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A split noren curtain carrying a family crest, lit from above, with Japanese characters on itShoji screens slid open at the bottom onto autumn maples and a river belowA wooden table and two chairs before open shoji, mountains beyond in golden-hour lightA two-storey timber building lit warmly at night, with a row of round lanterns along its front

Arima Onsen, Hyogo

Arima Onsen: What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Arima Onsen is about 30 minutes from Shin-Kobe or Sannomiya by subway and the Kobe Electric Railway. Its two public baths are Kin no Yu, for the brown kinsen (adults ¥800, ¥650 on weekdays), and Gin no Yu, for the colourless ginsen (¥700, ¥550 on weekdays); a ticket for both is ¥1,200. They close on different Tuesdays.

The inns on the station side are 3 to 10 minutes on foot from Arima Onsen Station. The hillside inns, including Arima Grand Hotel and Taketoritei Maruyama, run free pick-ups from the station.

Arima Onsen: things to do, where to stay