Kinugawa Park Hotels

It's not really a ryokan, but a new building that has traditional Japanese rooms in it, which is fine, i guess, as Nikko and Kinugawa-onsen don't have many (if any) real-real ryokans. Staff is nice, some of them even speak decent english, traditional kaiseki is good (but we, judging from the pictures they've posted, expected a private dinner\breakfast and got a common room), room was spacious and felt like unique experience, although on my subsequent trip i wouldn't book a modern building like that one. Onsens are really good, but show some signs of wear. You can get a private one which we didn't do but option is there. Placement is fine, but the train to Nikko takes about 30-40 minutes because it goes so slow.

The exterior of the hotel is pretty, but the interior of the hotel is dated and needs a bit of updating. There were parts of the hotel that were completely shut down (maybe there are saving up enough money to one day renovate). However the facilities and rooms are well maintained and the onsens are beautiful and peaceful. There are 2 main onsens, that are separated by men and women. Each day the onsens are switched, in the morning you will go to one, and in the evening before dinner you can experience the other onsen. Onsite there is a really nice restaurant and gift shop that featured local products at reasonable prices. There is a 24 hour coffee/tea station that is free to use. It's a short 10 minute walk from Kinugawa Onsen Station. When you arrive they provide you a yukata to wear while you are staying at the hotel. The rooms are spacious with options for a western bed or japanese style (sleeping on the floor). We opted for the western bed to be higher off the ground as we thought it would be colder to sleep on the ground. Although the rooms are very well heated and was a bit too warm, that we needed to open the window to cool the room down. The rooms have nice views of the countryside. They provide a pitcher of ice water in the room and you can go to the front desk to refill with ice if more is needed. The bathroom is quite large and has both a shower and toilet in a separate room of the bathroom; although we mostly bathed in the onsen. There is a 7-eleven nearby that was open 24 hours, but otherwise there isn't much else around the hotel. Also the town of Kinugawa Onsen closes quite early, around 8pm it's quite deserted. We were there at the end of November 2024, and it seemed that the hotel was mostly unoccupied, so we felt like we had the place to ourselves. It was a very nice one night stay.

Отель для японских пенсионеров. Купальник очень хорошие. Кайсеки завтрак очень разнообразный. Персонал очень очень приятный.