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Shuzenji and Izu-Nagaoka ryokan with a private bath: 5 picks
Approximate, at the rate on 2026-10-02. You pay in yen.
- Shuzenji onsen ryokan with a private bath or room open-air bath: five picked from 76
- Asebino gives all 18 rooms an open-air bath; Ogawaya serves kaiseki in every room
- Kameya Eian has two free private baths; Yoshiharu has five
The five
| Best for | Where to book | Score | Weeknight (per person) | Saturday |
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| Kaiseki dinner served in your room, with free station pickup — if you can’t decide | Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Fukuritei Ogawaya Check price |
93/100 | ¥21,000 | ¥22,000–32,000 |
| From about ¥19,000 with two meals, plus two free private baths | Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Kameya Eian Check price |
88/100 | ¥19,000–22,000 | ¥21,000–27,000 |
| Every room has its own open-air bath; best reviewed of 13 | Tanigawa no Yu Asebino Check price |
84/100 | ¥38,000 | ¥43,000 |
| A modernised farmhouse inn with terrace open-air bath rooms | Amagi-Yugashima Onsen Shirakabe Check price |
82/100 | ¥26,000 | ¥29,000–94,000 |
| Five private open-air baths and ten bath spots in one ryokan | Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Yumeguri no Yado Yoshiharu Check price |
82/100 | ¥18,000–30,000 | ¥26,000–56,000 |
Prices are the cheapest per person found on Rakuten Travel for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2026-10-28 – 2026-12-19, for 2 adults in one room (checked 2026-10-18). 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.
Kaiseki dinner served in your room, with free station pickup
Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Fukuritei Ogawaya
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.75/5 (902) · Agoda 8.3/10 (7) · 909 in total
- Twelve rooms; kaiseki dinner is brought to every room, not just the dearest
- Private baths opened in 2023
- Scored highest of everything we compared
Why it made the five
- Kaiseki dinner served in every room.
- Free pick-up from Izu-Nagaoka station — call ahead.
- Two private baths (large ¥3,300, small ¥2,200, 45 minutes), booked at the front desk.
- 4.75 across 902 reviews. Pets are allowed.
Getting there: Free pick-up from Izu-Nagaoka station on the Izuhakone Railway (call ahead). By car, about 40 minutes from Numazu IC via Route 136; free parking.
Language and payment: English support and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten states that cards cannot be used at the inn: pay in cash, or by PayPay, d-barai, Merpay or au PAY. The private baths mean you never have to use the communal one.
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Right for: Wanting the classic ryokan dinner in your own room, and arriving by train.
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Not for: Paying by card at the inn — it is not accepted. The private baths cost extra.
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Worth knowing: Cards are not accepted at the inn: cash, PayPay, d-barai, Merpay or au PAY only (Rakuten).
Score breakdown — 93/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.71 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥21,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 78% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Free pick-up from Izu-Nagaoka station (call ahead); kaiseki served in every room; private baths since March 2023, ¥3,300 large or ¥2,200 small for 45 minutes, booked at the front desk; pets allowed; no cards at the inn — cash, PayPay, d-barai, Merpay or au PAY. |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.75 across 902 reviews (Rakuten Travel 902) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Kaiseki in every room and a free station pick-up, backed by 902 reviews averaging 4.75. |
From about ¥19,000 with two meals, plus two free private baths
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.71/5 (316) · Agoda 8.9/10 (26) · 342 in total
- Each private bath is on a different spring, both 100% spring water
- The owner looks after the water himself every day, per the listing
Why it made the five
- Two private baths on two different springs, 100% spring water, free.
- Weeknights from about ¥19,000 per person with dinner and breakfast.
- 4.71 across 316 reviews.
Getting there: In Izu-Nagaoka; the nearest station is Izu-Nagaoka on the Izuhakone Railway. Rakuten gives only driving directions (one minute from Izu-Nagaoka IC), so ask the inn how to get there from the station.
Language and payment: English support and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, JCB, American Express, Diners, UC and Mastercard. With free private baths you need not use the communal one.
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Right for: Keeping the cost down without giving up a bath of your own.
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Not for: Wanting dinner in your room — both meals are served in a dining hall.
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Worth knowing: Dinner and breakfast are both served in a dining hall, not in the room (Rakuten).
Score breakdown — 88/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
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| Quality | ★★★★☆ | The categories Rakuten does show (room and others) average 4.71 |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥19,000–22,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 70% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Two private baths of 100% spring water, two different springs, both free; one minute from Izu-Nagaoka IC; meals in a dining hall, not the room; bathing tax of ¥150 per person extra. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.71 across 316 reviews (Rakuten Travel 316) |
| Only here | ★★★☆☆ | Two private baths of 100% spring water at no charge, each on a different spring. |
Every room has its own open-air bath; best reviewed of 13
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.83/5 (430) · Agoda 9.7/10 (14) · 444 in total
- Eighteen rooms by a river in the woods at Yugashima
- Room, bath and food scores all in the high 4.8s
- The most expensive of the five
Why it made the five
- An open-air bath on every one of the 18 rooms.
- The inn’s own spring, free-flowing.
- 4.83 across 430 reviews — the highest of the 13.
- Meals in a private room or the dining room.
Getting there: Taxi from Shuzenji station on the Izuhakone Railway, or bus from stand 5 to the Yugashima stop, then call the inn.
Language and payment: English support and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, JCB, Mastercard, Diners and many Japanese cards. With an open-air bath on every room, the tattoo question does not come up.
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Right for: Wanting the onsen entirely to yourselves, in your own room, with the best reviews here.
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Not for: Families with small children — under primary-school age cannot stay. Not walkable from a station.
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Worth knowing: Children below primary-school age cannot stay. Bathing tax of ¥150 per person extra (Rakuten).
Score breakdown — 84/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
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| Quality | ★★★★★ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.85 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★☆☆☆☆ | ¥38,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 142% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Meals in a private room; an open-air bath on every room; the inn’s own spring, free-flowing; taxi from Shuzenji station, or bus to Yugashima and call the inn; check-in 14:30, check-out 10:30; 18 rooms. |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.83 across 430 reviews (Rakuten Travel 430) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | Every room has its own open-air bath, and its 4.83 average is the highest of the 13 that qualified. |
A modernised farmhouse inn with terrace open-air bath rooms
Amagi-Yugashima Onsen Shirakabe
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.73/5 (566) · Agoda 9.1/10 (142) · 708 in total
- An old farmhouse in the Amagi hills at Yugashima
- Some rooms have a terrace to sit out on by the open-air bath
- Meals in the dining room
Why it made the five
- An old country farmhouse, made over in Japanese-modern style.
- Rooms with an open-air bath and a bathing terrace.
- Free-flowing spring water.
- 4.73 across 566 reviews.
Getting there: About 30 minutes by bus from stand 5 at Shuzenji station to Yugashima. By car, five minutes from Tsukigase IC on the Izu-Jukan road.
Language and payment: English support and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, JCB, American Express, Diners and Mastercard. Book a room with the open-air bath if you want to avoid the communal one.
- Right for: Wanting an old Japanese house and a bath on your own room in one.
- Not for: Wanting to be near a station — it is half an hour by bus from Shuzenji.
Score breakdown — 82/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
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| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.70 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥26,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 97% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | A country farmhouse in Japanese-modern style; free-flowing spring water; rooms with an open-air bath and bathing terrace; about 30 minutes by bus 5 from Shuzenji station to Yugashima; meals in the dining room; a library and bicycles to borrow. |
| Trust | ★★★★☆ | 4.73 across 566 reviews (Rakuten Travel 566) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | An old country farmhouse made over in Japanese-modern style, with rooms that have an open-air bath and bathing terrace. |
Five private open-air baths and ten bath spots in one ryokan
Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Yumeguri no Yado Yoshiharu
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.56/5 (1,697) · Agoda 9.3/10 (167) · 1,864 in total
- Built round a Japanese garden
- Ten bathing spots, so you can go from bath to bath as a couple or a family
- Among the cheapest of the five on a weekday
Why it made the five
- Five private open-air baths; ten bathing spots in all.
- A traditional inn with a Japanese garden.
- 4.56 across 1,697 reviews.
- Ten minutes by bus from Izu-Nagaoka station.
Getting there: Ten minutes by bus from Izu-Nagaoka station on the Izuhakone Railway. By car, 25 minutes from Nagaoka-kita IC.
Language and payment: English support and tattoo rules are not published, so ask when you book. Rakuten lists Visa, JCB, American Express and Mastercard. The private baths mean you need not use the communal one.
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Right for: Wanting to try several private baths in one night.
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Not for: Anyone who finds stairs hard — it is built on a slope.
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Worth knowing: Built on a slope, with many stairs and corridors inside (Rakuten).
Score breakdown — 82/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
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| Quality | ★★★☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.57 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥18,000–30,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, dinner and breakfast) — 66% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Five private open-air baths and ten bathing spots in all; a traditional inn with a Japanese garden; ten minutes by bus from Izu-Nagaoka station; meals in a dining hall. |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.56 across 1,697 reviews (Rakuten Travel 1,697) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Five private open-air baths, and ten bathing spots in all to go round. |
Know before you book
- Mishima, on the Tokaido Shinkansen, is the way in. From there the Izuhakone Railway runs to Izu-Nagaoka in about twenty minutes and ends at Shuzenji.
- Few of these inns are a walk from a station. Shuzenji Onsen town is a short bus or taxi ride from Shuzenji station, and Yugashima, up in the Amagi hills, is about thirty minutes by bus. Check whether the inn runs a pick-up before you book.
- A private bath (kashikiri) is a bath you take by yourselves for a set time. Some are free and first come, first served; others are booked at the front desk and charged per slot. An open-air bath on your room needs no booking at all.
- Japanese inns add a bathing tax of ¥150 per adult per night, paid at the inn on top of the rate.
- Ryokan run to the dinner hour. Most want you there by 17:00–19:00 and ask you to call if you will be late, and check-out is often 10:00.
- Prices here are per person with dinner and breakfast, for two sharing. Saturdays cost noticeably more than Wednesdays.
How we chose: theme, conditions, scoring
How we chose
- Candidates: every property in Shuzenji listed on Rakuten Travel — 76
- Passed the review filter (counts and averages on Rakuten Travel, the one site that lists every property in the area): 51
- Met every condition below: 13
- 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)
- Listed by Rakuten Travel in the Izu-Nagaoka, Shuzenji and Amagi-Yugashima area, with a hot spring
- At least 50 reviews on Rakuten Travel, averaging 4.0 or better
- The cheapest rate falls between ¥10,000 and ¥40,000 per person per night
- An open-air bath in the room, or a private bath you can take by yourselves
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 dinner-and-breakfast rate against the median of the inns we compared.
- Easy to stay30 pts
- A pick-up from the station, meals in the room, a bath of your own, and check-out time.
- Trust15 pts
- Review counts and averages published by Rakuten Travel.
- Only here10 pts
- What this inn has that the other 12 do not.
What we dropped
| Property | Verdict | Why |
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| Shuzenji Onsen SORA Togetsuso Kinryu | Runner-up (80/100) | Scored 80, two points behind the fifth pick: its rate sits at 103% of the median while the cheaper picks run 66–78%, and there is no station pick-up. |
| Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Fugaku Hanabusa | Runner-up (79/100) | Scored 79. The Fuji view from every room is unique here, but its price sits right at the median and its room, bath and dinner scores average 4.65, below the five. |
| Hotel Laforet Shuzenji Sanshisuimei | Runner-up (64/100) | Scored 64, the lowest of the eight: reviews average 4.22, and a 3.94 dinner score pulls its quality down. |
| Izu-Nagaoka Onsen Sanyoso (Prince Hotels & Resorts) | Outside the theme | A perfect 5.0 across 144 reviews, with rooms that have free-flowing hot-spring baths and a registered cultural property on the grounds — but its cheapest rate starts above our ¥40,000-per-person ceiling. |
| Shuzenji Onsen Arai Ryokan | Needs checking | A nationally registered cultural property two minutes from Shuzenji’s bamboo path, 4.56 across 267 reviews. Rakuten lists a family bath but not whether it is taken privately, and no room with its own open-air bath, so we could not confirm it meets the condition. |
| Shuzenji Onsen Yagyu no Sho | Below the floor | 5.0 on Rakuten, with rooms that have an open-air bath, but only 36 reviews — under our floor of 50 — and its cheapest rate is above ¥40,000 per person. |
| Hotel Sunvalley Waraku | Outside the theme | Five private open-air baths on free-flowing spring water, 4.35 across 974 reviews, but its cheapest rate is below the ¥10,000 band this guide covers. |
Questions visitors ask
How do I get to Shuzenji or Izu-Nagaoka from Tokyo?
Take the Tokaido Shinkansen to Mishima and change to the Izuhakone Railway. Izu-Nagaoka is about twenty minutes down the line and Shuzenji is the end of it. Some Odoriko limited expresses run straight through from Tokyo to Shuzenji. From the station, most inns are a bus, a taxi or a pick-up away — Ogawaya collects you free from Izu-Nagaoka, Hotel Laforet runs a shuttle from Shuzenji, and Fugaku Hanabusa is a ten-minute walk.
Izu-Nagaoka, Shuzenji or Yugashima — what is the difference?
Izu-Nagaoka is the nearest to Mishima, an easy-going hot-spring town where some inns face Mount Fuji. Shuzenji Onsen is the old temple town a short bus ride from Shuzenji station. Yugashima is further south in the Amagi hills, about thirty minutes by bus — quieter, greener, and further from everything. Three of the five are in Izu-Nagaoka, two in Yugashima.
I am nervous about the communal bath, or I have a tattoo. Will I be able to bathe?
That is why every inn here has a bath of your own. At Asebino every room has its own open-air bath; Shirakabe has rooms with one. Kameya Eian has two free private baths, Yoshiharu five, and Ogawaya two you book at the front desk. None of the inns publishes its tattoo rule for the communal bath, so ask if you want to use it.
Will dinner be served in my room?
At Ogawaya, yes — in every room. Asebino serves meals in a private room or the dining room, and Togetsuso Kinryu, a runner-up, in your room or a private room. Kameya Eian, Yoshiharu and Shirakabe serve in a dining hall or dining room.
How much do these cost?
The table shows the cheapest price per person with dinner and breakfast, for two sharing, from Rakuten Travel’s availability search for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 28 October and 19 December 2026. Weekdays run from about ¥18,000 to ¥38,000 each; Saturdays are higher. A bathing tax of ¥150 per adult is added at the inn.
Which one would you book?
Fukuritei Ogawaya: kaiseki in your room, a free pick-up from Izu-Nagaoka station and 4.75 across 902 reviews — it scored highest of everything we compared. Bring cash or a Japanese payment app, though, as cards are not taken at the inn. If you would rather spend more for an open-air bath on your own room, Asebino has the best reviews of the 13.
Changes
- 2026-10-29 First published. Scored from 76 candidates.