Albergo Yuraku

About Albergo Yuraku

Yuraku calls itself an auberge, an inn where dinner is the point. Chef Matsumura cooks Italian with fish just landed in Sagami Bay and organic vegetables from a partner farm in Izusan, and the menu changes every month. You can come to dinner in your yukata.

The water comes from Yuraku's own spring, Yugawara No. 17, at about 70 litres a minute and close to 70°C, and it goes into the baths without being cooled with water or recirculated. There are two large baths, one under a high beamed ceiling and an old cypress bath, plus two private open-air baths.

The building follows the slope, with Japanese rooms, a few renovated rooms with their own open-air or cypress baths, and some cheaper rooms without a bath that are popular with people who come for the food.

Take the Oku-Yugawara or Fudō Falls bus to Kōen-iriguchi (about 9 minutes), walk on a little and climb the steep lane on the right by the sign. A taxi is about 10 minutes. There are about seven parking spaces; tell them your car when you book.

Also in the Onsen guide