Ryokans

Kita kaiseki and its own spring, pumped from 1,000 m down

Adults-only suites on Lake Akan's south shore

Twenty-five suites, each bath facing Lake Shikotsu

Jazz on JBL Paragons by a fire, beside the Momiji falls

All in lake white, with a waterfall corridor

A 350-year-old headman's house and a Taisho school, moved

Kengo Kuma's bamboo screens in a Taisho inn, eight rooms

On the site of the Tamozawa Imperial Villa's 1914 annexe

Eighteen generations over Yamashiro's original spring

Sixteen rooms on a temple hill, facing a forest garden

Rebuilt by Tetsuo Kobori, every room on its own courtyard

Snow-country preserved foods in a 150-year-old farmhouse

Four suites in a Kanazawa ryotei of 1965, with its kappo

Ten tea-pavilion rooms in its own forest above a gorge

Habuka's curving corridor, Mount Tanigawa from every room

Five rooms, rebuilt after the 1939 house burned in 2021

Alone at the end of a valley road, 1,050 m up since 1931

Gassho-zukuri and Hida farmhouses in a forest on the Miya

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

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

Sixteen rooms in a garden of 209 cherry trees

The Kan'in imperial summer villa, an inn since 1948

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

Terrace baths down the side of the Hayakawa gorge

Nine rooms round a grove of 8,000 bamboo, for adults

Its own golden spring, across a suspension bridge

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

A Noh stage over the pond, one family's inn since 1484

Forty-two suites looking due west at Fuji's summit

Where Kawabata wrote, at the meeting of two Amagi rivers

Atami spring No. 47, the house's own, in every bath

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

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

Hinoki baths by the canal at Nanzen-ji, next to Murin-an

Eight rooms, each with its garden, in an 1873 sukiya house

Edo-period rooms, Sanchi Ogawa's stained-glass baths

By its own boat up the Oi river to a 17th-century villa

Seven hinoki baths open to an Ogawa Jihei garden

A mountain temple's 1892 lodging, cooking gathered plants

A house inside Ninna-ji, the temple yours from dusk to dawn

Tea gatherings in two tea rooms; matcha on the 7th and 17th

One family's inn for 300 years, a Junzo Yoshimura wing

Kengo Kuma's storehouse style behind Ukimido in Nara Park

Five houses in the Kasugayama Primeval Forest

Masaya Hirata's 1960 sukiya annex, seven generations on

Garden pavilions on a pond, looking across to Miyajima

The Horiuchi merchants' 1876 estate, bathhouse opposite

Walnut and tatami rooms, each bath a different shape

Eleven suites with open-air baths, art in the Naoshima hills

An Edo sugar merchant's house and storehouses on the canal

Eleven cottages in a 1921 villa's woods on Lake Kinrin

Inside the Takeo lord's 1845 garden below Mount Mifune

Thatched farmhouses; Japan's first room with its own onsen

A Showa stone rice warehouse, rebuilt stone by stone

Sukiya houses by Kyoto temple carpenters in Unzen's hills

Cottages in a coppice wood, once a Zen temple's rest house

Its own golden 69.2°C spring on every sunset terrace

Twelve old farmhouses, moved and rebuilt in the woods

Seven sukiya rooms, one a Nabeshima-domain villa

Bamboo-grove villas, all 30 baths straight from the source