Arima Onsen, Kobe, Hyogo
Kin no Yu (Gold Bath)
Arima's best-known gold-coloured spring is a straightforward choice for a short public-bath visit. Its strongly saline water is hot at the source, and the facility heats, disinfects and manages the bath water rather than offering untreated source water.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 08:00–22:00; last admission 21:30. Closed on the second and fourth Tuesdays (the following day when a closure falls on a public holiday) and on January 1.
- Tattoo policy
- Listed as tattoo-friendly by Kobe's official tourism information; check current entry conditions before visiting.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- About 99.4–100.5°C.
- Bathing temperature
- Approximately 42°C and 44°C in the two baths.
- Spring source
- Tenjin and Uwanari sources.
- Spring classification
- Iron- and sodium-chloride spring; strongly saline.
- pH
- Not published in the current material reviewed.
- Flow rate
- Not published in the current material reviewed.
- Water handling
- Source water is heated and disinfected. The facility drains and cleans the baths daily; this is not an untreated, no-circulation source-flowing bath.
Source temperature is not bathing temperature. Treatment includes heating and chlorine disinfection.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
