20 Ryokan in Tokyo and Surroundings

An inn at Tateyama Onsen (hot spring). You can enjoy the natural hot spring, open-air bath and meals in your room. The kaiseki (traditional Japanese course) style meals made with mountain vegetables and seafood from Boso are their pride.

A long-established hotel located at the entrance of Manyo Park, in the center of the hot spring district. The traditional tea-ceremony arbor wooden building has large baths with a rich amount of water pouring from its own original hot spring source. Open-air baths with a jet bath and a private bath are available.

A traditional Japanese style inn filled with the warmth of the wood interior. The gender-separated public bath made of lacquered Japanese cypress is a first in Japan. The kaiseki (traditional Japanese multi-course dinner) meal made of seasonal ingredients will please both the eyes and palate.

An onsen (hot spring) inn offering homely services. Its specialty, Motoyu Yoromeshi (rice cooked with hot spring water) is served upon reservation and truly special dish available only here. Its unique Kuroyu, coffee colored hot spring is good for health.

Many people visit this inn to experience its amazing kappo ryori (traditional Japanese fine dining). They use the finest quality ingredients in generous quantities, and dishes are exquisitely flavored. The fact that even their breakfasts are of great quality shows the inn's pride in their food.

A former restaurant for fishermen founded in 1899. A small inn with 18 guest rooms offers country style cuisine cooked with fresh seafood as its specialty.

An inn with a hideout like atmosphere which silently stands among the mountains of rich greenery. Through the courtyard in which grows bamboo and sasanqua(camellia) are the sole 3 guest buildings. At dinner, you can enjoy charcoal-grilled dishes with Japanese beef and seafood.

There are two different types of rental open-air baths, and the gender-segregated bathrooms can also be used by day trip guests. The healthy kaiseki (traditional Japanese course meals) are popular among female guests. The healing spa is a lovely reward for yourself.

Its typical Kamakura wooden two-story building of the Taisho Period is designated as an important building of the Kamakura City landscape. The hotel receives guests with warm hospitality. It's also nice no curfew in the night.

It stands by a quiet seashore, adjacent to Hayama imperial villa. You can see the great sunset over Mount Fuji, and have a beautiful view. It is convenient as a starting point for a trip towards the history, literature and flowers of Miura peninsula or Kamakura.

Mizuno is a quiet and atmospheric kominka hot spring inn that is just a 7 minute dive by car away from Ajiro Station on the JR Ito Station. It is a place where the warmth of the sea and mountains surrounding the hot springs harmonize just perfectly with the inherent warmth of the old, natural materials that the inn was built with. Incredibly rich in nature, the inn was once a private farmhouse that was renovated to serve guests as a traditional Japanese inn. With their thick, wooden pillars, the rooms emulate the cozy feeling of an old forest, an experience that is brought to perfecting by soaking your body in the natural open-air bath of Mizuno. Bring time to a stand-still and seek refuge of the busy day to day life of the city here.

A ryokan with only 3 rooms managed by a couple. Mizuki, Natsumi and Kaori guest rooms have a terrace with a beautiful view. Spacious rooms furnished with wood, washi paper (Japanese traditional paper) and tatami mats have modern Japanese taste. Its hot spring water is directly supplied from a source in the premises to baths.

A calm inn dedicated for grownups surrounded by nature. 4 guest rooms with an open-air bath have different styles. Its original Kaiseki cuisine (traditional Japanese course meal) cooked carefully with selected ingredients from all over Japan including fresh fish caught in Sagami Bay and abalone is also interesting.

A small inn where you can enjoy the beautiful sea and tasty fish. The beautiful nature and culture that has become rare recently can found here with their warm atmosphere and hot meals.

It is a unique inn which has an impressive matsuri-kan (festival hall) replicating food stalls from the Chichibu Yomatsuri (the Chichibu Night festival). Guests can enjoy not only an open-air cypress bath and a large bath, but also book a private open-air bath for a fee. Meals served as guests gather and sit around the irori (Japanese traditional fireplace) include natural delicacies special to the mountain village.

They have two large bathhouses, one a sulfur spring without hydrogen sulfide, the other a Helston mineral bath. At 20:00 they switch the bathhouses for men and for women, so you can enjoy both on the same day. The large open-air baths are open alternately for men and for women. They also have an open-air bath which can be reserved for private bathing.

A hotel overlooking Inubosaki (Cape Inubo), which has been visited by many writers and artists. The hotel prides itself most on its open-air natural hot spring, Shorai-no-Yu. There is also a package that includes a bathing experience and a gorgeous meal with no stay.

A hot spring inn located at the entrance of the Okuchichibu onsen (hot spring), it has a main building with 6 guest rooms as well as an annex building. It boasts refined hot springs such as an open-air bath surrounded by a bamboo forest, and iwaburo (a bath made using rocks). Their local vegetable-centric original dishes are popular for going well with local sake (Japanese rice wine).

A popular place with 8 rooms made by carpenters specialising in temples and shrines, it was selected for the ”100 Japanese hotels and inns selected by professionals” and also won the prefectural governor's award at Chiba chef's tournament. At an additional charge, you can enjoy the gorgeous local fish platter.

A Japanese style ryokan surrounded by pine groves. It offers a variety of hot spring baths with the comfort of the sea breeze such as a rooftop foot bath overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Enjoy flower picking in the field nearby in spring. It's a perfect place to stay for sightseeing.