Funaoka Onsen Bath Building

A Bath Hall of 1932 with Bridge Railings

The Funaoka Onsen Bath Building (船岡温泉浴場) is a bath building in reinforced concrete with round windows, stone railings from the Kikusui Bridge and decorative tiles of 1932 in Murasakino Minamifunaokacho, Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on July 1, 2003 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey reinforced concrete building with a building area of 121 square metres; registration number 26-0154.

Round Windows and Bridge Railings

The bath building of Funaoka Onsen, of 1932, replaced the brick bath of the early days (Agency for Cultural Affairs). A single storey in reinforced concrete, it holds the corridor from the changing room and the men's and women's baths, with the old boiler room at the back.

Round windows open in its raised clerestory, stone railings from the Kikusui Bridge that stood at Senbon Kuramaguchi are reused, and the inside is lined with decorative tiles, a striking design that people have long enjoyed (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

At the bath building, look for the reused stone railings of the Kikusui Bridge and the decorative tiles inside (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The owner of Funaoka Onsen is not listed in the Agency record. According to a GOOD LUCK TRIP page supervised by Funaoka Onsen (updated August 14, 2026), it still runs as a public bath, open 15:00 to 23:30 (from 8:00 on Sundays) and closed on Tuesdays, with an entry fee of 550 yen. The four buildings are introduced together on the Funaoka Onsen page.