Oku-Yugawara Tsubaki

Most beautiful place to stay. The hot springs are fantastic. The food and service is beyond excellent. You cannot help but relax here. You will leave refreshed, relaxed and in another state of mind. A place I have been several times and will be back.

Exceptional traditional ryokan in Hakone and Yugawara. The thoughtfulness and service of the staff was wonderful in every aspect. Rooms were supplied with traditional robes, comfortable sleepwear, onsen on our terrace and hot spring baths. Kaiseki cuisine was delicious, plentiful and presentation was over the top. This is a beautiful facility with an excellent staff. If you want to experience Japanese culture at its finest you need to come here. Our 4 day visit was perfect and worth every penny. We will be back!

As it is said to be a restaurant where you can stay overnight, everything from the parking lot to the entry, the garden, the furniture, the baths, and dinner is just as expected. The open-air bath overlooking the garden in my room gave me a sense of the seasons, and I was able to stretch my legs in the private stone bathtub (I'm about 170cm tall). I was able to relax on a deck chair on the porch and enjoy a beer after taking a bath. There was also a cypress bath in the room, and you could enjoy the scent of cypress while looking out at the pond, albeit through the window. I enjoyed the sound of nightingales in the large public bath outside my room while looking out at the mountains in the distance. It's also nice that you can enter at any time during your stay. 　 Dinner was a kaiseki meal at a Japanese restaurant, but the combination of ingredients was very new, and I felt that the concept was common to Japanese tradition and Basque ristorantes. I was able to take advantage of the flavors of the ingredients, enjoy the unique combinations, and enjoy the sensations of different intervals in my mouth one after another. The intervals between the dishes are perfect, so you never have to wait too long, and the next one never arrives before you've finished eating. 　 The "tea" served was also wonderful. Matcha while filling out the accommodation book upon arrival, Sencha while getting a tour of the hotel after arriving at the room, and Hojicha after dinner.The temperature and strength of the water are controlled for each type, and the skill of the Nakai is high. The height was also great. So far, I think you can get a similar or better experience at a restaurant or hotel with a ★ rating, but the breakfast was amazing. It was served in about nine small bowls, and the ingredients were carefully selected to perfection. Additionally, the rice was cooked in a pot and was excellent. I once heard from a hotel manager, ``The quality of a hotel's breakfast is determined by the quality of its breakfast,'' and I thought that was certainly true. It was a happy holiday for me to be able to have all of these experiences in my room.