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Gora, Hakone
Gora Kadan 強羅花壇
A 1930 imperial summer villa above Gora, now one of Hakone's best-known ryokan. Kaiseki is brought to your room, and 12 of the 23 room types have their own open-air bath.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, from its own springs
- Bath in your room
- 12 of 23 room typesOpen-air; the rest indoor
- Tattoos
- With limitsSmall ones OK; any size in private bath
Gora, Hakone
Tensui Saryo 天翠茶寮
A few minutes' walk from Gora Station, with a free-flowing open-air bath of cloudy Owakudani spring water and a private bath facing Mt Myojogatake.
- Onsen
- In some bathsNot the indoor public bath
- Bath in your room
- 7 of 10 room typesOpen-air or view bath
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Gora, Hakone
Gora Hanaougi 強羅花扇
Every room at this Gora ryokan has its own open-air bath of free-flowing hot-spring water. Dinner is Kyoto-style kaiseki, a multi-course meal, served like breakfast in a private dining room.
- Onsen
- YesFrom the ryokan's own source
- Bath in your room
- Open-air bath in every roomFree-flowing hot-spring water
- Tattoos
- AllowedAllowed in the large baths
Gora, Hakone
Gora Kansuiro 強羅環翠楼
The former Hakone villa of the Iwasaki family, founders of Mitsubishi, has been a ryokan since 1949. It has 14 Japanese rooms on a large garden and free-flowing water from two springs of its own.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, from two own springs
- Bath in your room
- 9 of 14 roomsIndoor hot-spring baths
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kowakudani, Hakone
Hakone Kowakien Mikawaya Ryokan 箱根小涌園 三河屋旅館
A ryokan since 1883, with a wooden main building that is a registered tangible cultural property and a room where Sun Yat-sen stayed. Guests choose between the main building, a newer annex and four detached cottages.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, from its own source
- Bath in your room
- Open-air-bath rooms, suite, cottagesThe twin rooms have no bath
- Tattoos
- With limitsUse your room bath or the private bath
Kowakudani, Hakone
Hakone Kowakien Tenyu 箱根小涌園 天悠
A Hakone ryokan run by Fujita Kanko where every room has its own open-air hot-spring bath in a stoneware tub. Dinner is a Japanese-Western set meal and breakfast is a buffet.
- Onsen
- YesTwo large baths and every room
- Bath in your room
- Open-air bath in every roomShigaraki stoneware tubs
- Tattoos
- Not allowedNot allowed in the large baths
Kowakudani, Hakone
Mizunoto 箱根小涌谷温泉 水の音
An 87-room Kyoritsu Resort ryokan in Hakone, fully renewed on 1 April 2025. Two hot springs feed 13 baths, including three private open-air baths that are free and need no booking.
- Onsen
- YesTwo hot springs across 13 baths
- Bath in your room
- Open-air baths in the Suika wingRoom baths aren't hot-spring water
- Tattoos
- With limitsPrivate baths only, not large baths
Tokyo
Andon Ryokan 行燈旅館
A modern design ryokan north of Asakusa, 5 minutes' walk from Minowa Station. The tatami rooms are small and share showers and toilets, and the one bath is a jacuzzi you use privately.
- Onsen
- NoThe only bath is a private jacuzzi
- Bath in your room
- No room has oneShared showers and toilets
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tokyo
Ryokan Asakusa Shigetsu 旅館浅草指月
A family-run ryokan in the middle of Asakusa, a minute from Nakamise street and 5 minutes' walk from Senso-ji. Every room has its own toilet and a tub or shower booth, the two shared baths on the 6th floor look out over the neighbourhood, and no meals are served at present.
- Onsen
- NoTwo ordinary 6th-floor view baths
- Bath in your room
- A tub or a shower booth in every roomOwn toilet and basin in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tokyo
Cyashitsu Ryokan Asakusa 茶室ryokan浅草
A modern ryokan north of Senso-ji, styled on the Japanese tea room: small, quiet tatami rooms with futons and no TV. The rooftop open-air bath faces Skytree and is reserved for private use.
- Onsen
- Not stated
- Bath in your room
- Shower and toilet in the suitesShared toilets in the small rooms
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tokyo
Ryokan Kamogawa Asakusa 旅館加茂川
A small all-tatami ryokan in Asakusa with 10 rooms, 3 minutes' walk from Senso-ji. Guests book a free 30-minute slot in the private bath at check-in, families can borrow baby goods, and the ryokan serves no meals at present.
- Onsen
- NoNo shared bath; a free private bath
- Bath in your room
- A bath or shower in every roomCheaper rooms may be shower-only
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Shuzenji, Izu
Arai Ryokan 新井旅館
Founded in 1872 on the Katsura river in Shuzenji Onsen. Every bath is free-flowing hot-spring water, and the ryokan describes itself as a registered cultural-property ryokan.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing in every bath
- Bath in your room
- Some roomsHot-spring bath in some wings
- Tattoos
- Not allowedNot allowed in the large baths
Kawaguchiko
Fuji Onsenji Yumedono 河口湖温泉寺 夢殿
Thirteen rooms by Lake Kawaguchi, at the foot of Mount Fuji, each with its own open-air hot-spring bath. Dinner and breakfast are served in private dining rooms.
- Onsen
- YesIn every room's open-air bath
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOpen-air hot-spring bath
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tonosawa, Hakone
Fukuzumiro 福住楼
A three-storey wooden ryokan on the Hayakawa gorge in Tonosawa, founded in 1890 and a registered tangible cultural property. Kaiseki is served in your room, and all but one of the 17 rooms share baths and toilets.
- Onsen
- YesFlowing 24 hours; baths swap at 19:00
- Bath in your room
- Only the Sakura 2 deluxe roomOther rooms share baths and toilets
- Tattoos
- AllowedNo restrictions
Gion, Kyoto
Gion Ryokan Karaku 京都祇園 料理旅館 花楽
A 19-room cuisine ryokan in Gion, where dinner is a Kyoto kaiseki built around a hot pot and served in the ground-floor dining hall. Every room has its own bath and toilet; there is no hot spring and no large bath.
- Onsen
- NoNo large bath; baths are in rooms
- Bath in your room
- Every roomBath and toilet in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Hakone-Yumoto, Hakone
Hakone Airu 箱根藍瑠
A 15-room ryokan with Balinese decor on the hillside above Hakone-Yumoto. Every room is an 11-mat tatami room with a terrace and its own open-air bath of free-flowing hot-spring water.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing; large baths 24 hours
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOpen-air, free-flowing, every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Lake Ashi, Hakone
Hakone Ashinoko Hanaori 箱根・芦ノ湖 はなをり
A 154-room resort in ryokan style on the shore of Lake Ashi, opened in 2017: shoes off, samue robes, large hot-spring baths. Dinner and breakfast are buffets rather than kaiseki.
- Onsen
- YesHeated, water added; not free-flowing
- Bath in your room
- Open-air bath in 3 room typesNot hot-spring water
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Hakone-Yumoto, Hakone
Hakone Suimeisou 箱根水明荘
A 28-room ryokan on the Hayakawa river in Hakone-Yumoto. Thirteen river-side rooms have their own open-air bath of hot-spring water, and kaiseki is served in your room or in a private dining room, depending on the room.
- Onsen
- YesPart free-flowing, part recirculated
- Bath in your room
- 13 river-side roomsOpen-air hot-spring bath
- Tattoos
- AllowedAllowed in the hot springs
Nakagyo, Kyoto
Hiiragiya 柊家
A family-run Kyoto ryokan founded in 1818, in a wooden sukiya building with a new wing beside it. Kyoto kaiseki is served in your room, and the baths use soft groundwater, not hot-spring water.
- Onsen
- NoSoft groundwater, not hot spring
- Bath in your room
- Every roomWooden tub and toilet in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kawaguchiko
Hoshinoya Fuji 星のや富士
Forty cabins above Lake Kawaguchi, each with a terrace that works as its living room. It is a glamping resort, and dinner is either a course in the dining room or sukiyaki or shabu-shabu cooked on your own terrace.
- Onsen
- Not stated
- Bath in your room
- Not stated
- Tattoos
- AllowedStaff may still refuse bath entry
Karuizawa
Hoshinoya Karuizawa 星のや軽井沢
Seventy-seven villas in the Hoshino area of Naka-Karuizawa, about 80 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen and then a short taxi ride. Hot-spring water flows freely at the Hoshino Onsen Tombo-no-yu bathhouse and in a Meditation Bath kept for staying guests; the tubs in the villas use tap water.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, in the bathhouse
- Bath in your room
- Every roomA bathtub in every villa
- Tattoos
- AllowedNot restricted
Okinawa
Hoshinoya Okinawa 星のや沖縄
An oceanfront resort on the coast at Yomitan, with 100 suites on low floors that all face the sea. It has beds and a pool where a ryokan has tatami and futons, and meals are booked separately from the room.
- Onsen
- Not stated
- Bath in your room
- Every roomA bathtub in every suite
- Tattoos
- AllowedNot restricted
Tokyo
Hoshinoya Tokyo 星のや東京
An 84-room tower in Otemachi, beside the old Edo Castle main gate, that calls itself a "tower ryokan": tatami floors, no shoes anywhere in the building and a lounge on every floor. The hot-spring bath is on the top floor, and dinner and breakfast are booked separately from the room.
- Onsen
- In some bathsTop-floor shared bath, guests only
- Bath in your room
- Every roomTub and shower booth; tap water
- Tattoos
- AllowedStaff may still refuse bath entry
Miyajima
Iwaso みやじまの宿 岩惣
A ryokan in Momijidani, the maple valley behind Itsukushima Shrine, that began as a tea house in 1854. Its two large baths use hot-spring water; new-wing rooms and two of the cottages have a bathroom, and main-building rooms do not.
- Onsen
- YesIn the two large baths
- Bath in your room
- New wing and two cottagesBathroom; not hot-spring water
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kyoto Station, Kyoto
Ryokan Izuyasu 料理旅宿 井筒安
A kaiseki restaurant with eight rooms, in a late-Edo Kyoto townhouse where the seventh-generation owner cooks. It has no hot spring; guests bathe in three private family baths.
- Onsen
- NoNo hot spring, no shared bath
- Bath in your room
- No room has oneUse the three family baths
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Osaka
Kaneyoshi Ryokan かねよし旅館
A 15-room family ryokan on the bank of the Dotonbori river in Osaka's Minami district. The tatami rooms have their own bath and toilet and face either the river or the street; two small Western room types share the baths on the 6th floor. No meals are served.
- Onsen
- NoThe ryokan has no hot spring
- Bath in your room
- Bath and toilet in some roomsOthers use the shared bath
- Tattoos
- AllowedAllowed in the shared bath
Tonosawa, Hakone
Kinnotake Tonosawa 金乃竹 塔ノ澤
A ryokan for adults and older children in Tonosawa, reached across a suspension bridge. Every room has an open-air bath fed by the ryokan's own hot spring, and there is no shared bath to plan around.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, from its own source
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOpen-air; granite, hiba or cypress
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kawaguchiko
Kozantei Ubuya うぶや
Every room faces Mount Fuji across Lake Kawaguchi. Most room types have an open-air bath on the balcony; the hot-spring water is in the shared bath, Fuji no Yu.
- Onsen
- In some bathsIn the Fuji-no-yu bath only
- Bath in your room
- Most room typesOpen-air; not hot-spring water
- Tattoos
- With limitsOnly if cover stickers hide them
Shimogyo, Kyoto
Kyomachiya Ryokan Sakura Urushitei 京町家旅館さくら 漆亭
A 69-room ryokan in the style of a Kyoto townhouse, with tatami rooms, Western twins and doubles, and suites that combine both. It has no hot spring; there is one private bath, and breakfast comes in Japanese, Western, vegan and gluten-free versions.
- Onsen
- NoOne bookable private bath instead
- Bath in your room
- Bath in the Urushi suite and maisonetteStandard rooms: shower and toilet
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kyoto Station, Kyoto
Kyoto Takasegawa Bettei 町家ホテル 京都高瀬川別邸
A 46-room ryokan in the style of a Kyoto townhouse, with beds on tatami and a hinoki (Japanese cypress) bath in every room. It has no hot spring and serves no dinner; breakfast is brought to your room.
- Onsen
- NoEach room has its own bath
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOrdinary water, not a hot spring
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Sengokuhara, Hakone
Mount View Hakone 川涌の湯 マウントビュー箱根
A 37-room ryokan in Sengokuhara whose open-air baths hold milky sulphur water piped from Owakudani. The Japanese rooms have a toilet and basin but no bath, so guests bathe in the shared and private baths.
- Onsen
- In some bathsOpen-air baths; indoor baths are not
- Bath in your room
- Some roomsNone in 'shared bathroom' rooms
- Tattoos
- AllowedNo special rules on tattoos
Nakagyo, Kyoto
Nishiyama Ryokan 西山旅館
A family ryokan in central Kyoto, founded in 1953 and now run by the founder's grandson. It serves a Japanese breakfast and no dinner, and guests can join a daily tea ceremony, koto music and a morning walk at no charge.
- Onsen
- NoShared baths, not hot-spring water
- Bath in your room
- Every roomBath and toilet in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tokyo
Prostyle Ryokan Tokyo Asakusa PROSTYLE旅館 東京浅草
A 43-room hotel in ryokan style across from the Sumida river in Asakusa, with tatami floors, beds and a bath in every room. Most room types have an open-air or semi-open-air bath filled with ordinary water, and the top-floor suites face Tokyo Skytree.
- Onsen
- NoRoom baths use ordinary water
- Bath in your room
- A bath in every roomMost open-air or semi-open-air
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kurashiki
Ryokan Kurashiki 旅館くらしき
An eight-room ryokan in converted merchant houses and stores on the canal in Kurashiki's Bikan quarter, some of them from the late Edo period. Every room has a wooden bath, dinner is kaiseki in the restaurant, and there is no hot spring.
- Onsen
- NoNone at the ryokan
- Bath in your room
- Every roomKoyamaki or cypress, by room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Higashiyama, Kyoto
Seikoro Ryokan 晴鴨楼
A family ryokan founded in 1831 at the east end of Gojo bridge, by the Kamo river. Kaiseki is served in your room and every room has a bath of koyamaki, Japanese umbrella pine. There is no natural hot spring.
- Onsen
- NoShared baths use artificial onsen
- Bath in your room
- Every roomKoyamaki-wood bath and toilet
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Atami
SOKI ATAMI SOKI ATAMI
A modern hot-spring ryokan on the hillside above Atami Bay. Every room has its own hot-spring bath, some of them open-air on a terrace, and dinner is grilled over charcoal at an open kitchen.
- Onsen
- YesIn every room and the large bath
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOpen-air on the terrace in some
- Tattoos
- With limitsCover stickers, ¥200 each
Minakami
Takaragawa Onsen Osenkaku 宝川温泉 汪泉閣
A ryokan at the end of the valley road in Minakami, with four large open-air baths along the Takaragawa river. Three are mixed and one is for women, and everyone wears the ryokan's bath wrap in them.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, open 24 hours
- Bath in your room
- Some roomsSome East Wing rooms; none open-air
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Nanzenji, Kyoto
Kyoto Garden Ryokan Yachiyo 南禅寺 八千代
A 16-room ryokan on the approach to Nanzen-ji, built around a pond garden by the landscape gardener Jihei Ogawa, known as Ueji. Each of the seven main-building rooms has its own cypress bath, most of them semi-open-air onto the garden; the baths are not hot-spring water.
- Onsen
- NoTwo traditional shared baths
- Bath in your room
- Garden bath in 7 main-building roomsThe 9 annex rooms have a unit bath only
- Tattoos
- AllowedShower well first
Hakone-Yumoto, Hakone
Yoshiike Ryokan 吉池旅館
A 64-room ryokan around a large Japanese garden in Hakone-Yumoto. Its baths are fed by free-flowing hot-spring water from six of the ryokan's own wells, and some rooms have an open-air or semi-open-air bath.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing, from six own wells
- Bath in your room
- Some roomsMost rooms have a shower only
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Tokyo
Onsen Ryokan Yuen Shinjuku 温泉旅館 由縁 新宿
An 18-floor ryokan near Shinjuku Gyoen with men's and women's baths on the top floor. The open-air baths are filled with hot-spring water brought from Lake Ashi in Hakone; the rooms have tatami floors, beds and a shower, with no bath.
- Onsen
- Open-air baths, trucked from HakoneIndoor baths are ordinary water
- Bath in your room
- No room has oneShower only in the room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Gero Onsen
Yunoshimakan 下呂温泉 湯之島館
A three-storey wooden ryokan from 1931 on a wooded hillside above Gero, registered as a tangible cultural property. The special rooms and some annex rooms have their own open-air bath, and the ryokan says Gero's hot-spring water reaches every bath.
- Onsen
- YesIn every bath, rooms included
- Bath in your room
- Special and some annex roomsOpen-air; others bath or shower
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Gion, Kyoto
Yuzuya Ryokan 柚子屋旅館 祇園店
An eight-room ryokan in Gion run by a restaurant, where dinner is a Kyoto kaiseki with a yuzu hot pot. The cypress baths have yuzu floating in them and are not hot-spring water, and the ryokan takes no children under 13.
- Onsen
- NoA cypress yuzu bath, not hot spring
- Bath in your room
- Every roomBath and toilet in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Kurama, Kyoto
Kurama Onsen くらま温泉
A small hot-spring ryokan and day spa at the foot of Mt Kurama. It closed in 2021 and reopened under a new owner on 1 November 2024, with five guest rooms and stays that come with dinner and breakfast.
- Onsen
- YesNatural sulphur spring, iron-rich
- Bath in your room
- Not stated
- Tattoos
- AllowedGang members excepted
Not currently accepting bookings
Shuzenji, Izu
Asaba あさば
The Asaba family has run this Shuzenji ryokan for more than 500 years, and a Noh stage stands in its pond. Every room has its own free-flowing hot-spring bath, and dinner and breakfast are served in the room.
- Onsen
- YesFree-flowing Shuzenji spring
- Bath in your room
- A hot-spring bath in every roomOpen-air only in the detached villa
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Not currently accepting bookings
Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga Onsen
Beniya Mukayu べにや無何有
Sixteen rooms around a mountain garden on Yakushiyama hill in Yamashiro Onsen. At least 14 have their own open-air bath, dinner is Kaga kaiseki in the dining room, and guests must be of primary-school age or older.
- Onsen
- YesIndoor and open-air shared baths
- Bath in your room
- At least 14 of 16 roomsOpen-air bath
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Not currently accepting bookings
Mount Fuji
Gora Kadan Fuji 強羅花壇 富士
Gora Kadan Fuji is the sister ryokan of Gora Kadan in Hakone, about 50 minutes away by car at Subashiri on the east foot of Mt Fuji. It has 42 suites, each with its own bath, and faces the mountain due west.
- Onsen
- In some bathsIn the large and open-air baths
- Bath in your room
- A bath in every suiteOpen-air in most types
- Tattoos
- With limitsSmall ones, up to about 10 cm
Not currently accepting bookings
Miyanoshita, Hakone
Hakone Ginyu 箱根吟遊
Twenty rooms above the Hayakawa valley in Miyanoshita, each with an open-air hot-spring bath on its own terrace. Kaiseki dinner and breakfast are both served in the room's own dining room.
- Onsen
- YesWeakly alkaline sodium chloride spring
- Bath in your room
- Every roomOpen-air, on every room's terrace
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Not currently accepting bookings
Arashiyama, Kyoto
Hoshinoya Kyoto 星のや京都
Twenty-five rooms on the Oi river in Oku-Arashiyama, the district where Heian-era nobles built their villas. Hoshino Resorts calls it "a private residence by the water"; dinner and breakfast are booked separately from the room.
- Onsen
- Not stated
- Bath in your room
- Every roomA bathroom in every room
- Tattoos
- AllowedStaff may still refuse bath entry
Not currently accepting bookings
Tokyo
Ryokan Sawanoya 旅館 澤の屋
The Sawa family's ryokan in Yanaka, founded in June 1949, has 12 tatami rooms and has hosted over 190,000 guests from 92 countries. Two of the rooms have their own bath and toilet; the rest share two lockable baths, one of cypress and one ceramic, that face the garden.
- Onsen
- NoThe ryokan has no hot spring
- Bath in your room
- Bath and toilet in 2 of 12 roomsThe other ten share two baths
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Not currently accepting bookings
Nakagyo, Kyoto
Tawaraya 俵屋旅館
The Kyoto ryokan at Fuyacho-Aneyakoji, founded in the Hōei era (1704–1711), which calls itself Kyoto's oldest standing ryokan. Dinner and breakfast are served in your room, and every room has its own bath with a tub.
- Onsen
- NoNo hot-spring bath
- Bath in your room
- Every roomA bath with a tub in every room
- Tattoos
- Not stated
Not currently accepting bookings
Tokyo
Onsen Ryokan Yuen Bettei Daita 由縁別邸 代田
A low garden ryokan in Daita, Setagaya, built on the idea of a mountain retreat in the middle of the city. Its shared open-air baths are filled with hot-spring water trucked in from Lake Ashi, there is a sauna in each bath, and dinner is kaiseki or a seasonal hot pot at the restaurant Tsukikage.
- Onsen
- Open-air baths, trucked from HakoneIndoor and room baths: ordinary water
- Bath in your room
- Open-air bath in one room typeNot hot-spring; others have a shower
- Tattoos
- Allowed if coveredStickers sold at the front desk
Not currently accepting bookings
