A hotel brand in Japan
Hoshinoya
Hoshinoya is the luxury brand of Hoshino Resorts, a family company that began as a ryokan in Karuizawa in 1914.
The first Hoshinoya opened there in 2005, and each since has been built on a theme taken from its place's land, history and culture. Beyond Japan there are Hoshinoya Bali and Hoshinoya Guguan in Taiwan.
- Places to stay
- 7
- Ryokans among them
- 2
What they share
- Dinner is not included in the room rate; meals are booked after the room
- Meals cancelled on the day are charged in full
- Check-out is at noon
How to choose
For a hot spring in the city
Hoshinoya Tokyo: indoor and open-air baths on the 17th floor, a walk from Tokyo station
For the river
Hoshinoya Kyoto: reached by its own boat up the Oi river in Arashiyama
For woods and a bathhouse
Hoshinoya Karuizawa: pavilions along a river beside the Wild Bird Forest, with Tombo-no-yu
For an island
Hoshinoya Taketomi Island: red-tiled villas built as a village on Taketomi
For history
Hoshinoya Nara Prison: suites made of joined cells in a 1908 red-brick prison
5 hotels, 2 ryokans
Hannyaji-cho, Nara
HotelHoshinoya Nara Prison
星のや奈良監獄
Suites of joined cells in a 1908 red-brick Meiji prison
Arashiyama, Kyoto
RyokanHoshinoya Kyoto
星のや京都
By its own boat up the Oi river to a 17th-century villa
Gima, Okinawa
HotelHoshinoya Okinawa
星のや沖縄
Low suites on 1 km of coast behind a gusuku-style wall
Taketomi Island
HotelHoshinoya Taketomi Island
星のや竹富島
A village of red-tiled, coral-walled villas
Oishi, Lake Kawaguchi
HotelHoshinoya Fuji
星のや富士
Japan's first glamping: campfires in a hillside pine forest
Hoshino area, Karuizawa
HotelHoshinoya Karuizawa
星のや軽井沢
Pavilions along a river beside the Wild Bird Forest
Otemachi, Tokyo
RyokanHoshinoya Tokyo
星のや東京
A tower of small inns, with a spring from 1,500 m down
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Q&A
Some are. Hoshinoya Tokyo and Hoshinoya Kyoto are run as ryokans; Hoshinoya Fuji is a hillside glamping resort, and Hoshinoya Okinawa and Hoshinoya Taketomi Island are island resorts.
No. At every Hoshinoya on our list dinner is booked separately after the room, and same-day cancellations are charged in full; Hoshinoya Kyoto and Hoshinoya Tokyo also serve dinner in the room if booked.
Hoshinoya Tokyo has hot-spring baths on its top floor, and Hoshinoya Karuizawa has the Tombo-no-yu bathhouse and a Meditation Bath. Hoshinoya Kyoto, Hoshinoya Nara Prison, Hoshinoya Okinawa and Hoshinoya Taketomi Island have no hot spring.
Hoshino Resorts does not bar tattoos, though Hoshinoya Tokyo may refuse the bath if staff judge they would cause discomfort. At Tombo-no-yu, by Hoshinoya Karuizawa, tattoos must be covered with stickers sold at reception.