Okukinu Onsen Hotel Kaniyu

The hot springs are superb! Suitable for pure hot spring lovers. Recommended for friends who focus on hot springs, and the food and living conditions are average.

I visited Okinu again after five years and stayed at the Garito Hot Spring Hotel. Take the car from Nufufubuchi Hotel up the mountain and it's a 20-minute drive on the mountain road. You can also choose not to take a car and hike up the mountain for 90 minutes to the hotel. The hotel is deep in the mountains, and the hot springs are close to the valley.

🍃 The hotel is located in the mountains, the air is very fresh, and there are walking trails nearby; it is a very niche destination, almost all Japanese tourists. It is more quiet and comfortable than Kinugawa, like a paradise, it is a great time Travel! 🚃 There is a direct shuttle bus from Asakusa Station to Okkinu Onsen Station. After exiting the station, change to the bus at the No. 1 platform on the left side of the square. The road is full of green and beautiful scenery of mountains, rivers, lakes, and streams. The journey takes approximately 1.5 hours later, after arriving at Nyofubuchi Station, transfer to the exclusive shuttle bus to reach the hotel. (Detailed public transportation guide can be found on the hotel’s official website, no ladder required) 💁 The reception staff at the hotel's front desk speak very good English. You only need to worry about whether your English level can be fully understood. They are also very welcoming to foreign tourists! If you know a little bit of Triangle Cat's Japanese, you can communicate here without any barriers~ When you check in, you can reserve a private bath time, confirm the dinner time, etc. at the front desk (50 minutes, special soup package) 🍱 It is highly recommended to choose the price package that includes dinner. The dinner variety is very rich, including sashimi, beef, boiled food, pickled food, as well as desserts and a small glass of wine. After soaking in the hot springs, go to enjoy dinner. It can be said to be the ultimate experience! The breakfast is also great, and the meal-inclusive price is very cost-effective. ♨️ The hot springs are simply amazing. In addition to the indoor hot springs separated for men and women, there are also 3 large open-air hot springs. One of them is for women only, so you don’t have to worry about the embarrassment of mixed bathing; everything is full of sulfur smell and the soup is very turbid. , it’s the turbidity of minerals! In the deep mountains and old forests, soaking in such a pleasant hot spring and closing your eyes can completely forget your worries. Occasionally, you can hear one or two birds chirping, which really makes you recite a poem. 🎑 I’m very lucky that my guest room is located by the valley. When I open the window, I can hear the white noise of the stream. There are tea and sweet biscuits in the room. I sit by the window and make two cups of tea. I can completely relax myself and listen to the stream. one day! 🗺️ If you are a traveler from Tokyo and have enough time, I suggest you plan a two-day itinerary here: on the first day, take a bus from Tokyo to Kinugawa Hot Spring in Shimoimaichi to visit. There are many interesting attractions here. Take the bus to Garen Tang on the second day, so that the trip will not be rushed! And you can experience niche destinations in depth~ ❤️ Finally, I hope I will have the opportunity to experience it again in the future! And I wish the boss a prosperous business! All in all, it’s a very recommended place!

The location is about an hour and a half by bus from Kinugawa Onsen Station. Transfer to the Songyong bus and arrive in about 30 minutes more. The road to the shuttle bus is unpaved, so my butt shakes as I go. It was quite fun, and the scenery along the way was pretty, so I think I arrived sooner than I thought. The room was clean and nice. The staff were also friendly, I was also very satisfied with the facilities.

The hotel front desk is very attentive and highly recommended

We arrived at the municipal Meotobuchi parking lot after a hard fight in the snowstorm that was the strongest cold wave of this winter. , I arrived at Kaniyu Onsen. The roots of this inn were mountain huts for mountain climbers, so it was a calm and quiet inn, although it did not have the facilities of a luxury inn. My grandchildren were able to fully enjoy the kamakura and sledding built in front of the entrance. In particular, there are five rare hot springs where you can taste the hot water, and you can enjoy snow viewing baths in the open-air baths.

A typhoon passed near the Kanto region on the morning of our stay, and it was raining all the time due to the aftermath, but we managed to arrive safely by courtesy car. In fact, during the pick-up section, there was a problem with a fallen tree blocking the road, which was not there when the pick-up car was picked up. Fortunately, the tree wasn't that big, and the foreign driver was trying to remove it somehow. The other passengers also thanked me, and that alone made me happy, but I was treated to draft beer by the employee, the driver of the courtesy car, as a thank you. Moreover, I had two drinks and even my wife who was left in the car... thank you for the meal. Aside from the digression, I checked in at 12:30 when check-in started with this transfer. The hot water started to be pumped into the indoor bath, but the hot water wasn't filled yet, but the hot water was still clear and fresh, even though it contained sulfur. It was a little hot, but I thoroughly enjoyed the highest-class hot water in terms of texture and strength. (Some people left after seeing that the bathtub wasn't cloudy...) I don't know if it happens every time, but I recommend checking in early even if you skip other sightseeing! The next day, the indoor bath was also cloudy, and there was a difference in freshness. Due to the corona crisis, I think many guest rooms are unused, but the dining room is still full. However, strangely enough, I didn't see other guests in most of the baths, so my wife was able to take a bath in all the mixed bathing open-air baths. Aside from the completely open-air second open-air bath where you can see a waterfall with a small amount of water in front of you, the third open-air bath, which is the largest, has separate dressing rooms for men and women, and the entrance to the bathtub is right next to the dressing room, so you can soak in the hot water and go to the back. If you proceed, it is made to keep privacy so so. If there are no slippers at the entrance of the men's changing room, even women can enter the mixed bathing open-air bath, as you can tell where the slippers are taken off. I think it's an interesting idea to have small baths with different spring types. The changing rooms here are also gender-segregated, and if two people enter, the space is too large for the other person to enter, so I think women can take a bath if they wear a bath towel and enter with men. The food wasn't fancy, but it was all delicious. The whole building, including the rooms, is old, but if you are looking for this hot water, you should not have any problems. Many customers (insects) were seen in the dressing room next to the open-air bath, partly because it was autumn. I think that it is an inn without complaints for customers who enjoy hot water. By the way, you can enter the hot spring even after checking out.

This is my third visit. I visited during the fresh green of last year and by bicycle in the snow. I arrived at Kaniyu. After all, from the 11th to the 17th, there was no one-day hot spring. The reason was that it was being hit on the internet that it might be the three Cs on SNS. I decided to go to Nikkozawa Onsen because I could enter other places. I returned to Kaniyu Onsen. They are open for lunch from 12:00 to 1:00. Wild vegetable soba is 600 yen Tempura soba is 800 yen The tempura is crispy.