20 Ryokan in Japan

While you enjoy the scenery full of trees, handmade leaf bud soba and other dishes with river fish and edible wild plants will find you smacking your lips. Taking a slow fragrant Japanese cypress bath and listening to the stream will make your fatigue melt away.

Omi beef, natural mallard duck dishes. A Japanese-style ryokan on the shore of Lake Biwa. Traditional course meals using seasonal and local ingredients.

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.

You can request local sake or ingredients. Spiny lobster, abalone, flounder and sea bream served alive. Has bidet toilets and an elevator.