13 nights · Any season
Two weeks of ryokans: the hot springs of Izu, then Fukui and Kaga
For a client who has seen Tokyo and Kyoto: five inns in two regions and no city at all. Two old ryokans in the hot-spring valleys of Izu, a villa by the sake brewery at Eiheiji, then Awara and Yamashiro on the Kaga coast, each a short ride from the next, and home by GranClass to Tokyo.
- Nights
- 13
- Stays
- 5
- When
- Any season
Japan
We build it around you
Tell us your dates, your pace and who is travelling. We draw the route around them, choose the inns and rooms, arrange the trains and cars between each stay, and stay one point of contact from the first plan to the last night. Every stay at its own rate.
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1 · 2 nightsSanyo-soThe 1929 villa of Hisaya Iwasaki of the Mitsubishi family, in a garden by Ogawa Jihei at Izu-Nagaoka Onsen with a wing by Togo Murano, every room with its own free-flowing hot-spring bath; from Tokyo, the Shinkansen to Mishima and the Izuhakone Railway reach Izu-Nagaoka, where the inn's shuttle meets you. Ochiairo is about half an hour south by taxi.
2 · 3 nightsOchiairoA ryokan of 1874 on the Kano river at Yugashima, seven of its buildings registered cultural properties, written of by Kawabata and Shimazaki, every room with a hot-spring bath and dinner of Izu produce; leaving, the inn arranges a taxi to Mishima, about 50 minutes, and the Shinkansen to Maibara, the Shirasagi to Tsuruga and the Hokuriku Shinkansen reach Fukui in three and a half to four hours, depending on the connection.
3 · 2 nightsKanshukuen EshikotoEight villas beside ESHIKOTO, the sake grounds of the Kokuryu brewery's parent company, on the Kuzuryu river at Eiheiji, each with its own hot-spring bath, for the Zen temple of Eihei-ji and the brewery, with dinner at the counter of En or at cadre; Fukui station is about 27 minutes by car, and the Hokuriku Shinkansen is one stop on to Awara-Onsen, where the next inn's shuttle meets you.
4 · 3 nightsKofuyuden BeniyaSeventeen rooms at Awara Onsen, rebuilt to a design by Tetsuo Kobori after a fire in 2018, each with a partly open-air bath of the inn's own spring and kaiseki served in the room, with Echizen crab in winter; the inn's shuttle back to the station runs from 8:00 to 11:00, and Kaga-Onsen is the next stop on the Shinkansen.
5 · 3 nightsAraya TotoanSeventeen rooms kept by the Araya family for eighteen generations at the original spring of Yamashiro Onsen, a minute from the town's restored Meiji bathhouse, with kaiseki from Hashidate port served on Kutani porcelain and Yamanaka lacquer; the inn's shuttle reaches Kaga-Onsen station in about 10 minutes, and Komatsu airport is about 25 minutes by taxi.
6 · Day trainMaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGranClassTwo Kagayaki a day each way stop at Kaga-Onsen, about 2 hours 45 minutes to Tokyo in the 18-seat GranClass car; on the others, change at Kanazawa.
Make it yours
This is one way to do it. We change the stays, their order and the nights in each to suit you, move it to the season you want, and plan the days between: the trains and cars, the restaurants worth the detour, a quieter night where the route needs one. Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team in Japan will draw up your own.
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