[2025 Matsuyama Stay] Travel Guide for Yamatoya Honten (Updated Mar)

Matsuyama City, Ehime 🐥 Went to Dogo Onsen and stayed at Yamatoya Main Store 🐣 On the floor in front of the hot spring, they offer sake and snacks after the bath, which is fun and makes you feel like you're at a festival! There was a wide variety of snacks! The room was a little small, but it had a massage chair so I was able to relax! The hot spring had an open-air bath and the water was great ♨︎ There are also rooms with cypress baths!! 📍 Yamatoya Main Store 20-8 Dogo Yunomachi, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture 790-0842 ☎︎ 089-935-8880 #Domestic travel #Summer trip #Ehime #Dogo Onsen #Hot spring #Festival #Accommodation review #Gourmet

Yamatoya Honten is a historic hot spring inn located in the heart of Dogo Onsen, where you can enjoy a relaxing and luxurious time. The Japanese breakfast is a time to soothe your travel fatigue with dishes made with fresh local ingredients. After the bath, there is a sake bar where you can enjoy sake for free, perfect for relaxing after the hot spring. Here, you can enjoy the calm Japanese atmosphere with a glass of sake in hand✨ Drinking sake with snacks is the best🍶 📍Location: 19-23 Dogo Yunomachi, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture #0 Yen Travel February 2025

Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama is the oldest hot spring in Japan and the only exclusive bathhouse for the Japanese royal family. It is said to be the prototype of the bathhouse in 'Spirited Away', with a history of three thousand years. The Dogo Onsen Honkan is the iconic building of Dogo Onsen, built in 1894, a three-story wooden public bathhouse, which is a national important cultural property. In addition to the shopping street, there are various inns, hotels, etc. You can always see tourists who have finished the hot spring and are walking around in yukatas, eating. Only here, you feel that this dress is not out of place, just like seeing a bikini-clad beauty on the sunny beach, becoming part of the scenery. Matsuyama City also retains traditional trams, which are very nostalgic. If you are interested, you can also take a rickshaw and let the handsome guy take you around Dogo Onsen. Dogo Onsen is currently under renovation, surrounded by hoarding and steel frame structures. We visited the Honkan during the day, and at night we wandered through the alleys, found a pub with a strong atmosphere, drank slightly drunk, and then walked back to the hotel, slowly experiencing the ease and tranquility of Dogo Onsen.