Gennai

🏮A bamboo-wrapped dining ryokan below Shizugatake, just four groups a night

Shiga · Sokotei Gennai

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A Secluded Dining Ryokan Below Shizugatake

• 🎋A standalone dining ryokan surrounded by bamboo at the foot of Mt. Shizugatake, taking only four overnight groups a day.
• 🏯It sits below the old Shizugatake battlefield and still tells the story of Hideyoshi's famed 'Seven Spears of Shizugatake'.
• 🏡A small inn that aims to feel like a countryside grandmother's home, with an old thatched farmhouse on the grounds to wander around.

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Komyo-seki Private Baths 'Kaiko-no-yu'

• ♨️Two baths sit inside a thatched building down a flight of stone steps, each reserved privately for one group for an hour.
• 🪵Choose a warm wooden Goemon tub bath or a Goemon Choshu bath that makes the water feel soft.
• 💧The bath is based on the medicinal 'Komyo-seki' stone, kept at 42°C and said to help neuralgia, stiff shoulders, back pain, poor circulation and fatigue. Available except during cleaning from 10 to 11 a.m.

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Nostalgic Tatami Rooms

• 🛏️There are seven Japanese-style rooms, with a traditional garden outside the windows that changes color through the seasons.
• 🔥The detached annex, a short walk from the main building, gathers three rooms around an irori hearth—roomy enough for a group of friends.
• 🚽Every room has a toilet, heating and air conditioning, TV and fridge, plus yukata, bath towels, hair dryer and toothbrushes.

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Omi Home Cooking and Charcoal-Grilled Eel

• 🐟Course dinners center on Omi regional cuisine using Lake Biwa fish and local vegetables, including original dishes created by the 14th-generation owner.
• 🍱Favorites include Gennai's charcoal-grilled eel, wild Biwa trout from the lake and crispy kakiage packed with lake shrimp.
• 🍳Omi beef dishes and a family-recipe miso-steamed crucian carp are also served; breakfast features rice cooked in a clay pot with local vegetables.

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Private Dining Rooms and Bar Lounge

• 🍽️Meals are served at leisure in private rooms such as Souko-no-ma, Kaiko-no-ma and Wabi-no-ma.
• 🍸The bar lounge 'Shichisoan' is open from 8 p.m. to midnight and seats up to 10 people.
• 🍲Hot-pot meals can even be set up out in the garden on request.

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Garden and Bamboo Grove

• 🌳From the garden you can take in both the thatched-roof building and the main house.
• 🐦A quiet hillside retreat with open skies and birdsong.
• 🌸In spring, the cherry trees in the parking area come into bloom.

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Access and Pickup

• 🚃About 5 minutes by car from Kinomoto Station on the JR Hokuriku Line; around 85 minutes from Osaka to Kinomoto by Special Rapid.
• 🚕Guests arriving by JR are picked up in a London taxi—just let the inn know in advance.
• 🚗Close to Kinomoto IC on the Hokuriku Expressway, with parking; cross the road from the lot and climb the stone steps to the entrance.

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Nearby Sights

• 🧵The surrounding Oto village still makes raw silk for shamisen and koto strings the traditional way; the Itotori Archive shows the tools and offers demonstrations by reservation.
• 🏘️Kurokabe Square, a cluster of restored Edo-to-Meiji buildings 3 minutes' walk from Nagahama Station, offers glass-craft workshops.
• 🏯Nagahama Castle History Museum, 5 minutes' walk from Nagahama Station, has an observation deck overlooking Lake Biwa.

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Nostalgic Tatami Rooms

• 🛏️There are seven Japanese-style rooms, with a traditional garden outside the windows that changes color through the seasons.
• 🔥The detached annex, a short walk from the main building, gathers three rooms around an irori hearth—roomy enough for a group of friends.
• 🚽Every room has a toilet, heating and air conditioning, TV and fridge, plus yukata, bath towels, hair dryer and toothbrushes.

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Omi Home Cooking and Charcoal-Grilled Eel

• 🐟Course dinners center on Omi regional cuisine using Lake Biwa fish and local vegetables, including original dishes created by the 14th-generation owner.
• 🍱Favorites include Gennai's charcoal-grilled eel, wild Biwa trout from the lake and crispy kakiage packed with lake shrimp.
• 🍳Omi beef dishes and a family-recipe miso-steamed crucian carp are also served; breakfast features rice cooked in a clay pot with local vegetables.

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An intimate little inn for Omi regional cooking and private hot-spring baths. Note that it sits on a hillside with many stairs, offers only private baths (no large communal bath) so there may be a wait, and pets are not allowed.

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* This introduction was compiled from information published by each property (official website and similar sources), so some details may differ from what you find on the day. It is AI-assisted and can contain errors — please check the official website and the details shown at booking before you reserve.

Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 15:00 · Check Out: 11:00 · Last Check In: 20:00

* These policies are the property's own text, in English; the cancellation policy shown at booking takes precedence.

From onsen etiquette to check-in — the things worth knowing first.

What are the check-in and check-out times at Gennai?

Check-in starts at 15:00 and check-out is by 11:00.

Where is Gennai located?

It is in Nagahama. Address: 1529-1 Oto, Kinomotocho.

What is the cancellation and refund policy?

Free-cancellation deadlines vary by rate plan and are shown with each room. Cancelling before the deadline gives a full refund.