Ureshino Onsen和多屋別荘 水明荘
Suimeiso at Wataya Besso
Suimeiso is the annex of Wataya Besso, a 102-room onsen ryokan founded in 1950 on a 20,000-tsubo estate on both banks of the Ureshino River in Saga, whose restaurants, spa, tea rooms and shops Suimeiso guests also use. The annex has seven sukiya-style rooms, among them Senshin, built from a relocated villa of the Saga Nabeshima domain, each with a cypress bath on the spring, its own bathhouse, and kaiseki served in the room by its own cook.
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About the property
- Rooms
- 7
- Bath in the room
- Every room
- Dinner
- In your room
- Recognition
- JAXURY Award 2026, Stay category (Kodansha), for Wataya Besso, naming Suimeiso's Hakuryu
- Owned by
- Wataya Besso Co. (株式会社和多屋別荘), the Kohara family
Rooms and suites
Naruto
12.5 tatami · river view · cypress indoor bath and rock open-air bath · 2–5 guests
Ariake
12.5 + 5 tatami · river view · cypress indoor bath and rock open-air bath · 2–5 guests
Isuzu
11 tatami · river view · cypress indoor bath and tokonoma · 2–4 guests
Nachi
10 tatami · river view · cypress indoor bath and a broad engawa · 2–4 guests
Chigusa
10 tatami · cypress indoor bath and tokonoma · reached by stairs · 2–4 guests
Suites
Senshin
174.12 sq m: 15-tatami main room, 10-tatami second room, 8-tatami Western bedroom; 872 sq m private garden · private garden view · built from a relocated villa of the Saga Nabeshima domain, with a coffered all-cypress ceiling · Emperor Showa and the Empress stayed here · cypress indoor bath and rock open-air bath on a terrace deck, and a moon-viewing deck · twin bedroom added in the partial renovation of October 2023 · reached by stairs · 2–6 guests
Hakuryu
114.51 sq m: 12-tatami room, 16-tatami bedroom, 16.5-tatami moon-viewing deck · river view · renovated November 2019 · a stair down from the tatami room to the bedroom, a cypress indoor bath and an open-air bath lit from above · 2–4 guests
Dining and wellness
Saga beef at Suimeiso, on Arita porcelain from G Kobo
Otsukuri of Ariake Sea and Genkai Sea fish, Suimeiso dinner
Saga beef on Arita ware, the Suimeiso special kaiseki
Breakfast served in the room at Suimeiso
- Suimeiso in-room kaiseki
- kaiseki in the room
- Tea Salon TSUBAKI
- night tea room · 8pm–12.30am, last orders midnight, closed Tue
- Wellness
- The Shinsho bathhouse (cypress and stone indoor baths, open-air bath, cold plunge; its sauna closed for now), the cypress bath in every room, and the moon-viewing deck on the Ureshino River.
Where it is
- Ureshino bus centre
- 10 min on foot
- Hakata station
- 1 h 40 by train
- Nagasaki Airport
- 40 min by car
- Saga Airport
- 1 h by taxi
738 Shimojuku-otsu, Ureshino-machi, Ureshino
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Suimeiso at Wataya Besso takes some bookings only by telephone. 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.
Nagasaki Airport, about 40 minutes by car; Fukuoka Airport about 1 hour 15 minutes; Saga Airport about 1 hour by shared taxi.
