Asama Onsen, Matsumoto松本十帖

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Two hotels made from Koyanagi, an inn recorded from 1686, at the crossing of Yuzaka and Yamanote-dori in Asama Onsen, a hot-spring town on the north-east edge of Matsumoto with views to the Northern Alps from the upper floors. Matsumoto Honbako is a book hotel stripped back to the old inn's bare concrete by Suppose Design Office, above a bookshop of about 10,000 titles; Koyanagi is a new, softer hotel for families in diatomaceous earth and solid wood with Danish furniture, and every room in both has its own open-air hot-spring bath.

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About the property

Rooms: 38
Bath in the room: Hot spring, every room
Dinner: At a counter
Owned by: Koyanagi Inc. (株式会社小柳), led by Toru Iwasa

Rooms and suites

Standard Twin with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
40 sq m · Five rooms · two beds, two easy chairs and a cypress open-air bath on the terrace · shower room separate from the bath. No TV
Designer's Twin with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
45 sq m · Eleven rooms · two beds and two built-in 'study nook' bunks for reading that serve as extra beds, up to four guests · desk
Yuzaka Twin with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
40 sq m · Yuzaka street view · Three corner rooms with windows and terraces on two sides, a cypress bath on one · small washroom
Small Garden Twin with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
36 sq m · Compact, grey-walled and dimly lit, with a work table and no living space · no extra bed
Garden Twin with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
49 sq m · garden and old storehouse view · Tatami floor, two beds, work table, Hans J. Wegner easy chair · kids-welcome versions take a cot
Large Garden Twin with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
49 sq m · south over the garden view · Tatami floor, beds pushed together to 240 cm for co-sleeping, extra bed possible, two NyChairs
Comfort Twin with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
45 sq m · Tatami or wood floor with Bruno Mathsson, Kai Kristiansen or Kristian Vedel chairs · baby-welcome versions come with a cot
Comfort Double with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
32 sq m · One 160 cm bed · wheelchair-accessible
Universal Two Rooms with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
76 sq m · no view (old houses behind paper screens) view · Barrier-free: two twin rooms, one with an electric height-adjustable bed, and a ceiling rail lift into the open-air bath on request · up to five guests

Suites

Grand Suite with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
125 sq m · Northern Alps view · Top-floor corner suite made from three of the old inn's rooms · the largest tub in the property, seating two · Japanese-style room takes two futons, up to four guests
Terrace Suite with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
106 sq m · Northern Alps view · Third-floor corner suite with an outdoor living terrace · smaller bathroom and a standard-size open-air bath
Panorama Suite with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
81 sq m · Northern Alps view · Fourth-floor corner suite with kitchenette and large desk · standard-size open-air bath
Corner Suite with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
80 sq m · garden and storehouse view · Shoji light, generous bathroom and bath, and a tea-room-like Japanese room that closes off for meditation
Junior Suite with Open-Air Bath (Matsumoto Honbako)
73 sq m · garden trees and roofs view · At the end of the second-floor corridor · rather dark · a spacious open-air bath · Japanese-style room takes futons for up to four
Terrace Suite with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
110 sq m · The seventh-floor former imperial guest room: bedroom, Japanese-style room and wooden deck, Finn Juhl furniture · up to six guests
One-Room Terrace Suite with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
70 sq m · open view from the sixth floor view · Open-plan in black walnut and diatomaceous earth with a long desk and wooden deck
Junior Suite with Open-Air Bath (Koyanagi)
68 sq m · Tatami bedroom, carpeted second living room and a reading nook entered through a tea-house crawl door · one of only two rooms on the sixth floor

Dining and wellness

Meat roasting over the wood fire at 367
A course at 367 with a glass of the house cider
367, round the wood-fire grill and counter
A cast-iron pot dish from the Shinshu Italian course at Alps Table

367 (Sanrokunana): wood-fired grill restaurant · ground floor, Matsumoto Honbako · breakfast and dinner · dinner 5.15pm or 7.45pm
Alps Table: Italian family restaurant · ground floor, Koyanagi · dinner · dinner 5pm or 7pm
Honbako Bar: bar · by the front desk · until 11pm
Oyaki & Coffee; Philosophy & Sweets: two cafés · in the town
Wellness: An open-air hot-spring bath in every room and the small courtyard bath house Koyanagi no Yu; no spa in operation (Honbako's spa is suspended), no large bath and no gym.

Where it is

Matsumoto station: 30 min by bus
Matsumoto station: 20 min by taxi
Ueda station: 50 min by taxi
Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport: 50 min by bus

3-15-17 Asama Onsen, Matsumoto

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Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport (flights from Osaka Itami, Kobe, Fukuoka and Sapporo): airport shuttle 30 minutes to Matsumoto Bus Terminal, then about 20 minutes by taxi or 30 minutes by bus. From Tokyo, Ueda station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen is about 1 hour 40 minutes from Tokyo station, then 50 minutes by fixed-fare taxi.