Yugawara Onsen Kamata

♨️An Oku-Yugawara inn with its own springs, where famous writers once worked

Kanagawa · Oku-Yugawara Onsen Kamata

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A Writers' Inn Since 1939

• 📜Founded in 1939, this purely Japanese-style ryokan still preserves the atmosphere of its early days.
• ✒️Critic Kobayashi Hideo stayed here to write in 1947 and went on to spend New Year here for over 30 years until his death.
• 🎨Novelist Mizukami Tsutomu wrote major works here, and kappa drawings left by cartoonist Shimizu Kon hang throughout the inn.

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Open-Air Baths from Private Springs

• ♨️Water from the inn's two own sources flows without recirculation, filtering or disinfection; even the washbasin taps run with hot spring water.
• 🌿The source emerges at 42.4°C and is heated to 55°C; it is a calcium-sulfate spring (pH 7.5) said to be especially good for the skin.
• 🔑Two private open-air baths, Hotaru-no-yu and Momiji-no-yu, are free, need no reservation, and are open from 14:30 to 9:00 the next morning.

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Forest-View Large Baths

• 🪟Both large baths, Kagayaki and Irodori, are on the second floor with big picture windows.
• 🔄The two baths alternate between men and women.
• 🧼Soap made with the inn's own spring water is available to try in the large baths.

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13 Rooms, No Two Alike

• 🏠The 13 rooms are spread across four wings, each with a different layout and its own hot spring bath.
• 🖌️Room names were given by regular guests such as painter Kaburaki Kiyokata and Kobayashi Hideo.
• 🪑All rooms are tatami, but table sets for four and low chairs are available, and rooms with fewer steps can be requested when booking.

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Special Room Tancho

• 📚Mizukami Tsutomu used this room as his study for up to six months at a time; a bedroom and study have since been added.
• 🛏️It has 8-mat and 4.5-mat tatami rooms plus an 8-mat bedroom, for 2 to 5 guests.
• ⛰️On the top floor, its spring-fed bath overlooks the Oku-Yugawara greenery; there are about two floors of stairs from the entrance.

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Seasonal Food from Sea and Mountain

• 🐟Dinner of local seafood and seasonal vegetables is served in your room; not course-by-course kaiseki, but hot dishes are brought out as you eat.
• 🍳Breakfast is also in-room, with Manazuru dried fish, Odawara kamaboko and wasabi pickles as staples.
• 🦞Extra dishes such as Sagami Bay spiny lobster, abalone and wagyu steak can be ordered when booking, and vegetables from the inn's field and wasabi or watercress from the garden sometimes appear.

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A 5,000-Tsubo Natural Garden

• 🌳Across the road along the river, the garden shifts from spring greenery to early-summer fireflies and autumn leaves.
• 💧The Agechi-zawa stream runs at the back of the garden, ideal for a walk after bathing or early in the morning.
• 📶Free Wi-Fi covers the whole inn, and hot spring beauty treatments and massages can be booked.

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Getting There

• 🚌From JR Yugawara Station, take the bus bound for Oku-Yugawara about 20 minutes to the last stop, then walk 2 minutes.
• 🚗By car it is about 10 minutes from the station, with free parking for 15 cars opposite the entrance.
• 🕑Check-in 14:30 (last 18:00), check-out 10:30.

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Forest-View Large Baths

• 🪟Both large baths, Kagayaki and Irodori, are on the second floor with big picture windows.
• 🔄The two baths alternate between men and women.
• 🧼Soap made with the inn's own spring water is available to try in the large baths.

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13 Rooms, No Two Alike

• 🏠The 13 rooms are spread across four wings, each with a different layout and its own hot spring bath.
• 🖌️Room names were given by regular guests such as painter Kaburaki Kiyokata and Kobayashi Hideo.
• 🪑All rooms are tatami, but table sets for four and low chairs are available, and rooms with fewer steps can be requested when booking.

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A long-established Oku-Yugawara inn combining literary history, unrecirculated private springs and a vast natural garden. Built on a slope, it has many stairs and steps, and the official site currently notes that in-room baths are out of use due to a boiler fault, so check before booking.

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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.

♨ Yugawara Onsen · 26 ryokan in this onsen town

Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 14:30 · Check Out: 10:30 · Last Check In: 18:00

* 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 Yugawara Onsen Kamata?

Check-in starts at 14:30 and check-out is by 10:30.

Where is Yugawara Onsen Kamata located?

It is in Ashigarashimo-gun. Address: 784 Miyakami Yugawaramachi.

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.