Kobe Rokko Onsen
- Location
- Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 42 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Kobe, the cosmopolitan port city and capital of Hyogo Prefecture, is Japan's most international city, its deep-water harbor opening to foreign trade in 1868 creating the elegant Ijinkan Western residences of Kitano, the Nankinmachi Chinatown, and the multicultural cuisine culture that gave Japan beef tenpura, sweet anpan bread, and the legendary Kobe wagyu beef in a city shaped by global exchange. Kobe Rokko Onsen draws on sodium and bicarbonate thermal waters from the volcanic geological resources of the Rokko Mountain range rising steeply above the city, offering restorative baths with spectacular views across the Osaka Bay from the Rokko highland spa district where Japan's first golf course was laid out by Arthur Groom in 1903. The Rokko Mountain cable car ascent and garden, the Nunobiki Herb Garden on the mountain slope, and the Kobe Luminarie light festival commemorating the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake make the Rokko spa district one of the most scenically magnificent urban thermal destinations in Japan, combining volcanic mountain mineral waters with one of the great port city views of the Pacific world.