Hotel Ukai

🥬A former kappo restaurant serving food from its own 800-tsubo farm

Yamanashi · Hotel Ukai, Isawa Onsen

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A small inn born from a kappo restaurant

• 🍶After about 30 years as a kappo restaurant, the owners opened this inn so guests could relax over seasonal cooking.
• 🌊It sits beside the Fuefuki River in the Isawa Onsen area.
• 🏯All 16 guest rooms are Japanese-style tatami rooms.

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Indoor and open-air baths

• ♨️There is an indoor bath plus an outdoor open-air bath where you can feel the seasons.
• 🌙According to the official site, the indoor bath is available 24 hours.
• 🧴Yukata, towels, toothbrush, razor, shampoo and body soap are provided; hair dryers can be borrowed free.

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Garden-side ground floor, upstairs rooms by stairs

• 🌿Ground-floor rooms are detached-style and face the courtyard, laid out as 12 tatami plus a sunroom or 10+6 tatami, with direct access to the courtyard.
• 🛏️Second-floor rooms are 10 to 12 tatami and reached by stairs.
• 🚿Every room has its own bath, toilet, TV and refrigerator.

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Seasonal Japanese-French cooking

• 🍽️The standard half-board plan serves Japanese-French fusion dishes made from ingredients the owner checks personally every day.
• 🐟Plans feature Yamanashi's Fujinosuke fish (a king salmon and trout cross) or torimotsu, simmered chicken giblets.
• 🦌Other plans add horse sashimi with venison carpaccio or smoked venison, or extra eel dishes.

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An 800-tsubo kitchen garden

• 🥕About 800 tsubo of fields grow a range of seasonal vegetables for the kitchen.
• 🌱The inn also grows vegetables rarely seen at markets.
• 🛍️Depending on the season, produce is given as souvenirs or sold at the entrance.

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Facilities and loans

• 🎎An 85-tatami banquet hall with a 10-tatami stage, two 20-tatami halls and a meeting room of about 30 tatami host banquets, memorial gatherings and training camps.
• 💧Behind the building, a water station offers spring water rising from 130 m underground.
• 🚲Bicycles and wheelchairs are free to borrow and extra beds are free on request. Pets are not allowed.

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Cormorant facility on the grounds

• 🐦The grounds hold Ukaiya, Fuefuki City's cormorant facility, where cormorant masters take turns caring for the birds.
• 🏞️Isawa cormorant fishing on the Fuefuki River is kachi-u: the master wades through the river handling a single bird.
• 📜Kachi-u is the only style of its kind in Japan, with more than 800 years of history.

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Getting there

• 🚃Limited express on the JR Chuo Line from Shinjuku to Isawa-Onsen Station takes about 1 hour 30 minutes; then 6 minutes by taxi or 7 minutes by local bus (Fuefuki Koko-mae stop, 2-minute walk).
• 🚐Pick-up service is available with advance reservation.
• 🚗By car, take the Chuo Expressway to Ichinomiya-Misaka IC, then Route 20; parking for 40 cars is free.

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Garden-side ground floor, upstairs rooms by stairs

• 🌿Ground-floor rooms are detached-style and face the courtyard, laid out as 12 tatami plus a sunroom or 10+6 tatami, with direct access to the courtyard.
• 🛏️Second-floor rooms are 10 to 12 tatami and reached by stairs.
• 🚿Every room has its own bath, toilet, TV and refrigerator.

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Seasonal Japanese-French cooking

• 🍽️The standard half-board plan serves Japanese-French fusion dishes made from ingredients the owner checks personally every day.
• 🐟Plans feature Yamanashi's Fujinosuke fish (a king salmon and trout cross) or torimotsu, simmered chicken giblets.
• 🦌Other plans add horse sashimi with venison carpaccio or smoked venison, or extra eel dishes.

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A small inn where home-grown vegetables and a former kappo chef's cooking come at modest prices. Ground-floor room layouts cannot be chosen, and second-floor rooms are reached by stairs only.

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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.

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What are the check-in and check-out times at Hotel Ukai?

Check-in starts at 15:00 and check-out is by 10:00.

Where is Hotel Ukai located?

It is in Fuefuki. Address: 307 Ichibe, Isawacho.

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.