A hot spring in every room

A Noh stage over the pond, one family's inn since 1484

On the site of the Tamozawa Imperial Villa's 1914 annexe

Forty-two suites looking due west at Fuji's summit

Hinoki baths by the canal at Nanzen-ji, next to Murin-an

Where Kawabata wrote, at the meeting of two Amagi rivers

Minka pavilions above Ago Bay's islets and pearl rafts

Ten villas on a farm hillside facing Mount Yufu

Open-air baths laid with Fuji lava, above the lake

Eleven cottages in a 1921 villa's woods on Lake Kinrin

Inside the Takeo lord's 1845 garden below Mount Mifune

Jomon pottery dug on site, Mount Asama across the forest

Thatched farmhouses; Japan's first room with its own onsen

Kita kaiseki and its own spring, pumped from 1,000 m down

Sixteen butler-kept suites over the Kano River

Four suites, their own spring, and a Kitcho-trained chef

Sixteen rooms on a temple hill, facing a forest garden

Walnut and tatami rooms, each bath a different shape

Habuka's curving corridor, Mount Tanigawa from every room

Thirty-nine suites in a Gora forest, milky Owakudani water

A heated stone bed beside each bath, Mount Asama ahead

Twenty suites with fireplaces by Kumoba Pond

Kengo Kuma's storehouse style behind Ukimido in Nara Park

Atami's spring water, piped to suites above Chuo-dori

Sea baths on the Abunze lava coast, facing sunrise

Forest villas above the sea at Mugio, a 24 m infinity pool

Three Aizu farmhouses rebuilt with nail-free joinery

Five rooms, rebuilt after the 1939 house burned in 2021

Twelve villas alone on an island in the Amakusa sea

A 1985 sukiya guest house, Miró in the dining room

Miró and Chagall on the walls, an Italian dining room

Four suites in a Kanazawa ryotei of 1965, with its kappo

Cottages in a coppice wood, once a Zen temple's rest house

Adults-only suites on Lake Akan's south shore

Atami spring No. 47, the house's own, in every bath

An island off Miura, every bath facing Fuji across the bay

Terrace baths down the side of the Hayakawa gorge

Its own golden 69.2°C spring on every sunset terrace

French eaten with chopsticks, milky Owakudani water

Nine rooms round a grove of 8,000 bamboo, for adults

Its own golden spring, across a suspension bridge

Twenty-five suites, each bath facing Lake Shikotsu

A book hotel in bare concrete above 10,000 titles

Twelve old farmhouses, moved and rebuilt in the woods

Hisaya Iwasaki's 1929 villa in a garden by Jihei Ogawa

All in lake white, with a waterfall corridor

Bamboo-grove villas, all 30 baths straight from the source

Three villas on 60 hectares of hills cleared from bamboo

A Tokyo ryotei's bamboo-grove inn, with its own kendo hall

Twelve villas each of one material, chosen by Koichi Uchida