HAT Kobe, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture
awa awa KOBE Natural Hot Spring Spa & Sauna
A strong value for a natural-spring outdoor bath, public sauna, outdoor cooling area and food near the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. The co-ed private sauna is a separate, higher-priced, swimsuit-required booking.
Check before bathing
- Opening hours
- 10:00–24:00; last admission 23:00. Adult admission is ¥1,000 on weekdays and ¥1,200 on weekends and holidays; elementary-school children ¥600; younger children free. Rental towel set ¥330.
- Tattoo policy
- Tattoos are generally refused. An exception is available if the tattoo can be completely covered with the facility's specified 13 × 19 cm cover seal. Children of elementary-school age and older may not bathe with an adult of the opposite sex.
Spring & water temperature
- Spring-source temperature
- 35.2°C.
- Bathing temperature
- The outdoor rock bath is listed at 42°C, after heating the 35.2°C source water.
- Spring source
- Natural spring from 752 metres underground beneath the outdoor rock bath; the current text pages do not confirm a formal spring name.
- Spring classification
- Sodium bicarbonate-chloride spring.
- pH
- Not published in current main text pages.
- Flow rate
- Not published.
- Water handling
- The natural spring is used in the outdoor rock bath. The current spa page says the 35.2°C source water is heated to 42°C. The main text pages do not fully detail water addition, circulation or disinfection pool by pool, so the whole facility is not described as source-flowing.
Bathing indications
The facility lists general bathing indications including neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, frozen shoulder, sensitivity to cold, fatigue and health maintenance. These are not a treatment guarantee.
The swimsuit-required private sauna is a separate 90-minute reservation and fee; it includes public-bath access during the booked period. Older prices and suspended private-bath offers are not current.
How to read a bath profile
Spring-source temperature and actual bathing temperature are kept separate. Each score is shown independently for comparison rather than collapsed into one overall score.
