Oku Yugawara Tsubaki

Both dinner and breakfast are the best authentic Kaiseki cuisine in the room. The rice is delicious. There are drinks (beer, water) in the refrigerator in the spacious room, and cold sake, ice cream, and drinks are available in the lounge near the large communal bath and the open-air bath. Our room was in the main building, facing a quiet garden of camellias and a pond with carp. The carp that came to the window to eat food were cute. The fresh flowers, hanging scrolls, and folding screens displayed in the corridors and tokonoma are also stately. The accessories such as camellia-themed tableware, small bowls, coffee cups, tea bowls, and embroidered towels are also tasteful. However, there is no shuttle service from the station for travelers coming by train. There is a guide for the city bus, but it is quite a steep hill to climb from the Oku-Yugawara bus stop to the entrance of the inn, so I think that guests with a lot of luggage should be advised to take a taxi from the station instead of the city bus. A taxi from JR Yugawara Station costs 2,000 yen.

Perfect hotel. The environment is elegant, the room is large and comfortable, the dressing room, bathroom and open-air hot spring are in the same area, which is very user-friendly. The toiletries, makeup removal and care products are complete, and there are also facial masks, which are well thought out. The Kaiseki dinner is perfect. Each dish is carefully made with seasonal ingredients, and the taste is rich and delicious. The breakfast is also very good. I like the chef. The service of the hotel staff is warm and thoughtful. Special thanks to KAWASE, who is as kind as family, and let us spend a very wonderful two days.

The hotel is located in a mountainous area with a beautiful environment. The interior of the hotel is beautifully designed. The staff are very attentive and enthusiastic. The room we stayed in this time has hot spring facilities. It was semi-open air and the atmosphere was very good on a rainy day. Will definitely stay again next time.

As it claims to be a Japanese restaurant where you can stay, everything is as you would expect, from the parking lot to the entry, garden, furnishings, bath, and dinner. The open-air bath, which you can enjoy while looking out at the garden from your room, allows you to feel the seasons, and it was nice to be able to stretch my legs out in the private stone bath (I'm about 170cm tall). I was able to relax on a deck chair on the veranda and enjoy a beer after my bath. There was also a cypress bath inside the room, and although it was through a window I could look out at the pond and enjoy the scent of cypress. From the large public bath outside the room I was able to enjoy the song of the nightingales while looking out at the distant mountain ranges. It was also great that I could enter at any time during my stay. Dinner was a Japanese-style banquet, but the combination of ingredients was very new, and I could feel the concept shared by Japanese tradition and ★★★ restaurants in the Basque country. While making the most of the flavors of the ingredients, I enjoyed the ingenuity of the combinations, and enjoyed the different intervals that rose in my mouth one after another. The intervals between serving the dishes were also perfect, with no gaps, and the next dish never came before I had finished my meal. The "tea" served was also excellent. Matcha when filling out the guest register after arrival, sencha when being given a tour of the hotel after arriving, and roasted green tea after dinner - the temperature and strength of the water was all controlled for each type, and the waitresses' skill was excellent. Up to this point, I think you could get an experience on par or better at a star-rated restaurant or hotel, but the breakfast was excellent. It was served on a tray in about nine small bowls, made with carefully selected ingredients that were flawless in every respect. The rice was also excellent, cooked in a rice cooker. A hotel employee had previously told me that "the quality of the breakfast served determines the class of a hotel," and I thought that this was certainly true. Being able to experience all of this in my room made for a happy holiday.