Ryokans that welcome children

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

The Kan'in imperial summer villa, an inn since 1948

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

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

Eight rooms, each with its garden, in an 1873 sukiya house

Garden pavilions on a pond, looking across to Miyajima

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

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

Eighteen generations over Yamashiro's original spring

The Horiuchi merchants' 1876 estate, bathhouse opposite

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

Kengo Kuma's storehouse style behind Ukimido in Nara Park

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

Edo-period rooms, Sanchi Ogawa's stained-glass baths

Rebuilt by Tetsuo Kobori, every room on its own courtyard

Sukiya houses by Kyoto temple carpenters in Unzen's hills

Alone at the end of a valley road, 1,050 m up since 1931

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

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

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

Kengo Kuma's bamboo screens in a Taisho inn, eight rooms

Terrace baths down the side of the Hayakawa gorge

A tower of small inns, with a spring from 1,500 m down

Its own golden 69.2°C spring on every sunset terrace

Seven hinoki baths open to an Ogawa Jihei garden

Twenty-five suites, each bath facing Lake Shikotsu

Five houses in the Kasugayama Primeval Forest

Jazz on JBL Paragons by a fire, beside the Momiji falls

An Edo sugar merchant's house and storehouses on the canal

Twelve old farmhouses, moved and rebuilt in the woods

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

Seven sukiya rooms, one a Nabeshima-domain villa

Sixteen rooms in a garden of 209 cherry trees

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

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