3-Star Hotels in Hakone

Hotel Hakone Suimeisou is a perfect blend of old tradition and modern Japan. This hotel provides an excellent experience of Japanese hospitality. It is in the most convenient location and serves as a take-off point to the rest of the Hakone region. The Hakone Yumoto Station is only a few minutes walk and there are so many places to eat and shop within the area. The hotel is designed as a traditional Ryokan inn and provides traditional Japanese hospitality with rooms that are clean and well-designed. Make sure to experience the full service by availing of the breakfast and dinner service in your rooms. There are bountiful seafood dishes that are provided for each meal. Take advantage as well of the onsen (natural hot spring) facilities. There are touches of modern amenities in the hotel to make you feel comfortable. I commend the staff for their excellent service and will definitely come back in the future.

This hotels location is fantastic located opposite Gora station and the funicular up the mountain. There are some restaurants near it but take note during winter, most close by 5pm or earlier so you have to make reservations at hotel for dinner or you have to buy from Lawson or 711 at the main towns like hakone yumoto or wherever you are before you return. The room we got was the quad room and the kids enjoyed the bunk beds. The single beds were very low on the floor below the bunks so for oldies this hotel may not be very suitable. Bfast came with my room rate and it was rather delicious of salad , free flow bread and this lovely jar of mash potato, braised beef or pork, with a poached egg in a tomato based sauce. Yummy to me. Free flow coffee and tea, 2 or 3 yogurts.. Cleaning is purely clearing the rubbish and replacing toiletries. Most people stay 2 to 3 nights tops so this is sufficient. Overall this is a nice convenient hotel , our 1 and only negative feedback is the stoic attitude of the staff. We got there early at about 11am and there was nobody ar the front desk. I called the number on the poster but nobody picked up. I tried 4 times and nothing. So happen we saw someone along the corridor and called out for help. She came over and confirmed our booking and told us 3pm check in. Now she wasn't rude or anything but very stoic straight faced, no smile which i realise seem to be very common amongst quite a few of the staff here. The only person who smiled at us was the recption lady when we returned at 5pm to check in. Everyone else had this flat unfeeling look. We were also told that we were entitled to 1000yen of whatever snacks or drinks if we didn't use the cleaning service each day and when we asked about it, the lady checking us out gave the impression that she was very unhappy about this. I wont say that the hotel is bad and i will still recommend this place for those wishing to go just witu a caveat of stoic looking staff.

Due to the small number of guest rooms, we were able to use the facility as if it were reserved for us. There is also billiards, so you can enjoy playing after taking a bath, and there are massage chairs, so you can relax. In addition, we will pick you up from Ohiradai station / bus stop, so access is very good. (Although it is a little far from the hot spring village) It was very well cleaned and I was able to spend a comfortable time, but unfortunately the shoji screens in the room where I stayed were torn in several places and the closet had stains, so I gave it a cleanliness level of 4. I'll enjoy having this.

This was my first experience at a ryokan. I am so glad that my sister booked a traditional ryokan with a private Kaiseki dinner and breakfast. We also had our own onsen in the room. It was so very relaxing and beautiful. The whole experience put me back into the days of old Japan. I would love to stay here again! The staff does not speak much English but they do use a translator tool that makes it easy to converse and understand. The food was amazing! The sleep was amazing. The room was spacious and accommodated 4 adults. The onsen was so relaxing. The lobby and ryokan is gorgeous and well upkept! We did stay in a newly renovated room-Zuisan. They are very accommodating to your every need. I truly felt like I was in Old Japan. I want to go back again soon. (note: I will update with photos later as there are so many)

My wife and I stayed at the ryokan as part of our tour of Japan. Having experienced ultra modern hotels in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Kyoto, we were keen to sample a traditional Japanese inn. We had a suite of rooms with a private onsen and rockery type garden, which was lovely. Despite being very old (I understand the current building is 100 years old), the suite had modern facilities such as air conditioning, a washlet toilet, sink and shower (as part of the onsen). It also had a mini bar. A drinks list is provided with dinner and the prices seemed reasonable. The set-up is very traditional and in stark contrast to the modern hotels, the staff did not speak much English. They do not help with luggage forwarding (the other hotels were very helpful with Yamato paperwork!) Therefore if you are staying here for a night or two as part of a tour, consider taking an overnight bag and forward your luggage from the hotel you are at beforehand to the hotel you’ll ultimately be staying at, or make sure you book Shinkansen seats with luggage space. We had to take a trip back to Odawara station where a helpful JR rep changed our seat bookings for the onward trip, but this took up time we could have spent exploring the area. The downsides are the hotel is old and feels old (a somewhat musty smell pervaded the place). We saw no other guests and it was very quiet. The meal arrangements are quite strict- dinners and breakfasts are served at the prescribed times on the dot but the tea arrived a few minutes early so make sure you are up and dressed in good time. We were attended by a very pleasant and hard working young lady throughout. The dinners were very elaborate and of good quality (the best miso soup we tasted during our trip). If you are used to a bowl of muesli, slice of toast or a croissant for breakfast, the large Japanese breakfast will come as a shock. Being full from the previous night’s dinners, we were unable to finish them, and some dishes were just a bit too adventurous for 8 in the morning. On the whole, a good experience for a night or two.

In Kyoritsu Resort, it is the most popular and favorite inn of my home. The lobby lounge was crowded, so I relaxed because I had coffee until check-in on a large terrace outside the lounge. From this terrace, you can see the forest tree 々 and it is designed to hear the sound of the water. Even after the next morning's bath, I came to the lounge and drank morning coffee and cold black bean tea. The coolness of the terrace outside is relieved when the hot water is up. The green leaves are still beautiful, and with the sound of water, it is really healed. When I went to a bath with a large bath, the basket in the dressing room was a locker type. The locker pattern was bamboo or bamboo, and it was dark peppermint color and white (Hawaii?), and it did not match the atmosphere of the original ancient bath at all. When I returned to the room and visited the locker with me, I said, ”it's cheap”, and I feel completely the same. I don't see such a pattern even in day trip hot water. As I said that the chair of the hot water (drinking milk) was lost, I had a rest place with a TV at the end (the opposite direction to the elevator). Also, the morning lactic acid beverage was changed to this place. The bath was in the morning of the next morning, and after a long time, I went to the rental open-air bath. It's nice to feel like a bath in the forest (just a bath). Also, when you go to another large bath, you still use a basket in the dressing room (there is a locker for the key of the room), strange tropical? I was relieved that I didn't become a locker. This is also an ancient bath. Dinner was the quietest seat in the back when I put a quiet seat and a request. The content of the meal and the person in charge were good. Only this inn has 60 minutes of alcohol at dinner in Kyoritsu Resort, which I have stayed so far. Because it is 60 minutes, this service is happy because it is not too much to drink. I like the point that I can slow because I check out at 11 o'clock.

We had the opportunity to stay in this beautiful ryokan on Dec 5-7, 2023. Our room is a Japanese-style tatami room with river view, which was calming/relaxing to see leaves moving and hear water running. Here we get to appreciate the traditional Japanese lifestyle and hospitality through its onsen and kaiseki ryori, an elaborated Japanese haute cuisine. Breakfast was also delightfully prepared in the same line of authentic Japanese artistic cuisine. However, I want to be honest here. The second kaiseki dinner/breakfast lost its charm/excitement not because it was bad food; it became an obligatory work for us to eat an array of food all served at once in the dining table. There was a feeling of rush that came upon us. Dipping in its huge onsen (温泉, hot spring) was one of the best ”only-in-Japan” experiences we ever had. The ryokan location is perfect, just a stone throw away from Yumoto station. When night falls, there's really nothing much to do in the surrounding area. Certainly a perfect gateway to do your Tozan train-cable-ropeway-cruise-bus circuit tour of Hakone.

It was nice to come after healing in nature after a long time.. I was surprised and a little disappointed that the open-air hot spring was so small. (The outdoor hot spring on the Annex side does not even have a shower facility, so you have to wash in a separate shower room) Due to the location, it was inconvenient to take a bus from Hakone Yumoto Station to a few stops (it is a difficult course to walk with a carrier..) Although it is shared, it was fortunate that the shower and toilet were clean.

The first family crest, the room is not that big, and this is 50,000 yen? I thought. I felt that there was not enough attention to detail, the temperature of the toilet seat was abnormally high and it was not checked, and the open-air bath in the room was so hot that it could not be entered without filling it with water, probably because it was flowing from the source. rice field! I didn't like walking between the room and the hallway with bare feet. The flushing of the toilet in the next room was too loud. There was a stain on the air conditioner vent in the room. The food was not that impressive. It was a special course with one dish, but the spiny lobster was grilled and hardened. Doubt the skill of the chef! Breakfast is only good for the body, and this is satisfying. Overall, I didn't think it was a 50,000 yen inn for one night. disappointing! !

The room is large and the environment is good. The accommodation fee includes dinner and breakfast. It feels good to eat. There is an independent hot spring in the room and it is comfortable to soak. In short, I am very satisfied.