Hyogo Kobe City
A premier Japanese-style resort where you can enjoy spectacular views of Kobe Port and natural hot springs from underground
"Kobe Minato Onsen Ren" is a natural hot spring ryokan in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. It is a luxurious resort space with spectacular views of Kobe Port, surrounded by the sea on 270 degrees. Its private spring water, drawn from deep underground, is a high-quality hot spring with both warming and skin-beautifying effects. In addition to a wide variety of indoor and outdoor baths, it offers sauna, cold plunge bath, bedrock bathing, an indoor fitness pool, and an outdoor heated pool, providing opportunities for health promotion and deep relaxation. With meals that inherit the flavors of a high-end traditional restaurant and refined guest rooms, guests can enjoy a luxurious day whether staying overnight or visiting for the day.

An indoor large bath featuring the private spring water, Kobe Minato Onsen, drawn from deep underground, along with a high-concentration carbonated spring and seasonal baths. With its silky feel and excellent moisturizing and skin-beautifying effects, you can leisurely enjoy high-quality natural hot spring water while looking out over the karesansui courtyard.

An open-air large bath where you can enjoy bathing while feeling the sea breeze from Kobe Port. From free-flowing spring water to tsubo-yu and shelf baths, it offers a wide variety of bath styles, allowing you to experience superb relaxation as if wrapped in the blue of the sky and sea.

A guest-only observation large bath located on the top floor, the 10th floor. It includes an observation open-air bath with a sweeping 270-degree view of the magnificent scenery of Kobe Port, a jacuzzi with a high relaxation effect, and a spacious indoor bath, letting you enjoy the changing views of the sky and sea throughout the day all to yourself.

An outdoor heated pool full of openness, surrounded by the sea and sky. You can swim in the pleasantly warmed water or relax poolside, enjoying an elegant, resort-filled atmosphere. An indoor fitness pool is also available, allowing you to achieve health benefits and refreshment at the same time.

An authentic Finnish-style dry sauna that promotes vigorous sweating while maintaining moderate humidity. It warms you gently from the core, and in a quiet, calm space, you can turn inward and focus on yourself. Experience a refreshing sweat and a complete sense of physical and mental detox.

A mist sauna wrapped in rich aroma and soft steam. With its low-temperature, high-humidity setting, you can work up a good sweat while reducing the strain on your body. The hot water flowing at your feet acts like a foot bath, gently promoting circulation throughout the body.

A vast area featuring 7 types of bedrock bathing and 1 type of lava bathing, for a total of 8 different spaces. Bedrock hot yoga lessons are also offered by specialist instructors, allowing you to release a great deal of sweat while relaxing both mind and body in a comfortable warmth. This is a high-quality healing space filled with the scent of natural aromatics.
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Kobe's mecca for enjoying natural hot springs and an authentic Finnish sauna 24 hours a day
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Scenic bathing in Kobe with views of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
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A miraculous hot spring where ancient seawater from 6,000,000 years ago gushes up from 60 km underground
JAPAN'S FINEST ONSEN & SAUNA
The Finest Onsen & Sauna in Japan
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Most of what we surveyed never even made it onto this site. This book is a further cut from what did. Our editor bathed in every onsen and sauna in it, and wrote only what they confirmed on the ground.