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🎋A bamboo-grove day, colored by the sound of the Kinugawa River

Tochigi · Kinugawa Onsen Wakatake no syou

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Rooms Facing the River

• 🛏️Set slightly apart from the busy onsen town, facing the Kinugawa River and surrounding satoyama
• 🌿Standard Japanese rooms span 12.5 tatami mats, with the mountain stream and hills filling the window
• 🪑The top-floor 6th-floor corner Japanese-Western and Western rooms are fully barrier-free, with a massage chair

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The Sounds of the Seasons and an Open-Air Bath

• ♨️A generous open-air bath you'll want to return to morning, noon, and night
• 🍃Bathe to the sound of melting snow in spring, cicadas in summer, falling leaves in autumn, and snowfall in winter
• 🕔Open 5:00-10:00am and 3:30pm-midnight

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A Gentle Alkaline Simple Spring

• 💧A gently bubbling, mildly alkaline simple spring that glides smoothly over the skin
• 🧖Effective for neuralgia, joint pain, fatigue, frozen shoulder, muscle pain, and stomach ailments
• 🛁A private bath is also available, with a large window that opens for a half-open-air feel (¥3,300 for 45 minutes, by reservation)

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Seasonal Bamboo-Grove Kaiseki

• 🍽️A kaiseki course that changes monthly, savored one plate at a time with seasonal ingredients
• 👨‍🍳Nothing pre-made — the head chef even selects the tableware personally
• 🥩À la carte options are also available, including Tochigi Shimofuri highland beef sirloin steak and Nikko yuba sashimi

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Third-Floor Dining Street

• 🏮Private rooms for gatherings and a large hall are set up along the 3rd-floor dining street
• 🪵Recreated with a well and cauldron, evoking the kitchen of an old village headman's house
• 🕖Open for dinner 6:00-9:00pm and breakfast 7:45-9:00am

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Facilities and Spa Treatments

• 🛍️At the 1st-floor gift shop Iimonoya, Aizu's spicy karamiso is a bestseller
• 🌙Spend the evening at the 2nd-floor late-night spot Taketonbo or Club Yumeichiya
• 💆An aroma lymphatic treatment, using hands alone to guide the flow of the lymph system

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Kinugawa Scenery and Access

• 🚗About 2 hours 30 minutes by car from the Tokyo metro area, or about 2 hours by the Spacia limited express
• 🚌Free shuttle from Kinugawa-koen Station (advance reservation)
• 🅿️An 8-minute walk from JR Kinugawa-koen Station, with parking for 40 cars

Give yourself over to the sound of the Kinugawa River and the seasons around it — a day of forgetting the everyday noise with bamboo-grove kaiseki and a silky open-air bath. Let time pass slowly at Wakatake no Sho.

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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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Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 15:00 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 18:00

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