2025 Hiki District Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in May)

At Tokikawa Onsen Ryokan Tokikawa, you can enjoy unlimited use of the hot spring for 4 hours on a day trip, and you can also enjoy yuzu kaiseki cuisine at the same time 🤤🧡 ⁡ ◾️After arriving at the inn (photos 9 and 10) First, relax with matcha and yuzu yokan 🍵 While eating, we chose our favorite yukata from over 10 types and decided what time to eat!!! ※We wanted to go to the hot spring before dinner, so we asked for the kaiseki cuisine to start at 12 o'clock. ⁡ ◾️Yuzu kaiseki 🍱 and room (photos 1-8) Yuzu was used throughout the kaiseki cuisine, but besides yuzu, various side dishes such as tempura and soba noodles were served, and they were all delicious 👀 ⁡ The soba noodles in particular had a great texture! The soba was so good I wanted to eat a whole serving 🥹 ⁡ As an aperitif, they serve yuzu wine! If you are driving or can't drink alcohol, they can change it to yuzu juice, so just let them know when you make your reservation! ⁡ Also, the cold water is actually hot spring water!! It's tasteless and odorless, so you can drink it like normal delicious water, and I drank a lot of it 😇 ⁡ Towards the end, you can receive yuzu gummies, yuzu tea, and a ballpoint pen 🖊️. ⁡ Since we only have 4 groups per day, reservations tend to fill up on weekends, but please come and visit us!!! --------- ■Tokigawa Ryokan 📍 537 Ono, Tokigawa-cho, Hiki-gun, Saitama 🚃 Chuo-Ome Line Rapid Tokyo to Haijima Station, about 1 hour 10 minutes 🚃 Hachiko Line Haijima to Koma-gawa Station, about 30 minutes 🚃 Hachiko Line Koma-gawa to Akekaku Station, about 20 minutes 🚕 About 15 minutes by taxi to the inn ※There are many transfers by train, so I recommend going by car 😇I went by car! ⁡ 🎟 Price 1 person: 11,800 yen (excluding tax) ※Only available to junior high school students and above. ※Reservations can only be made by email or phone. ※Only cash is accepted. ⁡ OPEN [Daytime] 11:00-15:00 [Evening] 16:00-20:00 ⁡ --------- ⁡ #Domestic travel #Hot springs #Saitama #Tokigawa Ryokan #Day trip hot springs

A good shopping stop during a day trip. Although the store is small, the aroma of soy sauce is so tempting that you can’t help but buy a lot of local products. There are soy sauce ice cream, soy sauce senbei, and various sauces. It is an antique tourist factory full of traditional Japanese food culture. #Japan Saitama Prefecture Kindi Soy Sauce Tourism Factory

I went to Kinbue Soy Sauce Park in Saitama! Here, you can visit the Kinbue Soy Sauce School and see the process of soy sauce being made for free. Soy sauce is something we're all familiar with, but I learned a lot about it that I didn't know before, and now I love it even more! I think it's a great opportunity for people with children to learn in a fun way. The soy sauce ice cream was also delicious! They also serve meals, so I'd like to try it again someday. There was also a wide selection of souvenirs, with lots of soy sauce available. #0YenTravelAutumn

The rooms are extremely comfortable. There are restaurants, shopping and other stores around the hotel, but you can stay comfortably in the rooms. The bathroom and other facilities and amenities are all perfect. As a seasoned traveler, I can confidently recommend this hotel to others.

I went to Tokikawa Ryokan in Tokikawa Onsen, which I had been curious about!!!! ⁡ It's a little pricey, as it costs just over 10,000 yen per person for a 4-hour private onsen (including kaiseki cuisine), but the onsen is amazing, and the food is delicious, so it's a day trip inn that you'll want to go to again and again 🥹🧡 ⁡ ◾️Onsen A highly alkaline onsen with a pH of 11.3! My skin feels smooth even after I've been in the onsen. Even after getting out, it doesn't dry out your skin at all, and it's at a level where you want to bathe every day 🤤 It's 100% natural spring water, with no water added or circulation, so it's nice to be able to bathe in a clean, real hot spring!!! By the way, the source water is only 15 degrees, so it's heated to 40 degrees 👀 ⁡ They have face masks that you can wash off with hot water, and the service of being able to apply a hot spring mask while bathing in the hot spring was so great that I wish other inns had this service too!!! I'll introduce the kaiseki cuisine in the next post 🫡 ⁡ --------- ■Tokigawa Onsen Ryokan Tokigawa 📍 537 Ono, Tokigawa-cho, Hiki-gun, Saitama Prefecture 🚃 Chuo-Ome Line Rapid Tokyo - Haijima Station approx. 1 hour 10 minutes 🚃 Hachiko Line Haijima - Koma-gawa Station approx. 30 minutes 🚃 Hachiko Line Koma-gawa - Mekaku Station About 20 minutes 🚕About 15 minutes by taxi to the inn *If you go by train, you will have to transfer many times, so I recommend going by car😇I went by car! ⁡ 🎟 Price 1 person: 11,800 yen (excluding tax) *Only available for junior high school students and above. *Reservations can only be made by email or phone. *Only cash is accepted. ⁡ OPEN [Daytime session] 11:00-15:00 [Evening session] 16:00-20:00 ⁡ --------- #Domestic travel #Hot spring #Day trip hot spring #Saitama