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Yufuin ryokan with dinner in your room: 5 picked from 168
Approximate, at the rate on 2026-10-02. You pay in yen.
- Five Yufuin and Yunohira ryokan where dinner can be served in your room
- Kanputei gives all six rooms a private bath; ZEN is adults-only detached cottages
- Hanamura is a ten-minute walk from the station; Migimaru in Yunohira needs a car
The five
| Best for | Where to book | Score | Weeknight (per person) | Saturday |
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| Six rooms, each with a semi-open-air onsen bath — if you can’t decide | Yufuin Onsen Iyashi no Sato Kanputei Check price |
92/100 | ¥42,000 | ¥58,000 |
| Adults-only detached villas; dinner rated 5.0 on Rakuten | Yufuin ZEN Check price |
92/100 | — | ¥38,000–42,000 |
| Two minutes’ walk from Lake Kinrin, dinner rated 4.89 | Ryotei Tanokura Check price |
83/100 | ¥46,000 | — |
| 10 minutes’ walk from Yufuin station, 826 Rakuten reviews | Yufuin Onsen Kahori no Sato Hanamura Check price |
82/100 | ¥25,000–36,000 | ¥27,000–33,000 |
| Meiji-era inn on Yunohira’s stone slope; the cheapest, car only | Yunohira Onsen Migimaru Ryokan Check price |
78/100 | ¥18,000–24,000 | ¥22,000 |
Prices are the cheapest per person found on Rakuten Travel for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2026-11-07 – 2026-12-30, for 2 adults in one room (checked 2026-10-31). They move daily — the link shows live prices.
The booking links go to Agoda, which shows today’s price and lets you pay in your own currency. Its price can differ from the Rakuten Travel figures above.
Six rooms, each with a semi-open-air onsen bath
Yufuin Onsen Iyashi no Sato Kanputei
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.81/5 (272) · Agoda 9.8/10 (7) · 279 in total
- Check-in from 15:00
- Massage service listed (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- All six rooms have a semi-open-air onsen bath looking towards Mt Yufu.
- Room 4.89, facilities 4.92, dinner 4.81 on Rakuten; 4.81 across 272 reviews.
- Wi-Fi and floor heating in every room; check-out at 12:00.
- About ¥42,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday, ¥58,000 on a Saturday.
Getting there: About five minutes by car from Yufuin station; about ten minutes from the Yufuin exit of the Oita Expressway. Free parking. No pick-up is listed.
Language and payment: Whether staff speak English is not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club. The bath in your room means you never need to share; tattoo rules are not published.
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Right for: Two people who want to stay put in the room, with its own bath and dinner brought in.
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Not for: Wanting a large communal bath (none is listed), or arriving by train and needing a pick-up (none is listed).
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Worth knowing: Dinner can be in your room or in the dining area — which one depends on the plan. Last check-in is 18:00.
Score breakdown — 92/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★★ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.83 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥42,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 100% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 12:00; dinner and breakfast in the room or the dining area; a semi-open-air onsen bath in every room, looking towards Mt Yufu; Wi-Fi and floor heating in every room. |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.81 across 272 reviews (Rakuten Travel 272) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | All six rooms have a semi-open-air onsen bath, and its room score of 4.89 and facilities score of 4.92 are the highest of the 19 inns that can serve dinner in the room. |
Adults-only detached villas; dinner rated 5.0 on Rakuten
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.81/5 (71) · Agoda 9.4/10 (85) · 156 in total
- Dinner is cooked by a chef recommended by one of the Iron Chefs
- Bookings of five guests (two rooms) or more must be made by phone (Rakuten listing)
- Meat ingredients cannot be changed (Rakuten listing)
- Check-in from 15:00
Why it made the five
- Ten detached cottages over the Yufuin basin; adults only.
- Dinner 5.0, breakfast 5.0, bath 4.86 and service 4.86 on Rakuten.
- Dinner and breakfast in your room or a private room.
- About ¥38,000–42,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a Saturday; no weekday rooms came up in our search.
Getting there: About five minutes by car from JR Yufuin station, and five minutes from the Yufuin exit of the Oita Expressway. The inn asks you to search for it on Google Maps. Free parking.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, several staff understand a little English. If you pay at the inn, it is cash only. Not barrier-free — tell the inn in advance if anyone has difficulty walking. Tattoo rules are not published.
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Right for: Two adults without children who choose an inn for the food first.
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Not for: Travelling with children under junior-high age (not accepted), arriving late, or anyone who has difficulty walking.
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Worth knowing: No children under junior-high age. If you will arrive after 21:00 you cannot stay; after 19:00, call ahead. The front door is locked at 22:00 and nobody can go in or out after that. Dinner is in your room or a private room — confirm which when you book. Bathing tax of ¥250 per person is extra.
Score breakdown — 92/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★★ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.91 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★☆ | No weeknight room was free in our search window (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 91% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; dinner and breakfast in the room or a private room; ten detached cottages, adults only; a view over the Yufuin basin; several staff understand a little English; five minutes by car from JR Yufuin station. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.81 across 71 reviews (Rakuten Travel 71) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | Dinner and breakfast both score 5.0 on Rakuten, level with Tamayura among the 19 inns that can serve dinner in the room, and its bath and service scores of 4.86 are the highest of the 19. |
Two minutes’ walk from Lake Kinrin, dinner rated 4.89
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.78/5 (110) · Agoda 9.4/10 (1,158) · 1,268 in total
- Describes itself as a quiet inn
- Check-in from 15:00; call if you will arrive after 18:00
- Asks for the sex of adult guests when you book, to prepare amenities (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Two minutes on foot from Lake Kinrin.
- Dinner 4.89, breakfast 4.78, service 4.8 on Rakuten; 4.78 across 110 reviews.
- A large bath and an open-air bath; Oita wagyu at dinner.
- About ¥46,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday.
Getting there: About five minutes by taxi from Yufuin station; two minutes on foot from Lake Kinrin. Free parking, and you can park from the morning of your stay and after check-out while you walk around town.
Language and payment: Whether staff speak English is not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and Diners Club. The large bath is communal and nude; tattoo rules are not published, so ask first.
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Right for: Walking around Lake Kinrin and Yunotsubo by day, then a long dinner back at the inn.
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Not for: Anyone who must eat in the room (the listed dinner venues are a private room and the dining area), or staying out late (curfew 23:00).
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Worth knowing: Rakuten’s facility information lists a private room and the dining area for dinner; in-room dining comes from the inn’s description. If you want dinner in your room, check the plan or ask the inn when you book. Allergies must be notified in advance. Curfew is 23:00. With children, only some rooms can be booked. Bathing tax of ¥250 per person is extra.
Score breakdown — 83/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.74 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥46,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 110% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; in-room dining in the inn’s description, with a private room and the dining area listed as venues; two minutes on foot from Lake Kinrin; a large bath and an open-air bath; Oita wagyu; coffee after breakfast. |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.78 across 110 reviews (Rakuten Travel 110) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | An eleven-room inn two minutes from Lake Kinrin, with dinner rated 4.89; its service score of 4.8 is second only to ZEN among the 19 inns that can serve dinner in the room. |
10 minutes’ walk from Yufuin station, 826 Rakuten reviews
Yufuin Onsen Kahori no Sato Hanamura
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.68/5 (826) · Agoda 9.1/10 (289) · 1,115 in total
- Calls itself the largest inn on Yunotsubo street
- Aims to be an inn women will enjoy, by its own description
- Check-in from 15:00, last check-in 20:00 (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Ten minutes on foot from JR Yufuin station; a minute from the centre of the shopping streets.
- Phone from Yufuin station or the bus centre and the inn will collect you.
- A large bath, an open-air bath and a sauna.
- About ¥25,000–36,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday, ¥27,000–33,000 on a Saturday.
Getting there: Ten minutes on foot from JR Yufuin station; about ten minutes from the Yufuin exit of the Oita Expressway. If you want a pick-up, phone the inn when you reach Yufuin station or the bus centre. Twenty free parking spaces.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, several staff understand a little English. Rakuten lists Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club and others. Non-smoking throughout. The large bath is communal and nude; tattoo rules are not published, so ask first.
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Right for: Coming by train or bus and wanting both the town on foot and dinner in your room.
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Not for: Looking for a quiet cottage in the hills, or travelling with children and wanting a room with beds.
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Worth knowing: Dinner can be in your room or in the restaurant — which one depends on the plan. Children cannot stay in the tatami twin-bed rooms or the Western twin rooms. Call if you will check in after 18:00. Check-out is 10:00.
Score breakdown — 82/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.63 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥25,000–36,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 61% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Phone on arrival at Yufuin station or the bus centre and the inn collects you; dinner and breakfast in the room or the restaurant; ten minutes on foot from JR Yufuin station; a minute from the centre of the shopping streets; large bath, open-air bath and sauna; several staff understand a little English; morning coffee. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.68 across 826 reviews (Rakuten Travel 826) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | A 29-room ryokan you can walk to from the station, and its 826 Rakuten reviews are the most of the 19 inns that can serve dinner in the room. |
Meiji-era inn on Yunohira’s stone slope; the cheapest, car only
Yunohira Onsen Migimaru Ryokan
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.56/5 (176)
- Twelve rooms
- Check-in from 15:00, last check-in 17:30 (Rakuten listing)
Why it made the five
- Meals served in your room; the detached annex has its own private dining room.
- An open-air bath and a family bath; dinner and breakfast 4.67 on Rakuten.
- About ¥18,000–24,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday, ¥22,000 on a Saturday — the cheapest of the five.
- No transfer, and the inn asks guests not to come by public transport.
Getting there: Rakuten lists no directions. The inn currently runs no transfer and asks guests not to come by public transport, so ask the inn how to get there. Twenty free parking spaces.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, several staff understand a little English. Rakuten lists Visa, Mastercard, JCB and American Express. The family bath lets your party bathe without strangers; tattoo rules are not published.
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Right for: Adults with a car who want a quiet night in Yunohira, away from central Yufuin, at an inn that serves meals in the room.
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Not for: Travelling with children (not accepted because of the building), or by train or bus (no transfer).
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Worth knowing: Children cannot stay because of the way the building is constructed. The inn runs no transfer at present and asks guests not to come by public transport. Rakuten lists no directions, so ask the inn how to get there. Call if you will be later than your stated check-in time. Bathing tax of ¥250 per person is extra.
Score breakdown — 78/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.61 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥18,000–24,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 43% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Meals in the room (the detached annex has its own private dining room); a Meiji-era inn on Yunohira’s stone-paved slope; an open-air bath and a family bath; several staff understand a little English. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.56 across 176 reviews (Rakuten Travel 176) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | A Meiji-era inn on Yunohira’s stone-paved slope that states plainly in its description that meals are served in the room (the annex in its own private dining room). |
Know before you book
- Heyashoku means the staff carry each course of dinner to your room and set it out on the low table; when you have finished they clear it, and the futons are laid out later. It is the most private way to eat at a ryokan, and the one most often reserved for particular plans or rooms.
- Most inns here list both the room and a dining area or private room as dinner venues. Where that is the case, whether you eat in your room depends on the plan or room type — read the plan description, or ask the inn when you book.
- Yufuin station is on the JR Kyudai line; the Yufuin no Mori limited express runs from Hakata in a little over two hours. Most of the inns below are about five minutes from the station by car or taxi, and one is a ten-minute walk.
- Lake Kinrin and the Yunotsubo shopping street are the daytime walks in Yufuin. One inn here is two minutes from the lake on foot; another is a minute from the centre of the shopping street.
- Yunohira is a much smaller onsen town west of Yufuin, built along a stone-paved slope. The inn we picked there runs no transfer and asks guests not to come by public transport, so plan on driving.
- Prices here are per person with dinner and breakfast, for two sharing. Several inns add a bathing tax of ¥250 per person, paid at the inn.
How we chose: theme, conditions, scoring
How we chose
- Candidates: every property in Yufuin and Yunohira listed on Rakuten Travel — 168
- Passed the review filter (counts and averages on Rakuten Travel, the one site that lists every property in the area): 114
- Met every condition below: 19
- Kept: five, each the best at something different
Where the facts come from
- Facts: Rakuten Travel property information (in some articles, each hotel’s own site too)
- Prices: Rakuten Travel live availability, Wednesdays and Saturdays over eight weeks
- Reviews: the count and average on Rakuten Travel, as given in each hotel’s Trust row. Agoda’s reviews are shown under each hotel name for reference only and do not count towards the score
Conditions (all of them, not most of them)
- An onsen inn in Rakuten Travel’s Yufuin and Yunohira district of Oita
- At least 30 reviews on Rakuten Travel, averaging 4.0 or better
- Dinner can be served in your room: Rakuten’s facility information lists the room as a dinner venue, or the inn’s own description mentions in-room dining
Scoring
Five criteria, one to five stars each, weighted to one hundred points. Every star says where the number came from.
- Quality25 pts
- The average of the scores Rakuten Travel publishes for the room, the bath and the food.
- Value for money20 pts
- The cheapest rate with dinner and breakfast against the median of the inns we compared.
- Easy to stay15 pts
- Dinner in the room, a station pick-up, check-out time and anything else that makes the stay easier.
- Trust20 pts
- Review counts and averages published by Rakuten Travel.
- Only here20 pts
- What this inn has that the other 18 do not.
What we dropped
| Property | Verdict | Why |
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| Yufuin Onsen Kaede no Shoja | Runner-up (70/100) | 70 points against 78 for the fifth pick, Migimaru Ryokan. Its station pick-up and rooms with open-air baths are real draws, but at ¥39,000–44,000 per person on a weekday it costs 93% of the median against Migimaru’s 43%, a star lower on value, and Migimaru’s plainly stated in-room meals earn it a star more for what only it offers. |
| Yufuin Onsen Toshoan | Runner-up (61/100) | 61 points against 78 for the fifth pick. The Mt Yufu view from every room is its strength, but room, bath and dinner average only 4.46 and reviews 4.48, no weekday rooms came up in our search, and the Saturday rate of about ¥47,000 puts it at 114% of the median. |
| Yufuin Onsen Oyado Ichizen | Runner-up (57/100) | 57 points against 78 for the fifth pick. Its range of baths is the draw, but room, bath and dinner average only 4.37 and its 4.33 review average is the lowest of the eight, so it scores two stars for both quality and trust. |
| Oyado Tamayura | Not scored | Five cottages above the town with both meals served in the room and dinner rated 5.0, but Rakuten does not publish its room, bath and service scores, so we could not rate it on the same basis as the others. |
| Yunohira Onsen Takaoso | Outside the theme | 4.50 across 124 reviews, but in-room dining is offered in only one room, the 10.5-mat room on the ground floor; the other rooms eat in the dining area. |
| Oyado Nihon no Ashitaba | Not confirmed | 4.89 across 200 reviews and dinner rated 5.0, but the listed dinner venues are a private room and the dining area, and its description does not mention dinner in the room. |
| 54 places | Below the floor | Fewer than 30 reviews, or an average below 4.0. |
Questions visitors ask
Which one would you book?
Kanputei. It scores 92, joint top with ZEN, every one of its six rooms has a semi-open-air onsen bath, and its room score of 4.89 is the highest of the 19 inns that can serve dinner in the room. It costs about ¥42,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday, ¥58,000 on a Saturday. If the food matters most and you are travelling without children, Yufuin ZEN scores 5.0 for dinner.
Is dinner in the room guaranteed?
Not at most of them. Kanputei, Hanamura and the runner-ups list both the room and a dining area or restaurant, so the plan decides. Yufuin ZEN serves meals in your room or a private room — confirm which when you book. At Tanokura, in-room dining is in the inn’s description but the listed venues are a private room and the dining area, so ask. Migimaru Ryokan states that meals are served in your room, with the detached annex using its own private dining room.
Which is the cheapest?
Migimaru Ryokan in Yunohira: about ¥18,000–24,000 per person with dinner and breakfast on a weekday, ¥22,000 on a Saturday. Hanamura, near Yufuin station, is next at about ¥25,000–36,000 on a weekday. Migimaru runs no transfer and asks guests not to come by public transport, so it suits you only if you are driving.
I don’t have a car. Which of these work?
Hanamura is ten minutes on foot from JR Yufuin station, and will collect you if you phone from the station or the bus centre. Kanputei and Yufuin ZEN are about five minutes by car from the station, and Tanokura about five minutes by taxi. Migimaru Ryokan asks guests not to come by public transport, so it is not one for a train trip.
Can I bring children?
Not to Yufuin ZEN, which takes no children under junior-high age, or to Migimaru Ryokan, which does not accept children because of its building. At Tanokura only some rooms can be booked with children, and at Hanamura children cannot stay in the tatami twin-bed or Western twin rooms. Kanputei publishes no rule on children, so ask.
How much do these cost, and when were prices checked?
On 31 October 2026 we searched Rakuten Travel availability for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 7 November and 30 December 2026, taking the cheapest plan with dinner and breakfast and showing it per person for two sharing. Weekdays ran from about ¥18,000 (Migimaru Ryokan) to ¥46,000 (Tanokura). No weekday rooms came up for Yufuin ZEN and no Saturday rooms for Tanokura. Prices change daily, so check the link before you book.
Changes
- 2026-10-31 First published. Scored from 168 candidates.