Find Your Perfect Ryokan

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

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

Budget-friendly family-run guesthouse in Hakone with real volcanic onsen water from Owakudani.

A small Lake Kawaguchi inn with Fuji-view tatami rooms, a hot spring bath facing the mountain and sukiyaki dinners.

Each of Fukiya's 20 rooms has its own indoor bath, most of them hinoki cypress, and the baths in five of its seven room types run on hot spring water. Outside the rooms are seven more baths, including two rooftop hinoki tubs used privately whenever free. Founded in 1935, the inn was rebranded in 2017 by Kengo Kuma's studio around the butterbur (fuki) leaf behind its name. Dinner and breakfast both come to your room.

A 20-room ryokan at the top of the Gora cable car, where every room has its own open-air onsen bath fed straight from the source.

One hundred ground-floor, sea-facing rooms behind gusuku-style walls on the Yomitan coast, with a hot spring bath and villas that have their own pools.

Forty-eight villas built to Taketomi Island's own rules, with coral-sand yards and low stone walls, a short ferry from Ishigaki.

A 17-story ryokan tower in Tokyo's business district, offering traditional onsen and kaiseki in the heart of the metropolis.

A family ryokan on the Dotonbori canal, open since 1919, with 15 tatami rooms, a large bath and the lights of Minami outside the window.

Nishimuraya Honkan is a prestigious 160+ year-old ryokan in the heart of Kinosaki Onsen, one of Japan's most atmospheric hot spring towns.

A 350-year-old Kinosaki inn on the canal street with 15 tatami rooms in a wooden building of the post-1925 style.