Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki旅館くらしき

Ryokan Kurashiki

Ryokan Kurashiki opened in 1957 in a sugar wholesaler's house and its rice, sugar and tool storehouses, some about 280 to 300 years old, on the willow-lined Kurashiki River in the middle of the Bikan Historical Quarter. Five of its eight rooms, the restaurant and the private bath were redone in a renovation that closed the inn in 2024 until 9 August that year. Each room is in a different old building, most with a tatami room and a Western bedroom, and kaiseki of Setouchi fish is served in a restaurant looking onto an Edo-period garden; two townhouses on Honmachi street are let whole as the Residence.

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About the property

Rooms: 10
Bath in the room: Every room
Dinner: Private dining room
Recognition: Listed in the MICHELIN Guide hotel selection; member of The Ryokan Collection; JAXURY Award 2026, STAY category (Kodansha)

Rooms and suites

Yu-no-ma (Standard room)
33.3 sq m; 10.5 tatami · Nakabashi bridge over the Kurashiki River; the Yozen garden from the bath view · For one or two · the only room with futons on tatami instead of beds, suggested for couples · koyamaki bath · second floor of the sugar wholesaler's house, over 170 years old.
Nishi-no-ma (Deluxe suite)
46.7 sq m; 8-tatami room and bedroom · the Bikan quarter and the lit-up Kurashikikan building across the river at night view · For up to four · second floor of the sugar wholesaler's house, with exposed beams.
Inui-no-ma (Deluxe suite)
63.1 sq m; 12-tatami room and bedroom · the Bikan quarter from the tatami room; the Yozen garden from the bedroom and bath view · For up to four · upper floor of a sugar storehouse about 170 years old, with heavy ridge beams.
Higashi-no-ma (Standard suite)
61.6 sq m · courtyard garden from the study corner and bath view · For up to four · a rice storehouse about 280 years old with high ceilings · wooden-floored room, 8-tatami room, study corner and bedroom. Renovated 2024.
Matsu-no-ma (Standard suite)
64.4 sq m · two courtyard gardens view · For up to four · laid out deep like a townhouse, with a built-in sofa, 4.5-tatami room and bedroom. Renovated 2024.
Kura-no-ma (Standard suite)
64.9 sq m · courtyard garden view · For one or two · maisonette in the oldest building, a tool storehouse over 300 years old · sunken kotatsu in the 6-tatami room, koyamaki bath, king bed upstairs. Renovated 2024.

Suites

Tatsumi-no-ma (Deluxe suite)
72.8 sq m · over the ryokan's tile roofs to Achi Shrine on Mount Tsurugata view · For up to four · a rice storehouse about 280 years old, the room favoured by Shiko Munakata and Ryotaro Shiba · 6-tatami room, sofa corner and bedroom. Renovated 2024.
Okuzashiki (Luxury suite)
81.5 sq m · a courtyard garden through a full-width window view · For up to four · the largest room, reached by a path like a separate annex · earth-floored entrance with a kitchen, 8-tatami room, bedroom, koyamaki bath and shower room. Renovated 2024.
Residence Omoya
80.6 sq m · inner courtyard view · A whole townhouse over 100 years old on Honmachi street, one party a night, for up to four · maisonette with a high-ceilinged living room, kitchen, tatami room, bedroom with two double beds, deck, washer-dryer and koyamaki bath.
Residence Hanare
37.1 sq m · small garden from the bath view · Behind Omoya, set back from the street, for one or two · kitchen, king bed, washer-dryer and koyamaki bath.

Dining and wellness

Autumn hassun, served in a hollowed squash
Spring courses of the Setouchi kaiseki
The restaurant, facing the Yozen garden
The Japanese breakfast

Restaurant (レストラン): kaiseki restaurant · lunch and dinner · lunch closed Tue and Wed, dinner closed Mon and Tue
Kurashiki Coffeekan (珈琲館): coffee house · next door
Wellness: No spa, gym or hot spring: one private reservable semi-open-air bath with an Aji granite tub, and a bath in every room.

Where it is

Kurashiki station: 15 min on foot
Okayama station: 12 min by train
Okayama Airport: 45 min by bus

4-1 Honmachi, Kurashiki

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Q&A

Ryokan Kurashiki releases its rooms on set dates, months ahead. Tell us your dates and our team in Japan books it for you, at the inn’s own rate. We ask for the room we would choose and look after everything else with the inn on your behalf: your preferences and requests, any special arrangement, from a celebration to a car from the station, and whatever you need before and during your stay. The price and cancellation terms are confirmed with you first.

Okayama Airport (OKJ): about 45 minutes by airport bus to JR Kurashiki station, then 15 minutes on foot.