KAMENOI HOTEL ARIMA — Hotel in Kobe

This is an old onsen hotel, while it is clean, the facilities are aged. Onsen is indoor, if you think of having a nice relaxing onsen bath with good environment, this is not your place. It just provided you with soaking in hot natural spring, that's all. If you can't speak Japanese, avoid this hotel. There is an English spoken staff at reception but she is not there often. At time of visit, 17/4/24, temp is turning warm in day hours, centralized air conditioning was still under heater mode until 25/4/2024, the room was very hot although outside temperature was about 22-24C and we opened all windows. They had provided us a mobile fan that we turned it on even at night with outside temperature about 12-17C because ventilation was not good. The Tatami beds are just 2 layers of mattress of 1 inch each.Shuttle bus service from hotel to bus station can only be provided during check in and check out. Dinner in Kaiseki style was good, but portion was small. Service was very good. I saw other tables are served with different variety of food, but there were no options for us to choose during hotel booking.Breakfast spread was below expectation, I can't understand why many reviews commented good breakfast variety.Hotel also provide Fukata for free to wear at hotel, which is a very good experience to us.Anyway, when this review is posted, the hotel will just response with "thank you, noted" as standard response, as you may observe in...

This is basically a Japanese ryokan with beautiful Japanese tatami style rooms. It boasts an onsen with the famous Arima golden soup. Unlike in other traditional onsen ryokans that I've stayed in, breakfast is modern buffet style, while dinner is taken in a restaurant in the hotel, not in your own room. Good was good, though not as lavish as some I've had in other parts of japan.||The location is quite a distance from the train station, though still within walking distance, about 20 minutes. However, I wouldn't recommend that you walk to the hotel from the station with a heavy luggage as it is up slope all the way and the way is not so obvious. You can call them and they will come and pick you up, or I suppose you could get the tourist information centre to help you call. I couldn't be bothered and jumped into a taxi straight out of the train station and it cost me 680 yen. ||However, the hotel is very near to the Arima onsen ropeway station from Mt. Rokko. I spent a morning up Mt Rokko, the scenarios were great and the ride up from Arimaonsen was very enjoyable and scenic.||Nobody speaks English here. It wasn't a problem for me but you should probably brush up on your onsen etiquette first because unlike other places such as the ryokans in Kinosaki, this hotel does not provide any instructions for foreigners on...

This is basically a Japanese ryokan with beautiful Japanese tatami style rooms. It boasts an onsen with the famous Arima golden soup. Unlike in other traditional onsen ryokans that I've stayed in, breakfast is modern buffet style, while dinner is taken in a restaurant in the hotel, not in your own room. Good was good, though not as lavish as some I've had in other parts of japan.||The location is quite a distance from the train station, though still within walking distance, about 20 minutes. However, I wouldn't recommend that you walk to the hotel from the station with a heavy luggage as it is up slope all the way and the way is not so obvious. You can call them and they will come and pick you up, or I suppose you could get the tourist information centre to help you call. I couldn't be bothered and jumped into a taxi straight out of the train station and it cost me 680 yen. ||However, the hotel is very near to the Arima onsen ropeway station from Mt. Rokko. I spent a morning up Mt Rokko, the scenarios were great and the ride up from Arimaonsen was very enjoyable and scenic.||Nobody speaks English here. It wasn't a problem for me but you should probably brush up on your onsen etiquette first because unlike other places such as the ryokans in Kinosaki, this hotel does not provide any instructions for foreigners on...