Tattoo-friendly onsen near Tokyo

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

Across Lake Chuzenji to Mount Nantai, with a sulphur spring

Where Kawabata wrote, at the meeting of two Amagi rivers

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

Sixteen butler-kept suites over the Kano River

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

Habuka's curving corridor, Mount Tanigawa from every room

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

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

A 1985 sukiya guest house, Miró in the dining room

Miró and Chagall on the walls, an Italian dining room

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

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

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

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

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