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🖼️Sleep in an art gallery, soak in a 300-year hot spring

Yamagata, Akayu Onsen · Ryokan Yamatoya

1

A Ryokan Like an Art Museum

• 🎨A standing collection of over 300 works, including pieces by Picasso and Rosanjin
• 🏛️A gallery-style ryokan where you stay surrounded by the 'breath of masterpieces'
• ✨A front desk lit by chandeliers, and spaces filled with art throughout

2

A 300-Year Secluded Bath, Yagoro no Yu

• ♨️Akayu Onsen, with 900 years of history — a mildly alkaline salt spring known as 'water of beauty'
• 💧100% natural spring water, served kakenagashi
• 🌿Water said to ease neuralgia, muscle pain, poor circulation, and benefit the skin

3

Two Signature Grand Baths

• 🪨'Tennen Iwaburo,' a natural rock open-air bath reflecting the changing seasons
• 🏛️'Marble Roman Bath,' finished in white marble and stained glass
• 🕛Open to guests 24 hours a day

4

Rooms with Their Own Hot Spring Bath

• 🛏️'Yamato no Ma' — a Simmons bed paired with a ceramic hot spring tub (15 mats, sleeps 4)
• 🌲'Meiboku no Ma' — 60-year-old Yoshino cedar and a stone tub (10 mats, sleeps 6)
• 🔥'Irori no Ma' — an irori hearth and a hinoki cypress tub (10 mats, sleeps 3)

5

The Luxury of an In-Room Open-Air Bath

• 🌲Hot spring water in a fragrant hinoki cypress tub
• 🛁A variety of tub styles by room — ceramic, marble, hinoki, and jet bath
• 🤫Entirely private time, free from anyone's gaze

6

The Cuisine: Yonezawa Beef Kaiseki

• 🥩Yonezawa beef served as filet steak, shabu-shabu, and sukiyaki
• 🍶Wine and sake from the nearby Nan'yo region
• 🍱Creative seasonal kaiseki, from spring's 'Ransakura no En' to winter's 'Yukimi no En'

7

Breakfast, Made with a Local Touch

• 🍳A hearty, homestyle breakfast centered on local dishes
• 🥬A spread built around mountain vegetables and Yamagata ingredients

Two and a half hours by Shinkansen from Tokyo, at Yamatoya, where art and hot spring flow as one.

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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

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