Find Your Perfect Ryokan

The oldest inn at Higashiyama Onsen, an Edo-era Aizu clan retreat whose early Showa wooden buildings are a registered cultural property.

The Akiu Onsen inn run by one family for a claimed thousand years, 173 rooms in a 26,000 square metre garden, 30 minutes from Sendai.

A refined traditional inn at the base of Amanohashidate, Japan's 'Bridge to Heaven'.

Hillside Arima Onsen ryokan offering rare dual gold and silver springs with private open-air baths.

Five self-flowing springs feed 17 tubs at Asahidake Onsen, with no water added and no heating, at the foot of the ropeway.

A sukiya-style inn named after an 1896 villa, with a large garden, 31 rooms and two hot spring large baths.

A Sekitei-group inn of 24 mostly detached sukiya rooms in a stone garden, with three own hot spring sources.

An Atami Station inn since 1946 with two own sources, free-flowing large and private open-air baths.

A five-room Miyajima inn in front of the Miyajima Aquarium, 5 minutes on foot from the Itsukushima Shrine exit, with two Goemon-style baths taken in turn and Seto Inland Sea cooking in its ground-floor restaurant.

Beniya opened in Awara Onsen in 1884, burned down in 2018 and reopened in 2021 in a building by architect Tetsuo Kobori whose floors are heated by water from its own hot spring wells. All 17 rooms have a semi-open-air hot spring bath, and check-in, dinner and breakfast all take place in the room. The Michelin Guide gives it one Key, and Echizen crab kaiseki is available between November and March.

An Ogoto Onsen inn above Lake Biwa, 20 minutes from Kyoto Station, where every room looks over the lake; private bath ¥3,300 for 50 minutes.

Dogo Onsen's most storied inn, with about 390 years of history and imperial guests, a few minutes on foot from the Honkan bathhouse.