Watarase Onsen Hotel Sasayuri

♨️Free-flowing riverside open-air baths and eight private baths in Kumano Hongu

Wakayama · Watarase Onsen Hotel Sasayuri

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A hot spring inn in the Kumano hills

• 🏞️Set in Watarase Onsen, one of the Kumano Hongu hot spring villages, surrounded by the Kii mountains and woodland.
• 🏨Part of the three-building 'Keyaki no Mori Watarase Onsen' complex, Sasayuri stands on a river sandbar and centers on Japanese-Western rooms.
• 🌌At night the sky fills with stars, and in early summer fireflies dance around the grounds.

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Riverside grand open-air bath

• ♨️Clear sodium bicarbonate-chloride water (a bicarbonate spring) flows straight from the source, known locally as a 'beauty bath'.
• 🌿The gender-separated grand open-air bath is free for overnight guests, open 6:00-22:00 (last entry 21:30).
• 🛁Inside Sasayuri is a guests-only indoor bath for men and women, open 15:00-24:00 and 6:00-10:00.

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Private open-air baths

• 🔑Four family private open-air baths need no booking; just use any free one, about 60 minutes per group, 6:00-23:30.
• 🏞️The 'Sasayuri' and 'Himeyuri' baths face the stream, so you soak to the sound of running water.
• 🛁Four more private open-air baths are reserved for Sasayuri guests, free with a key from the front desk; book ahead to keep one for your whole stay for 5,500 yen per night (tax incl.).

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Rooms

• 🛏️30 rooms in total: 16 Japanese-Western, 4 Deluxe Japanese-Western, 2 Special Japanese-Western, 2 barrier-free Japanese-Western and 6 Western twins, all non-smoking.
• 🚽Rooms have a toilet; only the Special Japanese-Western rooms have their own bath, plus two TVs and a massage chair.
• 📶Every room has air conditioning, a fridge, humidifying air purifier, washlet toilet, safe and Wi-Fi.

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Dining

• 🍱Dinner is a kaiseki set of seasonal mountain and sea produce served in the restaurant, with the menu changing monthly.
• 🥩Add-ons include Kumano beef steak (5,500 yen), whale sashimi (1,650 yen) and Ise spiny lobster dishes (6,600 yen).
• 🍚Breakfast is a Japanese set meal of local ingredients; the hot spring rice porridge and seasonal hot spring tofu are favorites.

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Facilities

• 🍶A modern Japanese-style lobby, a restaurant with large windows and a lounge stocked with Kumano sake.
• 🎁There is a Wakayama specialty shop, an open-air-bath canteen serving noodles and rice bowls (9:00-19:00) and a coin laundry (7:00-21:00).
• 🐕A heated and air-conditioned pet house has 5 cages (2,200 yen per cage per night); pets are not allowed inside the hotel.

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Sights and access

• ⛩️The inn sits along the Kumano Kodo Nakahechi route, about 10 minutes by car from Kumano Hongu Taisha, with a free shuttle to the Kumano Kodo.
• 🚌A free shuttle bus runs once a day from JR Shirahama Station (13:00 from the station, 10:30 from the hotel); call by the day before to book.
• 🚃By bus it is about 120 minutes from JR Kii-Tanabe Station or about 60 minutes from Shingu Station toward Hongu Taisha; by car about 70 minutes from Kamitonda IC.

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Private open-air baths

• 🔑Four family private open-air baths need no booking; just use any free one, about 60 minutes per group, 6:00-23:30.
• 🏞️The 'Sasayuri' and 'Himeyuri' baths face the stream, so you soak to the sound of running water.
• 🛁Four more private open-air baths are reserved for Sasayuri guests, free with a key from the front desk; book ahead to keep one for your whole stay for 5,500 yen per night (tax incl.).

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Rooms

• 🛏️30 rooms in total: 16 Japanese-Western, 4 Deluxe Japanese-Western, 2 Special Japanese-Western, 2 barrier-free Japanese-Western and 6 Western twins, all non-smoking.
• 🚽Rooms have a toilet; only the Special Japanese-Western rooms have their own bath, plus two TVs and a massage chair.
• 📶Every room has air conditioning, a fridge, humidifying air purifier, washlet toilet, safe and Wi-Fi.

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A good base for the Kumano Kodo with a riverside grand open-air bath and eight private baths, all fed straight from the source. Note that most rooms have a toilet but no bath, and the station shuttle runs only once a day.

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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: 14:00 · Check Out: 11:00 · Last Check In: 19:00

* 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 Watarase Onsen Hotel Sasayuri?

Check-in starts at 14:00 and check-out is by 11:00.

Where is Watarase Onsen Hotel Sasayuri located?

It is in Tanabe. Address: 45-1 Hongucho-wataze.

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.