20 Ryokan in Japan

A Yoro hot spring that is weakly alkaline. Delicious meals include Otaki's famous bamboo shoots in spring, sweet fish in summer and the inn's recommended Yoro beef in autumn and winter. The open-air baths have a view of beautiful scenery.

Located by the Yoro River. In the baths with black hot spring water particular to the Yoro Valley, you can enjoy the view of the beautiful valley through the double glazed windows. Boar meat hot pot and edible wild plants are an attraction from winter to spring.

A long-established inn founded in 1625. The elegant and majestic old building is a Giyofu architecture (mimicked Western-style architecture) of the Meiji Period combining stone and wood buildings. In 2002, it was designated as an important cultural property.

Near a swimming beach, all the guest rooms are facing the sea and have wonderful views of the sunset. Half of the guest rooms are large Japanese or western style rooms for big families. The hotel is popular for the large bath with a view and the fresh seafood.

Located on high ground along a prefectural road, it has a fine view and is also easy to access. Their food includes lots of rare ingredients such as iwatake (a lichen called rock tripe) and white birch sap. In autumn, they serve course dishes of hoteishimeji mushrooms, daikoku mushrooms and matsutake mushrooms.

It is a cuisine hotel, proud to provide fresh harvest from the sea and mountains. You can enjoy kaiseki ryori (formally arranged dinner to enjoy sake) of dishes with seasonal feelings with a view of the Japanese garden. The size of guest rooms varies from 8 to 20 tatami mats (about 14 to 35 square meters) and there are twelve guest rooms in total.

An inn where you can enjoy its cuisine cooked with seasonal wild vegetables. Taste delicious char-grilled dishes at the hearth, river fish, trout and Yamame trout, Buddhist cuisine and wild boar or mushroom hot pot. You can come just for meals.

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.

They take care to create a relaxing atmosphere by doing things like burning incense, playing classical music and serving wine during guests' aromatic treatment. A stylish inn with a unique modern Japanese atmosphere.

This hotel is known for its Yashi-no-Kokage-no-Roten-Buro (an open-air bath under the shade of a pine tree) with a tropical feel. There is a large bath with a view overlooking the Kujukuri Beach. Their menu is largely composed of fresh seafood dishes.

A calm inn where you can enjoy the famous Yugawara Onsen soft hot spring water at a reasonable price. Its pride in Yugawara Onsen's clear and soft hot spring water good for skin and original Japanese course meal making the most of ingredients gathered from the mountains and the sea.

Enjoy its seafood cuisine including grilled fresh abalone, snow crab legs and butter sautéed scallop. Have a relaxing bath in natural hot spring considered to make your skin soft and smooth.

A Japanese style inn appreciated for its subtle considerations. The mountains of Hakone and the garden can be seen from the guest rooms. The open-air bath and salon have an outstanding view as well. It is a hidden inn which prides itself on its simple kaiseki (traditional Japanese course) meal made from the best local ingredients.

Have a relaxing bath time in an open-air bath with a view of forest or stretch your limbs in an indoor large bath. You can feel the warmth of wood under the interior soft light in the premises. Enjoy your stay in a secluded small Ryokan.

A fully equipped onsen ryokan just two minutes on foot from the station, with a natural hot spring, radon hot spring, a sauna, a waterfall hot spring and a cypress open air bath with a view. Offers shuttle services to the beach in the summer. The onsen baths are open for day visitors as well.

A long-established genuine Japanese style hotel since 1883. The beautiful garden with seasonal flowers, such as azaleas and cherry blossoms, and autumn leaves can be seen through the windows of the guest rooms. You can have an even more luxurious time in a guest room with an open-air bath.

A hotel which uses fresh fish purchased directly from local fishermen. It is dedicated to locally-sourced ingredients and does not serve any deep-sea fish such as tuna or meats. A superb hotel known among fish lovers as a hotel they'd like to keep a secret.

The dishes full of seasonal ingredients have the gentle flavors of the mountain. The rock bath which has rejuvenated many tired travelers has a familiar, relaxing feel. It is as if taking a glimpse into the inn's past.

Because it faces the Arakawa River, you can view the natural treasure, Nagatoro Iwadatami (the rocks with successive layers of tatami overlapping each other) from both the rooms and the open-air baths. The hotel is also known for the decorated flowers in the main building and kaiseki ryori (a traditional Japanese course meal) which makes use of seasonal ingredients.

Despite its location at Yumoto Onsen, the entrance of Hakone, this hotel surrounded by trees is calm and quiet. The meals are kaiseki (Japanese course meal) cooked with seasonal ingredients from all over Japan. The view from the open-walled bath is like a painting.