According to Ministry of the Environment statistics, Hyogo (Kinki) has 78 onsen areas and 443 hot-spring sources. This page lists 38 onsen in Hyogo with their water types. The most common water type among them is Chloride Spring (19 onsen).
Source: Ministry of the Environment, FY2024 Hot Spring Utilization Survey (as of March 31, 2025). Best-known onsen = most annual Wikipedia views.
| Water Type | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Chloride Spring | 19 | 50% |
| Simple Thermal Spring | 10 | 26% |
| Radium Spring | 4 | 11% |
| Bicarbonate Spring | 2 | 5% |
| Sulfate Spring | 1 | 3% |
| Carbon Dioxide Spring | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 1 | 3% |
| Facility | Water Type |
|---|---|
| Kin no Yu (Gold Bath) A communal bathhouse run by the city of Kobe. The iconic outer bath of Arima Onsen, where visitors can easily enjoy the reddish-brown 'gold spring' water. | Chloride Spring Iron-bearing sodium – strong chloride spring |
| Gin no Yu (Silver Bath) Also run by the city of Kobe, this communal bathhouse offers the clear, colorless 'silver spring' (a carbonated, radium-bearing spring). | Radium Spring Radon spring (carbonated spring) |
| Taiko no Yu | Unknown |
| Nature Spa Takarazuka | Unknown |
| Nada Onsen | Chloride Spring Sodium – bicarbonate/chloride low-temperature spring |
| Hana no Yu | Radium Spring Simple weakly radioactive cold mineral spring (weakly alkaline, drinkable) |
| Kitamaekan | Unknown |
| Nanakama Onsen Yurakukan | Unknown |
| Kato City Takino Exchange & Wellness Center | Chloride Spring Chloride spring (contains calcium, sodium and chloride ions, etc.) |
| Onsen Town | Summary |
|---|---|
| Arima Onsen Legends & Origins | According to legend, in the age of the gods, the deities Okuninushi and Sukunahiko discovered the hot spring after seeing three injured crows heal their wounds by washing in a pool of water. The Nihon Shoki records Emperor Jomei staying here for about three months in 631, and Arima is counted, along with Dogo and Shirahama, as one of Japan's 'Three Ancient Hot Springs.' Details |
| Kinosaki Onsen Literature | In 1913, Shiga Naoya, injured in a Yamanote Line train accident, conceived and wrote At Kinosaki while recuperating at the long-established inn Mikiya, publishing it in the coterie magazine Shirakaba in 1917. He returned more than ten times over his life, and a literary monument in his own hand stands at the Kinosaki Literary Museum. Kinosaki now has 23 literary monuments and is also known as a 'town of literature.' Details |
| Yumura Onsen Travelogue | A bicarbonate-spring town in Shin'onsen, famous for the Arayu, where 98°C water gushes from the source. As a stop on Tsuge Yoshiharu's travels through the Kinki region, it is included in the Kyushu/Kinki chapter of Tsuge Yoshiharu no Onsen. Details |