Yunogawa, Yamashiro Onsen, Kagaあらや滔々庵

Araya Totoan

Araya Totoan is a 17-room ryokan in Yunogawa, the old centre of Yamashiro Onsen in Kaga, run by the Araya family for eighteen generations since its first head was made keeper of the Daishoji lords' bath in 1639, and built over the town's original spring. Its rooms look onto a mountain garden made in the Kan'ei era (1624–44), most have their own cypress tub of free-flowing spring water, and the lobby and a tea-room gallery show the calligraphy, ceramics and seal engravings of Kitaoji Rosanjin, who stayed at Yamashiro in 1915 and whose early work the fifteenth proprietor supported by ordering calligraphy, paintings and signboards.

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About the property

Rooms: 17
Bath in the room: Some rooms
Dinner: Private dining room
MICHELIN Keys: 1
Recognition: Gold medal for its spring water at an exhibition in Germany (1911, in the inn's English pages)
Owned by: The Araya family; the present proprietor is the eighteenth Araya Gen'emon

Rooms and suites

Japanese-Western Room with Semi-Open-Air Bath (Wakana; Kutani, Kenroku; Shiramine, Kaede; Matsukaze, Raicho; Shobu, Chigusa)
75 sq m · Mountain garden view · Nine rooms, each a main tatami room and a bedroom with low beds, and a semi-open-air Yoshino cypress tub of free-flowing spring water · sleeps up to five. Wakana, Shiramine and Kaede have a two-tier tub with a shallow lying tier · Kutani, Kenroku, Shobu and Chigusa a stone-paved terrace with designer chairs and contemporary art, Shobu and Chigusa with a small courtyard garden · Matsukaze and Raicho a larger sukiya-style main room and a tea-room-style bedroom.
Twin Room with Open-Air Bath
65 sq m · Mountain garden view · On the fourth to sixth floors: low twin beds on a raised tatami platform, and an open-air spring-water bath on the terrace. Renovated November 2024. Sleeps up to five.
Sukiya-style Twin
48 sq m · Mountain garden view · A sukiya-style tatami room with low twin beds · no private bath is listed. Renovated May 2018. Sleeps up to three.

Suites

Special Room Ochin
about 98 sq m · The oldest room in the inn, associated with successive Daishoji lords and a room Rosanjin liked to stay in, moved to its present place during a renovation: lacquered pillars and vermilion Kaga walls, a bedroom with low beds on tatami, and a two-tier semi-open-air bath of free-flowing spring water.
Hanare Arisugawa (detached villa)
Two tatami rooms of 15 and 12.5 tatami, plus a bedroom · Mountain garden and centuries-old trees view · A wooden house at the end of a covered walkway through the garden, built without nails in the early Meiji era on imperial orders and used by princes of the Arisugawa and Komatsu houses · a bar from 2001, made a guest room in 2023. Bedroom with low beds on the garden-side corridor, a large bathroom of free-flowing spring water, and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito's calligraphy 'Kozan seishu' from his visit in 1889.

Dining and wellness

Kobako crab (香箱蟹) from Hashidate port, on Kutani porcelain
Hassun of the autumn kaiseki
A spread of the winter crab kaiseki
Breakfast of many small dishes on a wooden tray

Private dining rooms (食事処): kaiseki in private rooms · breakfast and dinner
Wellness: Two large spring baths with open-air sections (Ruriko and Gensenkaku), the Karasu-yu mist bath, and private spring baths in 11 rooms; no spa or gym.

Where it is

Kaga-Onsen station: 10 min by the hotel’s car
Kanazawa station: 30 min by train
Komatsu Airport: 30 min by taxi

18-119 Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga

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The inn's FAQ on its GLTJP directory listing says guests with tattoos may use the shared baths.

Komatsu Airport, about 25 minutes by taxi.