Japan
Ise-Shima
Ise-Shima is the coast of the Ise shrines, the most sacred in Shinto, and of Ago Bay, where pearl rafts float among wooded inlets.
Most of our places look over the bay, from Amanemu at Hamajima and Cova Kakuda in a pearl farm's old workshop to The Hiramatsu Kashikojima and Shima Kanko Hotel The Bay Suites at Kashikojima. Yunoyama Sosuikyo is well apart from them, about 70 km to the north near Yokkaichi, in the hot-spring town below Mount Gozaisho, and suits a night on the way from Nagoya. We know 5 places to stay here. At Amanemu and Yunoyama Sosuikyo, every room has its own hot-spring bath.
How to choose
With children
Amanemu: children welcome, with a Kids Academy, and a hot-spring bath in every suite
For the food
The Hiramatsu Kashikojima: French cooking of Ise lobster and abalone over Ago Bay
For a quiet villa on the water
Cova Kakuda: four villas in a pearl farm's workshop on a cove, for guests 13 and over
For a suite over the bay
Shima Kanko Hotel The Bay Suites: suites of 100 sq m and up over the pearl rafts of Ago Bay
For a hot spring of your own
Yunoyama Sosuikyo: every villa has an open-air bath from the inn's own spring
When to go
Spring and autumn are the most comfortable, and the coast is mild in winter; summer is hot and humid, and the Ise shrines are at their busiest over the New Year.
How long
Two nights, from Kyoto, Osaka or Nagoya.
Getting there
Kintetsu limited expresses reach Kashikojima from Nagoya in about two hours, from Osaka-Namba in about two and a half and from Kyoto in about 2 hours 45 minutes, and from Tokyo the Shinkansen to Nagoya takes about 1 hour 40 minutes. Yunoyama Onsen is about an hour from Nagoya by express bus, and Chubu Centrair airport is about 30 minutes from Nagoya by train.
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Hamajima, Shima
HotelAmanemu
アマネム
Minka pavilions above Ago Bay's islets and pearl rafts
Ugata, Ise-Shima
AubergeThe Hiramatsu Kashikojima
THE HIRAMATSU HOTELS & RESORTS 賢島
French cooking of Ise lobster and abalone over Ago Bay
Katada, Shima
HotelCova Kakuda
COVA KAKUDA
A pearl farm's workshop on Ago Bay, made into four villas
Kashikojima, Ise-Shima
HotelShima Kanko Hotel The Bay Suites
志摩観光ホテル ザ ベイスイート
Suites over the pearl rafts of Ago Bay, where the G7 met
Yunoyama Onsen, Komono
HotelYunoyama Sosuikyo
湯の山 素粋居
Twelve villas each of one material, chosen by Koichi Uchida
Sample trips through Ise-Shima
Routes we have drawn up that stay in Ise-Shima: starting points for a trip we build around your dates and pace.
7 nights · Any season
Eating through Kansai: Osaka, the coast of Ise-Shima and Kyoto
A trip for people who travel to eat: two nights in Osaka, the Shimakaze to the pearl bays of Ise-Shima for French cooking from Ise lobster, abalone and Matsusaka beef, and three nights in Kyoto.
7 nights · Autumn and winter
Nara, Higashiyama and Ise-Shima: the Shimakaze to Amanemu
A trip from the old capitals to the coast of the Kii peninsula: an inn in the forest behind Kasuga Taisha, a hotel on the Higashiyama hillside, then Kintetsu's Shimakaze to Amanemu above Ago Bay.
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Q&A
Amanemu has a hot-spring bath in every suite and villa, and Yunoyama Sosuikyo an open-air hot-spring bath in every villa. At The Hiramatsu Kashikojima only the four annex rooms have one.
Yes: Shima Kanko Hotel The Bay Suites runs the Pearl Shuttle to the Inner Shrine at Ise. From Amanemu, Cova Kakuda or The Hiramatsu Kashikojima, the shrines are a train or car ride up the coast.
Amanemu has a Kids Academy, and The Hiramatsu Kashikojima welcomes all ages, with cots and children's plates. Cova Kakuda takes no children 12 or under, and some villas at Yunoyama Sosuikyo take none under junior-high age.
By Kintetsu limited express to Kashikojima, about two hours from Nagoya or two and a half from Osaka-Namba. Amanemu sends a free car from the station, about 20 minutes, and The Hiramatsu Kashikojima a free pick-up if booked ahead.