Asaya Hotel

The bath

The hotel owns its source, the Asaya spring, also called Kodakara no Yu. It's a simple spring that comes up at 37.1°C, colorless and odorless, pumped at 172 liters a minute. It supplies every guest room's bath as well as the shared ones.

The Sky Garden open-air bath is on the 13th floor of the Shuhokan wing, about 80 meters above the river. Its two sides swap between men and women overnight, in a pattern that reverses each month. The south side has a boat-shaped tub, the north a standing bath and a lying bath. It's open 2 p.m. to midnight (from 3 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays) and 5 a.m. to 10 a.m., and closes in strong wind or lightning. Each wing also has large indoor baths. On the 1st floor of the Shuhokan, both with saunas, and in the basement of the Hachibankan, where the men's side adds an open-air tub and a seated bath and the women's a lying bath, a nano-mist sauna and a silky bath. Dyson and ReFa dryers, a shampoo bar and ReFa shower heads are provided.

The four private baths, in black granite, rock, hinoki cypress and red granite, are circulated. They cost ¥4,000 for 50 minutes, 2 p.m. to midnight (last entry 11 p.m.), for up to five people. Book at check-in, or by phone for times after 8 p.m. Day bathing ended in July 2014.