Lake Kinrin, Yufuin Onsen亀の井別荘

Kamenoi Bessou

Kamenoi Bessou is a ryokan on the shore of Lake Kinrin at the foot of Mount Yufu, where eleven detached cottages and a small main building of six Western rooms stand in about 3.3 hectares of old trees and mossy garden. It began in 1921 as the villa of Kumahachi Aburaya, the man who built up Beppu as a resort, and is counted among the three great inns of Yufuin; its grounds also hold a thatched restaurant, a café and bar in a moved late-Edo sake brewery, and a shop, Kagiya.

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About the property

Rooms: 17
Bath in the room: Hot spring, every room
Dinner: In the restaurant
MICHELIN Keys: 2
Recognition: MICHELIN Guide Two Keys in the 2025 selection
Owned by: Kamenoi Bessou Co., Ltd.

Rooms and suites

Cottage No. 15
50 sq m · Garden view · Japanese room with an indoor hot-spring bath · for one to four.
Cottages No. 1 and No. 16
70 sq m · Garden view · Japanese rooms with open-air hot-spring baths.
Cottage No. 8
75 sq m · Garden view · Japanese room with an open-air hot-spring bath.
Cottage No. 2
80 sq m · Garden view · Japanese room with an open-air hot-spring bath.
Cottages No. 3 and No. 11
85 sq m · Garden view · Japanese-Western rooms with indoor hot-spring baths.
Cottage No. 5
80 sq m · Cedar garden view · Renewed March 2024 as a Western-style cottage: 12-mat living room, twin bedroom, terrace, walk-in closet, open-air and indoor hot-spring baths · meals at a table in the room.
Cottage No. 17
90 sq m · Garden view · Japanese-Western room with an open-air bath · stairs inside.
Main building twin rooms (Enrin, Fumoto, Sankage, Sanso, Suien)
40 to 45 sq m · Hotel-style twin rooms up a flight of stairs on the first floor, each with an indoor hot-spring bath · meals in the restaurant Keikaen · no children of primary-school age or younger.
Okuyufu (main building)
60 sq m · Western twin room with an open-air hot-spring bath, for up to three · up a flight of stairs.

Suites

Cottage No. 7
140 sq m · Private garden view · Rebuilt in October 2024 from two rooms into a two-bedroom special room (two twin bedrooms) around a living and dining room, furnished mainly with Nordic vintage pieces, with a new open-air hot-spring bath, an all-cypress indoor bath and a timber garden deck · meals at a table in the room.
Cottage No. 100
120 sq m · Garden view · Special room with open-air and indoor hot-spring baths, for up to six.

Dining and wellness

In-room dining (cottages): kaiseki in the cottage · breakfast and dinner
Keikaen: kaiseki restaurant · main building
Juban-kan: counter kaiseki · converted cottage · Tue–Thu from 6.30pm
Yunotake-an: thatched country restaurant · grounds, by Lake Kinrin · 11am–9pm (last order)
Tenjo Sajiki and Bar Yamaneko: café and bar · in the grounds · café 9am–5pm, bar 5pm–midnight
Wellness: A free-flowing hot-spring bath in every room, most of them open-air; no spa or gym.

Where it is

Yufuin station: 5 min by taxi
Hakata station: 2 h 10 by train
Oita Airport: 1 h by car
Fukuoka Airport: 2 h 10 by bus

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Oita Airport, about an hour by bus or an hour by car; Fukuoka Airport, about 2 hours 10 minutes by highway bus.