A hotel brand in Japan
Fufu
Fufu is the resort brand of Kato Pleasure Group, a Tokyo company founded in 1962 that also runs the Tsurutontan udon restaurants.
The first Fufu opened in Atami in 2007, and the idea has held since: a small house of suites, each with its own hot-spring bath, where you eat in the restaurant rather than in your room.
- Places to stay
- 10
- Ryokans among them
- 7
- With a hot spring in every room
- 10
What they share
- Every room has its own hot-spring bath
- Between 20 and 40 rooms in each house
- Dinner is a Japanese course in the house's own restaurant
- Children are welcome, with a set child rate up to age 12
How to choose
For the first Fufu
Fufu Atami: the house's own spring runs free-flowing into every open-air bath
For Mount Fuji
Fufu Kawaguchiko: open-air baths laid with Fuji lava, above Lake Kawaguchi
For the sea
Fufu Jogashima Melody of the Sea Breeze: all 34 suites face the ocean from an island off Miura
For Kyoto
Fufu Kyoto: hinoki baths by Nanzen-ji, a walk from Keage station
For a night in Tokyo
Fufu Tokyo Ginza: suites with terrace gardens above Chuo-dori, filled with Atami spring water
3 hotels, 7 ryokans
Honcho, Nikko
RyokanFufu Nikko
ふふ 日光
On the site of the Tamozawa Imperial Villa's 1914 annexe
Nanzenji, Kyoto
RyokanFufu Kyoto
ふふ 京都
Hinoki baths by the canal at Nanzen-ji, next to Murin-an
Kawaguchi, Kawaguchiko
RyokanFufu Kawaguchiko
ふふ 河口湖
Open-air baths laid with Fuji lava, above the lake
Gora, Hakone
RyokanFufu Hakone
ふふ 箱根
Thirty-nine suites in a Gora forest, milky Owakudani water
Nagakura, Karuizawa
HotelFufu Karuizawa Wind in the Sunshine
ふふ 軽井沢 陽光の風
A heated stone bed beside each bath, Mount Asama ahead
Kumoba Pond, Karuizawa
HotelFufu Kyu-Karuizawa Restful Forest
ふふ 旧軽井沢 静養の森
Twenty suites with fireplaces by Kumoba Pond
Takabatake, Nara
RyokanFufu Nara
ふふ 奈良
Kengo Kuma's storehouse style behind Ukimido in Nara Park
Ginza 1-chome, Tokyo
RyokanFufu Tokyo Ginza
ふふ 東京 銀座
Atami's spring water, piped to suites above Chuo-dori
Minaguchi-cho, Atami
RyokanFufu Atami
ふふ 熱海
Atami spring No. 47, the house's own, in every bath
Jogashima, Miura
HotelFufu Jogashima Melody of the Sea Breeze
ふふ 城ヶ島 海風のしらべ
An island off Miura, every bath facing Fuji across the bay
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Q&A
Kato Pleasure Group, a Tokyo company founded in 1962 that also runs the Tsurutontan udon restaurants. Its first Fufu was Fufu Atami, opened in 2007; Fufu Tokyo Ginza and Fufu Jogashima are the newest on our list.
Yes, at all ten on our list. The bath is open-air at Fufu Atami, Fufu Kawaguchiko and Fufu Nara, and indoor at Fufu Kyoto, Fufu Kyu-Karuizawa and Fufu Jogashima.
Only some: Fufu Atami, Fufu Hakone, Fufu Kawaguchiko and Fufu Nikko have large shared baths. Fufu Kyoto, Fufu Nara, Fufu Tokyo Ginza, Fufu Jogashima and both Karuizawa houses have none, though Fufu Nara has a private bath to hire.
Yes; every house on our list takes children, with a set rate for those aged 12 and under. Teppanyaki dinners at Fufu Atami, Fufu Hakone, Fufu Kyu-Karuizawa and Fufu Nikko are for children aged ten and over.