Onsen Ryokan Yuen Shinjuku

lovely place to enjoy an onsen with your loved one. Good night view after onsen with free food and beverage available

Nice place to stay with free onsen, plus ice cream. However, it is a bit far from the Shinjuku station (15 mins walking).

We got recommended this hotel by numerous people and it had great reviews online but we did find it a bit overhyped and our least favourite hotel during our time in Japan. The room was a bit scuffed up and could have done with a bit of a freshen up in terms of decoration. That being said it was clean and fine for our stay. The staff were very friendly but didn’t really do much as you had to self check in and check out and I was not told I needed a special card to enter the women’s onsen. The hotel was a bit too busy as well and meant you had to wait a long time to get into the very slow lifts. The location was good though and in a very lively area. I think this hotel would be better suited to friends travelling together rather than a couple.

Highly recommend for couple. The room is very new and clean. The decoration recall me the traditional japanese ryokun in anime. The view from open air onsen is very beautiful.

Excellent Onsen experience, free night snack, not far from metro station. Very Zen, beautiful designed hotel.

A beautiful boutique hotel with a rooftop onsen, at a great price. The room was small, so bring trunk-style luggages instead of those that open flat if possible. I could fit my trunk luggage easily into the nook below the tv. The semi-double bed is also smaller than your regular queen sized ones. While the location is great, it is a long walk from the main Shinjuku JR station, and the distance was truly felt when my feet was in pain and full of blisters from the second day on. The entire hotel was also very dusty for some reason, and it made my partner’s sinus infection act up badly. So I would recommend staying elsewhere if you’re sensitive towards dust. The onsen on the other hand, was great. Didn’t think I’d use it often but I ended up going every night. The onsen water smelled like chlorine most of the time, so don’t expect natural spring water. PS: Men’s onsen is equipped with Dyson hairdryers, but they’re not as strong as the one at home! Women’s one has a different hairdryer, but stronger and nicer than the one in the room. Staff were polite and helpful!