Arima Onsen, Kita-ku, Kobe — an hour from Osaka Station Old ryokan with rooms with their own open-air bath ★★★★☆

Arima Onsen Hyoe Koyokaku

有馬温泉 兵衛向陽閣

Does Arima Onsen Hyoe Koyokaku allow tattoos? In a private bath

Private bath only

The shared baths are restricted, but a private or in-room bath is open to you. You are bathing alone or with your own party, so the communal rule does not apply.

Several kinds of room with an open-air bath of their own, including a top-floor 和モダン room renovated in December 2025. The house has been at this address seven hundred years, which is the draw.

Where it is

Shinkaichi STN Kobe Electric Arima line 1 h 4 from Osaka STN Osaka/Umeda STN Osaka Loop Line Kansai Airport 41 km Itami Airport Hotel location
Arima-Onsen STN
The green loop is the JR Osaka Loop line, the circle that links Osaka’s main stations; the red dashes are this hotel’s train. Arima Onsen Hyoe Koyokaku · map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · open in Google Maps

What happens when you arrive

Do not use the shared baths — the rule there is a refusal, and the private bath is the whole reason this listing exists. Reserve it the way the property requires: the notes on this page say whether that is a time slot booked ahead, a request at check-in, or a phone call. Once the door is closed nobody is checking anything.

How we know

Confirmed Confirmed from official site — bath structure, not a tattoo policy

Read on: hyoe.co.jp/rooms/rotsuki/

Best for: Arima's oldest address, with the bath inside your room

Three large communal baths as well, and their rule is not published: the FAQ page returned a server error on every attempt. The ryokan publishes no tattoo rule either way, on any page read. In a bath you take by yourself that question does not arise — but do not read the silence as permission for the communal baths. One telephone call would settle those.

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