Yudanaka Onsen, Yamanouchi松籟荘
Shoraiso
Shoraiso is a five-room ryokan in Yudanaka Onsen, in northern Nagano about 10 minutes by car (then a 30-minute walk) from the Jigokudani snow monkeys, rebuilt in 2024 by the Yorozuya ryokan across the road after the 1939 Shoraiso building burned in 2021. It is a wooden building finished by temple carpenters, where every room has a free-flowing hot-spring bath and its own small garden, dinner is served in the room or a private dining room, and guests cross the road to bathe in Yorozuya's 1953 Momoyama Bath.
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About the property
- Rooms
- 5
- Bath in the room
- Hot spring, every room
- Dinner
- Private dining room
- MICHELIN Keys
- 1
- Recognition
- Yorozuya's Momoyama Bath, used by Shoraiso's guests, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (2003).
- Owned by
- Yorozuya Denzo Co. (株式会社萬屋傳蔵); the Yorozuya ryokan across the road is its sister inn
Rooms and suites
Kiku
95 sq m plus a 6 sq m terrace · own small garden view · Japanese suite on the ground floor: rooms of 10 and 6 tatami, a dining room, open-air hot-spring bath and tsuboniwa garden · futons for 2 to 4. Dinner in the room.
Hagi
90 sq m plus a 5 sq m terrace · own small garden view · Japanese suite on the ground floor: rooms of 10 and 6 tatami, a dining room, open-air hot-spring bath and tsuboniwa garden · futons for 2 to 4. Dinner in the room.
Nadeshiko
94 sq m plus a 5 sq m terrace · own small garden view · Japanese-Western room on the ground floor: a bedroom with two beds, a 10-tatami room, a dining room, open-air hot-spring bath and tsuboniwa garden · for 2 to 4 (futons beyond two). Dinner in the room.
Komakusa
60 sq m plus a 5 sq m terrace · own small garden view · Twin room on the first floor: bedroom, living room, open-air hot-spring bath and tsuboniwa garden · for 1 or 2. Meals in the private dining room.
Shakunage
60 sq m plus a 3 sq m terrace · own small garden view · Twin room on the first floor: bedroom, living room, open-air hot-spring bath and tsuboniwa garden · for 1 or 2. Meals in the private dining room.
Dining and wellness
Grilled wagyu and eel, a course of the kaiseki
A spread of the seasonal kaiseki
A course of the seasonal kaiseki
The boxed breakfast served in the room
- In-room dining (Kiku, Hagi, Nadeshiko)
- kaiseki in the room · breakfast and dinner
- Private dining room
- private dining room · ground floor
- Lounge Den
- lounge
- Wellness
- An open-air hot-spring bath in every room; across the road, Yorozuya's Momoyama Bath and garden open-air bath, the Shinonome Bath and the reservable Private Spa Bon with two saunas; massage in the room on request.
Where it is
- Yudanaka station
- 7 min on foot
- Tokyo station
- 2 h 30 by train
- Shinshu-Nakano interchange
- 15 min by car
3071-1 Hirao, Yamanouchi, Yudanaka Onsen
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Yorozuya's shared baths: tattoos not allowed, except a small one about the size of a palm covered with a tattoo-cover sticker. The rooms' own baths are private.
Tokyo's airports are the usual arrival, then about 2 hours 30 minutes by train from Tokyo station to Yudanaka.
