Fukiya
A sukiya-style ryokan with seven baths, including two hinoki tubs on the roof, and dinner and breakfast served in your room. Good with children.
- Meals in your room
- Rooftop hinoki baths
- Family-friendly
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Ryokan · onsen district
Genzan Uenoya
One of Yugawara's oldest inns, in a four-storey wooden building from 1930 that's a registered cultural property. Two springs of its own, free private open-air baths, and a hinoki foot bath on the top floor.
- Registered cultural property
- Free private open-air baths
- Rooftop foot bath
About Genzan Uenoya
Uenoya has taken guests since the Edo period, and it's the place to stay if you want old Yugawara. The main building is a four-storey wooden inn from 1930, with an annex from 1923 and an entrance hall from around 1936, all registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. The rooms are tatami, with high ceilings and wood polished by a century of use.
Three rooms have their own hot-spring bath in hinoki or Izu stone. Five rooms share toilets just down the corridor, so pick your room with that in mind. Dinner and breakfast are in the dining room, and some plans serve them in your room.
It's in the middle of the onsen district. Take the Fudō Falls or Oku-Yugawara bus from stop 2 at the station to Onsenba-chūō (about 12 minutes) and walk 50 metres, or take a taxi (about 10 minutes).
Also in the Onsen guide
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The baths
Uenoya has two springs on its own grounds, and the water goes into the baths straight from the source with no chlorine. The indoor baths, Mubyō no Yu, are a granite bath with a gourd-shaped spout and a hinoki bath; men and women swap between them morning and evening.
The two private open-air baths, Fujiki and Chitose, are free for guests. On busy days you book a time at the front desk when you arrive. On the top floor, a hinoki foot bath in an old guest room looks out over the hills.
Uenoya also sells day plans without a night on its booking page.
- Private baths
- Two open-air baths, free for guests. Book at the front desk on busy days
- Spring
- Sodium-calcium chloride-sulphate spring, pH 8.3. No chlorine
- Day visits
- Day plans on the booking page
Find Genzan Uenoya
616 Miyakami, Yugawara
Book and plan
Hours and prices change with the season. The official page has today's details.
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