Arima Onsen, Kita-ku, Kobe — an hour from Osaka Station Ryokan with four free reservable baths ★★★★☆

Arima Onsen Taketoritei Maruyama

有馬温泉 竹取亭円山

Does Arima Onsen Taketoritei Maruyama 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.

Four private baths, free, and no booking: the ryokan says to use whichever is empty whenever you like. That is unusual — most reservable baths are charged for, or taken by the time you ask — and it means a stay here needs no seal and no permission.

Show this at the front desk

当館の貸切風呂は、空いているお時間に自由にご利用いただけるスタイルとなっております

The operator’s own wording, copied from the page named under “How we know” below. Holding up your phone settles the question faster than explaining it.

Where it is

Shinkaichi STN Kobe Electric Arima line 1 h 4 from Osaka STN Osaka/Umeda STN Osaka Loop Line Kansai Airport 40 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 Taketoritei Maruyama · 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: taketoritei.com/spa/

Best for: Bathing more than once a day without booking a thing

Both of Arima's waters are here: the iron-brown 金泉 and the clear 銀泉. Some rooms also have an open-air bath of their own. 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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