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♨️Edo-era stillness, an onsen entirely your own

Gunma · Kusatsu Onsen Ekinariya Ryokan

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All-Cypress Communal Bath — Shirahata Source, Kakenagashi

• ♨️A communal bath built entirely of top-grade, knot-free cypress
• 🌿The milky-white Shirahata source, considered among the finest in Kusatsu, flows in unaltered as kakenagashi
• 🧖One bath each for men and women, open from check-in through check-out

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A Private Bath Assigned to Every Room

• 🔑A private bath in a separate building, unlocked by your own key with no time limit
• 💧Drawing on two sources — four tiled baths from Yubatake and two cypress baths from Shirahata
• 🛁Not open-air, but bright and comfortable, with a changing-room bench, handrails, and glass partitions

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Rooms with No Neighbors

• 🏯Every room stands apart from the next, a rare layout that guarantees private stillness
• 🍵Pure Japanese-style tatami rooms, 10 mats for 2 guests or 12+ mats for 2-4 guests
• 🌬️Every room has air conditioning and a humidifying air purifier, and all rooms are non-smoking

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Dinner Served in Your Own Private Room

• 🍶Dinner is served in a private dining room, with no overlap with other guests
• 🥩A carefully prepared spread that includes Joshu beef sukiyaki
• 🐟House-made aperitif, Tsumagoi scarlet runner beans, handmade sesame tofu, and sashimi of Gunma-raised rainbow trout, among other dishes

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Private Dining, Renovated in 2025

• 🏮The dining area was renovated in April 2025, with individual dining rooms now on the 1st and 3rd floors
• 🚪All the dishes are laid out at once, so you can dine quietly without staff coming and going
• 💄A fully private space where you needn't worry about makeup removed after bathing

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A Pressed-Flower Inn Founded in Late Edo

• 🏛️Founded in the late Edo period, a storied wooden building raised by a shrine carpenter on the former site of a daikan's residence
• 🌸An 'Inn of Pressed Flowers,' displaying the innkeeper's own pressed-flower art throughout
• 🤫No mahjong, no karaoke — quiet is the house rule

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Steps from Yubatake

• 🗺️A quiet Japanese-style ryokan close to Yubatake, the heart of Kusatsu Onsen
• 🚌About 25 minutes by JR bus from JR Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi Station
• 🚗Six on-site parking spaces with snow-melting heaters; a three-story wooden building with no elevator

Rooms with no neighbors, a private bath assigned to every room, dinner served in your own private space — Ekinariya safeguards quiet time that belongs entirely to you. With Yubatake's atmosphere close at hand, enjoy the kakenagashi flow of Kusatsu's two source springs to the fullest.

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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: 14:00 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 17:00

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