Arima Gyoen
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Does Arima Gyoen allow tattoos? In a private bath
The large bath is closed to guests with tattoos, fashion tattoos included. Four special rooms have a garden open-air bath on the silver spring.
The ryokan refuses tattoos in its large bath and says fashion tattoos count. Its Fuyo Sanso special rooms each have an open-air bath in a small garden, on the silver spring, and that is the way to bathe here.
The bath
The special rooms are numbered 700 to 703, the largest with two tatami rooms. Their baths run on the silver spring, a clear radon water.
The shared bath, the one closed to tattoos, has a gold-spring rock tub, a plain-water stone tub and a silver-spring open-air tub. The ryokan’s ¥1,300 day bath is that large bath only, so it is no use to a tattooed visitor.
The hotel
Check-in is 3 p.m. and checkout is 10 a.m.
Good to know
- Tattoos are refused in the large bath. Fashion tattoos too.
- The day bath won’t work. It is the shared bath.
Getting there
Arima-Onsen STN · Kobe Electric Railway
About 2 minutes on foot.
From Sannomiya in Kobe, take the subway to Tanigami, then the Kobe Electric Railway, changing at Arima-guchi, to Arima-Onsen; it’s about 1 hour from Osaka. Express buses from Sannomiya and Osaka also run to the Arima Onsen bus stop.
Where it is
Arima-Onsen STN
- Hankyu Kobe line 30 min
- Kobe Electric Arima line 35 min
- Shinkansen tickets Seats between any two stations, booked by date.
- Kansai Railway Pass Lite from ¥5,200 · 2 or 3 days Worth it if you’re riding the private lines from Osaka. It covers Kansai’s private railways and subways, including Hankyu from Umeda and the Kobe Electric line to Arima-Onsen. JR trains aren’t covered.
- Himeji Castle, Arima and Mt Rokko day tour Himeji Castle, a stop in Arima Onsen and the view from Mt Rokko, from Osaka.
- Japan Rail Pass from ¥53,000 · 7, 14 or 21 days For a trip that takes in several regions by Shinkansen and JR lines.
What happens when you arrive
Use the bath in your room.
How we know
Confirmed from official site (the ryokan’s bath and room pages)
※刺青（ファッションタトゥー含む）のある方の大浴場ご利用はお断りいたします。
This is the rule for the shared baths. It doesn’t apply to the private baths.
Best for: a room with its own spring bath two minutes from the station
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