snow view in winter.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: YesHita · The main communal bath is an outdoor (semi-open) rock bath with a river view.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Tattoos: Private bath onlyKokonoe · There is an outdoor bath, but many reviewers from January to June found it lukewarm to cold, especially in winter.
Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesYufu · The facility has both an indoor and an outdoor bath.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Private reserved outdoor baths exist; communal bath has no outdoor section.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedKusu · An outdoor bath exists but was reported closed or unavailable during some visits (2025).
Price: ¥550 · Day visitors: YesBungotakada · Multiple reviewers mention an outdoor bath, often cooler than the indoor one.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesKokonoe · Some private rooms are half-open-air (hanroten) baths with outside views.
Price: ¥1,500 · Day visitors: YesYufu · Multiple visitors bathed in open-air baths, both in-room and shared, from 2025 to 2026.
Day visitors: Limited hoursOita · Visitors across 2025-2026 described a spacious outdoor rock bath fed by the spring water.
Price: ¥410 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: Not allowedNakatsu · Reviewers described an outdoor bath with rotating special baths, noting mosquitoes and dark surroundings at night.
Price: ¥650 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Tattoos: AllowedHita · Most rooms have their own open-air bath, and the shared communal bathhouse also includes an outdoor bath.
Day visitors: Limited hoursTaketa · Multiple visitors from 2025 to 2026 described an outdoor bath, often noting it runs on the cooler side.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedBeppu · Outdoor baths available as add-on option costing 500 yen extra; rocky pool-style construction.
Price: ¥2,100 · Day visitors: YesYufu · The facility has both an indoor bath and a semi-open-air outdoor bath.
Price: ¥300 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): Yes · Tattoos: AllowedBeppu · Facility has communal indoor bath (separated by gender) and outdoor private rental bath with seasonal amenities.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Limited hoursBeppu · Outdoor bath is a separate facility accessible from the indoor bath building. Highly praised by visitors for atmosphere and water quality.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · The facility has one outdoor bath, described as spacious and slightly cooler than the indoor bath.
Price: ¥480 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Outdoor baths exist as private rentable baths, described across many stays from 2023 to 2025.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Limited hours · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKusu · Some private rooms have outdoor or semi-outdoor baths open to the air (2025-2026).
Price: ¥1,400 · Day visitors: YesKusu · Visitors consistently described two open-air (rotenburo) tubs as the main bathing facility.
Price: ¥200 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · The facility has two outdoor baths including a rare Hokutoseki mineral-stone tub.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesYufu · Multiple reviewers from 2025 to 2026 describe using and enjoying the outdoor bath, some noting a mountain view.
Price: ¥520 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesBeppu · All or nearly all baths are outdoor, scattered throughout a bamboo forest setting.
Price: ¥900 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Explicitly described as outdoor bath with open-air bathing.
Price: ¥700 · Day visitors: Yes · Payment: Cards acceptedOita · The facility has an outdoor bath with a waterfall feature and a lie-down area.
Price: ¥430 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesOita · Visitors describe an outdoor bath in addition to the indoor bath.
Price: ¥340 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: NoNakatsu · Reviewers consistently describe one outdoor bath alongside the indoor bath.
Price: ¥510 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Free outdoor foot-steam facility available outside the main bath.
Price: ¥100 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · There is one outdoor bath in addition to indoor baths, noted as slightly cooler than the indoor tubs.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: YesKokonoe · Some of the private baths are semi-outdoor (hanroten) with open windows facing greenery or the river.
Price: ¥1,700 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Facility has 3–5 outdoor baths with roofs or open-air sections; all baths are outdoor (2024–2026).
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Hita · The outdoor bath exists but is a cold-water pool rather than a heated bath, noted repeatedly from 2023 to 2025.
Price: ¥900 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesTaketa · Visitors from 2025 to 2026 described warm outdoor baths near the river-facing walking area.
Price: ¥800 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKunisaki · Visitors consistently described an outdoor bath with mountain views, in addition to an indoor bath.
Price: ¥420 · Day visitors: Limited hoursHita · The main rock bath is described as half-open-air (han-roten), covered by sheeting rather than a solid roof.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKokonoe · There is at least one open-air rotenburo room among the private bathing rooms.
Price: ¥300 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): Yes · Payment: Cash onlyUsuki · An outdoor bath area with waterfall-style baths and a lukewarm pool was reported from 2022 to 2023.
Price: ¥550 · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): NoKusu · Reviewers from 2025 to 2026 describe both an indoor bath and a lukewarm outdoor bath.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesNakatsu · An outdoor bath beside the river is present and frequently praised for its riverside setting from 2023 to 2026.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): Yes · Payment: Cash onlyBeppu · Outdoor baths available in some private rooms; water temperature can be adjusted by adding cold water.
Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedBungotakada · Reviewers consistently describe an outdoor bath alongside the indoor one, sometimes noted as lukewarm.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · An outdoor bath exists but several visitors in 2025-2026 found it drained or closed for the winter season.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesYufu · Reviewers described a private outdoor bath with stone tub and garden or tree views, praised as quiet and beautiful.
Price: ¥1,000 · Day visitors: YesHita · The facility centers on multiple outdoor riverside baths across most reviewed years.
Price: ¥1,000 · Day visitors: YesKokonoe · Visitors across years described bathing in the outdoor tub, though it can be very hot.
Price: ¥800 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesBeppu · Outdoor bamboo shower area present on grounds.
Price: ¥100 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): Yes · Payment: Cash onlyYufu · The facility's main feature is an outdoor bath, described repeatedly as its highlight.
Price: ¥1,200 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: NoHita · The facility is a single open-air riverside bath with no indoor bathing area.
Price: ¥100 · Day visitors: Yes · Payment: Cash onlyHita · The bath is an open-air riverside tub, with several small outdoor pools along the river according to multiple reviewers.
Price: ¥100 · Day visitors: Yes · Payment: Cash onlyKusu · The facility has one outdoor bath, generally described as milder than the indoor bath.
Price: ¥250 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKokonoe · Some family bath rooms include a small outdoor tub, though it can feel too cool in winter, from 2021 to 2025.
Price: ¥1,500 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesTaketa · A 2025 visitor described a small outdoor bath alongside an indoor bath.
Price: ¥330 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Private baths are outdoor with some covered; communal baths include indoor and outdoor options with and without roofs.
Price: ¥2,500 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesYufu · The facility consists of an open-air bath, repeatedly described as the main or only bath.
Price: ¥1,200 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: No · Payment: Cards & QR acceptedHita · Some private bath rooms are open-air with no windows overlooking the river, and a separate open-air bath is also available.
Price: ¥3,000 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · Outdoor baths existed but low water flow made them frequently unavailable (2020–2024); when open, charged 700 yen per hour in earlier years.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKokonoe · Outdoor bath available with views of Mount Mimata and Kuuju mountains; one outdoor bath may lack mountain views.
Price: ¥1,500 · Day visitors: Limited hours · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesYufu · The facility has one small outdoor bath in addition to the indoor pool.
Price: ¥310 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesKokonoe · The facility consists of a single natural rock open-air bath with two falling-water (utase) jets.
Price: ¥400 · Day visitors: Yes · Payment: Cash onlyTaketa · An outdoor bath exists and is usually described as very lukewarm, though one 2024 visitor noted it was temporarily closed and cold-only.
Price: ¥600 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesBeppu · The sand bath is outdoors on a beach with views of the ocean and sound of waves; located beachfront near Beppu harbor.
Price: ¥2,500 · Day visitors: YesKokonoe · The facility consists of a single outdoor tub, with washing area also outdoors in some reports.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Yes · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): Yes · Payment: Cash onlyNakatsu · Many visitors described multiple outdoor baths, though some were periodically closed for construction between 2024 and 2026.
Price: ¥700 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesSaiki · Reviewers describe an outdoor or semi-outdoor bath with ocean views.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesUsa · An outdoor tub, generally described as much cooler than the indoor bath, was consistently reported from 2022 to 2026.
Price: ¥300 · Day visitors: YesBeppu · A 2021 visitor confirmed an outdoor bath is available; scenic view noted.
Day visitors: YesBeppu · Outdoor bath with view available; one visitor found it under repair in 2024 (2023–2025).
Price: ¥800 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesOita · One visitor described an outdoor bath alongside the indoor tubs.
Price: ¥500 · Day visitors: Yes · Sauna: YesTaketa · Visitors describe a warmer outdoor bath located along the river.
Price: ¥800Beppu · Hand bath located at Myoban hot spring village, implying outdoor facility.
Taketa · Every private room includes its own outdoor bath with mountain views.
Price: ¥3,000 · Day visitors: No · Sauna: YesTaketa · One 2024 visitor described an open semi-outdoor bath and an outdoor bath at this facility.
Day visitors: YesKokonoe · The facility includes an outdoor bath with scenic views.
Sauna: No · Free-flowing (kakenagashi): YesAlso in Oita
