Hyogo Kobe City
Kobe Minato Onsen Ren
A luxurious Japanese-style resort with spectacular views of Kobe Port and a natural onsen welling up from deep underground
- Ocean / Lake View
- Onsen Ryokan
- Reserved onsen available
- Natural Hot Spring
- Free-flow from source
- Sauna Available
About Kobe Minato Onsen Ren
Kobe Minato Onsen Ren is a natural onsen inn in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. With the sea wrapping around it for 270 degrees, it is a resort of the highest order with spectacular views of Kobe Port. Its own source, welling up from deep underground, gives high-quality water that both keeps you warm and is good for the skin. Alongside a wide range of indoor and outdoor baths, there is a sauna, a cold plunge and a warm-stone room, as well as an indoor fitness pool and an outdoor heated pool, all offered with better health and deep relaxation in mind. Meals that carry on the flavors of a fine ryotei restaurant and refined guest rooms complete the picture, so whether you stay the night or come for a day visit, you can spend a truly luxurious day.
Hot SpringONSEN
Indoor main bathhouse
The indoor main bathhouse brings together its own source, Kobe Minato Onsen, welling up from deep underground, along with a strongly carbonated bath, a seasonal calendar bath and more. With its silky, slightly viscous feel, this fine natural onsen excels at moisturizing and beautifying the skin, and you can enjoy it at your leisure while gazing out at a karesansui dry-landscape courtyard garden.
Open-air main bathhouse
An expansive open-air bathhouse where you can soak while feeling the sea breeze off Kobe Port. Water fed straight from the source, never recirculated, is joined by ceramic urn baths, tiered shelf baths and many other tubs, for supreme relaxation that feels like being wrapped in the blue of sky and sea.
Panoramic main bathhouse
Set on the 10th floor, the top floor, this panoramic main bathhouse is reserved for overnight guests. With a panoramic open-air bath that takes in 270 degrees of Kobe Port’s sweeping scenery, a deeply relaxing Jacuzzi and a spacious indoor bath, it lets you have the spectacular views of sky and sea, which change with the time of day, all to yourself.
Oceans Spa
An outdoor heated pool with a wonderful sense of openness, surrounded by sea and sky. Swim in the pleasantly warm water or relax at the poolside and spend an elegant time full of resort atmosphere. An indoor fitness pool sits alongside it, so you can boost your health and refresh yourself at the same time.
SaunaSAUNA
Dry sauna
An authentic Finnish-style dry sauna that keeps a moderate level of humidity while drawing out a good, thorough sweat. The heat works slowly into your core, and in this quiet, calm space you can turn inward and spend time with your own thoughts. With a refreshing sweat, you can feel a detox of both body and mind.
Mist sauna
A mist sauna where you are wrapped in rich aromatic scents and soft vapor. Its low temperature and high humidity let you work up a proper sweat while going easy on the body. Warm water flowing at your feet acts as a foot bath, gently boosting circulation throughout your whole body.
Hot Stone SpaHOT STONE SPA
Hachirenge
A spacious area with eight distinct spaces in all: seven warm-stone rooms and one lava bath. Instructors also lead hot yoga classes on the warm stones, so you can sweat generously while body and mind relax in the soothing heat. It is a refined, restorative space scented with natural aromas.
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Facility Information
- Address
- Kobe Minato Onsen Ren, 1-1 Shinkocho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0041
- Business Hours
- 06:00〜00:00
[Day visits] 6:00 to midnight
- Closed Days
- Open Year-Round
- Gender Access
- Gender Separated
- Tattoo Policy (Communal Bath)
- No Tattoos
- Official Website
- View official site
Access
By car
- About 1 minute from the Kyobashi entrance/exit of the Hanshin Expressway Route 3 Kobe Line
- About 1 minute from the Shinko exit of the Harbor Highway
By train and bus
- About 5 minutes by taxi from Sannomiya Station (all lines) (about 20 minutes on foot)
- About 5 minutes by taxi from JR Motomachi Station (about 15 minutes on foot)
Shuttle
- A free dedicated shuttle bus runs from in front of Sannomiya Station
Parking available
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