Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka西村屋本館
Nishimuraya Honkan
Nishimuraya Honkan is a 29-room ryokan in the middle of the hot-spring town of Kinosaki, founded in 1854 in the Ansei era of the Edo period and run by the same family for seven generations. Rooms in the main building look over a central Japanese garden, and the 1960 Hiratakan annex is a modern sukiya work by Masaya Hirata.
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About the property
- Rooms
- 29
- Bath in the room
- Some rooms
- Dinner
- In your room
- MICHELIN Keys
- 2
- Recognition
- Relais & Châteaux member since 2016
Rooms and suites
Japanese-style Traditional Room
8 tatami · garden view · First and second floors.
Japanese-style Traditional Superior Room
10 + 6 tatami · garden view · Two rooms.
Garden View Western & Japanese Room (Wakakusa, Hagoromo)
8 + 6 tatami · garden view · Beds in the second room · cypress or Shigaraki ceramic tub · a small study.
Hatsune
8 tatami · garden view · Rock open-air bath along a veranda.
Asuka
10 tatami · private stone garden view · Stone open-air bath · at the end of a wing, like a separate cottage.
Sakura
10 tatami · stone garden on the slope view · Open-air bath · sunken kotatsu on the veranda.
Yamabuki (universal room)
9 + 6 tatami, 5-tatami dining room · garden view · Twin beds, cypress bath · step-free, suitable for wheelchairs.
Hagi
10 + 6 tatami · garden view · Opened August 2026 · twin beds, a sunken earthen-floor seating area facing the garden, and a day bed.
Katsura
8 + 5.5 tatami · garden view · Opened August 2026 · twin beds and a dining room facing the garden · ceramic tub.
Suites
Matsu
10 tatami plus side rooms · garden view · Shoin-style · cypress semi-open-air bath · sleeps up to six.
Ume
10 + 6 tatami · garden view · Opened August 2026 · twin beds, earthen-floor seating by the garden, semi-open-air bath with its own small walled garden.
Botan
10 + 8 tatami · garden view · Cypress and Towada-stone semi-open-air bath reached from the bedroom · twin beds.
Kumoi
12 + 6 tatami · garden and hillside garden, corner view · Cypress open-air bath, king bed · stairs.
Honjin
15 + 6 tatami plus 8-tatami dining room, 124 sq m · Kinosaki hills view · Largest room, converted from a banquet hall · cypress open-air bath facing a hillside garden · third floor, stairs.
Ginsen (Hiratakan)
12 + 7.5 tatami · maple garden view · Bed · cypress semi-open-air bath.
Horai (Hiratakan)
12 + 6 tatami plus living room · rooftops and hills view · Cypress open-air bath.
Kangetsu (Hiratakan)
16 tatami · courtyard garden view · Raised room · Shigaraki ceramic open-air bath · stairs.
Dining and wellness
A grilled dish of the Tajima kaiseki
Matsuba crab, the winter courses
The autumn kaiseki set in a room above the garden
Hassun and sashimi of the summer kaiseki
- In-room kaiseki
- Tajima kaiseki in the room
- Senrei dining hall
- breakfast hall · breakfast
- Wellness
- Three shared hot-spring baths, a free pass to Kinosaki's six public baths, and, for a fee, private open-air baths and massage at the sister Shogetsutei, ten minutes' walk or a free shuttle away.
Where it is
- Kinosaki Onsen station
- 15 min on foot
- Kyoto station
- 2 h 30 by train
- Osaka station
- 2 h 40 by train
- Itami Airport
- 1 h by air
Toyooka
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Tajima (Konotori) Airport, linked to Osaka Itami by about two flights a day of about an hour; most visitors come by limited express train from Osaka or Kyoto.
