Funaoka Onsen Changing Room

A Public Bath of 1923 with Carved Ceilings

The Funaoka Onsen Changing Room (船岡温泉脱衣場) is the changing-room building of a public bath, with bold wood carvings on its transoms and ceiling and a cusped gable over the entrance of 1923, altered in 1928 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 two-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 99 square metres; registration number 26-0153.

Carvings and a Cusped Gable

The changing-room building of Funaoka Onsen, a public bath at Murasakino in Kita Ward, Kyoto, dates from 1923 and was one of the buildings put up as the bath of the Funaokaro, a restaurant inn (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Of two storeys in timber, it has the entrance and the bandai attendant's seat at the front of the ground floor, the changing room behind, and 2 Japanese-style rooms upstairs.

With bold wood carvings on its transoms and ceiling, and a front on Kuramaguchi-dori with a cusped karahafu gable added in 1928, it is a building long loved by local people (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape.

What to Look For

At the changing room, look for the bold carvings on the transoms and ceiling and the cusped gable over the entrance, added in 1928 (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.