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Lake Yamanaka and Oshino hotels: 5 picked from 255
Approximate, at the rate on 2026-10-02. You pay in yen.
- Lake Yamanaka hotels from a four-room inn to 15 glamping domes facing Mt Fuji
- Private sauna: every room at Shizuku, every dome at Vision Glamping
- Masu-no-Ie is a 200-year-old farmhouse by Oshino Hakkai; Le Lagon serves French dinners
The five
| Best for | Where to book | Score | Weeknight (per person) | Saturday |
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| Four rooms a night, all with a Fuji-view balcony — if you can’t decide | Yumenoki Yamanakako Check price |
98/100 | ¥12,000 | ¥14,000–15,000 |
| 200-year-old thatched farmhouse next to Oshino Hakkai | Kayabuki no Yado Masu-no-Ie Check price |
88/100 | ¥18,000 | ¥19,000 |
| Fuji-view glamping with a private open-air bath and sauna | Vision Glamping Resort Yamanakako Check price |
84/100 | ¥42,000–54,000 | ¥66,000–74,000 |
| Private sauna in every room, by the Shinjuku bus stop | Ryokan Shizuku Check price |
80/100 | ¥30,000–35,000 | ¥43,000–52,000 |
| Pension known for French dinners by a prize-winning chef | Resort Pension Le Lagon Check price |
76/100 | ¥9,000 | ¥10,000–15,000 |
Prices are the cheapest per person found on Rakuten Travel for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 2026-11-04 – 2026-12-26, for 2 adults in one room (checked 2026-10-25). 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.
Four rooms a night, all with a Fuji-view balcony
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.86/5 (166)
- Teppanyaki is cooked on the iron griddle in front of you
- A completely non-smoking house
Why it made the five
- Four groups a night; every room has a Mt Fuji-view balcony.
- Teppanyaki and Yamanashi wine for dinner, scored 4.86.
- About ¥12,000 per person on a weeknight and ¥14,000–15,000 on a Saturday, with breakfast.
- 4.86 across 166 reviews.
Getting there: About 15 minutes by car from Yamanakako IC on the Fuji Five Lakes Road, about 30 from Gotemba IC on the Tomei expressway. Highway buses run from Shinjuku, Yokohama and elsewhere; the listing does not name the stop, so ask when you book. Free parking for 8 cars.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, a few staff understand a little English, Chinese and Korean. Visa, JCB, American Express, Diners Club, Mastercard and Discover are listed, single payment only. The two baths are private family baths, so tattoos do not come up. Smokers and infants cannot stay.
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Right for: Couples who want a quiet, small inn, teppanyaki and wine, and Mt Fuji from the balcony.
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Not for: No large bath — just two private family baths. Smokers cannot stay.
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Worth knowing: Cards are single payment only. The doors close at 22:00.
Score breakdown — 98/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★★ | The categories Rakuten does show (room and others) average 4.86 |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥12,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 67% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Four groups a night, every room with a Mt Fuji-view balcony; teppanyaki and Yamanashi wine for dinner; completely non-smoking, smokers cannot stay; highway buses from Shinjuku, Yokohama and elsewhere; a few staff understand a little English, Chinese and Korean (all per Rakuten). |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.86 across 166 reviews (Rakuten Travel 166) |
| Only here | ★★★★☆ | Only four groups a night, every room with a Mt Fuji-view balcony, and teppanyaki with Yamanashi wine for dinner. |
200-year-old thatched farmhouse next to Oshino Hakkai
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.86/5 (133)
- Converted into an inn of five rooms
- Arrive from Shinjuku and walk the ponds before the day-trippers come
Why it made the five
- A 200-year-old thatched farmhouse, next to Oshino Hakkai.
- Five minutes on foot from the Oshino Hakkai highway-bus stop.
- Breakfast and dinner both 4.86; meals at the hearth room or the dining room.
- About ¥18,000 per person on a weeknight and ¥19,000 on a Saturday, with breakfast.
Getting there: Five minutes on foot from the Oshino Hakkai stop on the Chuo highway bus; about 15 minutes by bus from Fujisan station; about 15 minutes by car from Kawaguchiko IC. From Gotemba station, the listing suggests the bus towards Mt Fuji and Kawaguchiko to the Hotel Mount Fuji-mae stop, then a taxi of about ten minutes. Free parking for 20 cars.
Language and payment: Language support is not published, so ask when you book. You can pay in cash (yen), by card — Visa, JCB, American Express and Mastercard are listed — or with PayPay. Free Wi-Fi and air conditioning in every room. Tattoo rules are not published, so ask before using the bath.
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Right for: Sleeping in an old Japanese house and walking Oshino Hakkai first thing in the morning.
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Not for: Only five rooms, with no large bath or hotel-style facilities.
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Worth knowing: If you are having dinner, check in by 19:00.
Score breakdown — 88/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.69 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★☆☆ | ¥18,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 100% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | A 200-year-old thatched farmhouse next to Oshino Hakkai; five minutes on foot from the Oshino Hakkai highway-bus stop, 15 minutes by bus from Fujisan station; meals at the hearth room or the dining room; a bath overlooking the garden (artificial hot spring); free Wi-Fi and air conditioning in every room (all per Rakuten). |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.86 across 133 reviews (Rakuten Travel 133) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | You sleep in a 200-year-old thatched farmhouse right next to Oshino Hakkai. |
Fuji-view glamping with a private open-air bath and sauna
Vision Glamping Resort Yamanakako
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.82/5 (300) · Agoda 9.3/10 (220) · 520 in total
- Barbecue available as well
Why it made the five
- Fifteen rooms, all facing Mt Fuji, each with a private open-air bath and sauna.
- Breakfast and dinner in your room or the dining room.
- About ¥42,000–54,000 per person on a weeknight and ¥66,000–74,000 on a Saturday, with breakfast.
- 4.82 across 300 reviews.
Getting there: About 30 minutes by bus from Fujisan station; five minutes by car from Yamanakako IC, 15 from Kawaguchiko IC and 30 from Gotemba IC. A free shuttle runs from near the Fujisan Yamanakako bus stop and from the Fujisan station car park — ask the resort for details. Free parking for 20 cars.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, a few staff understand a little English. Visa, JCB, American Express, Diners Club, Mastercard and Discover are listed. Your bath and sauna are your own, so tattoos do not come up. There are wheelchair-accessible rooms, and pets are allowed.
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Right for: Having an open-air bath and sauna to yourselves, with Mt Fuji in front of you.
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Not for: Check-in is not until 17:00, and it is the dearest of the five.
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Worth knowing: Check-in 17:00, check-out 10:00.
Score breakdown — 84/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★★★★ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.81 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★☆☆☆☆ | ¥42,000–54,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 234% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | A shuttle bus is listed (ask the resort for details); breakfast and dinner in your room or the dining room, so you eat in private; every room faces Mt Fuji and has its own open-air bath and sauna; 30 minutes by bus from Fujisan station, five minutes by car from Yamanakako IC; a few staff understand a little English; wheelchair-accessible rooms (all per Rakuten). |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.82 across 300 reviews (Rakuten Travel 300) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | All 15 rooms face Mt Fuji, and each has its own open-air bath and sauna — glamping that is completely private. |
Private sauna in every room, by the Shinjuku bus stop
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.85/5 (526) · Agoda 9.2/10 (60) · 586 in total
- Fourteen rooms, with Mt Fuji in view
- Easiest arrival of the five without a car; location score 4.90
Why it made the five
- A private sauna in all 14 rooms.
- Five seconds on foot from the Yamanaka-kyoku-iriguchi stop of the bus from Busta Shinjuku.
- Large bath, open-air bath, sauna and cold plunge (artificial hot spring).
- About ¥30,000–35,000 per person on a weeknight, with breakfast; 4.85 across 526 reviews.
Getting there: Highway bus from Busta Shinjuku to the Yamanaka-kyoku-iriguchi stop, five seconds on foot from the door. About two hours by car from central Tokyo on the Chuo or Tomei expressway. Free parking for 25 cars.
Language and payment: Per Rakuten, a few staff understand a little English. Visa, JCB and Mastercard are listed. The sauna in your room is private; tattoo rules for the shared large bath are not published, so ask when you book. Every room is non-smoking, with no TV and no pets.
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Right for: Couples or friends coming from Shinjuku without a car who want a sauna of their own.
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Not for: The baths use artificial hot-spring water, not a natural onsen.
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Worth knowing: No children of primary-school age or younger, and no more than two guests per room. Call if you will arrive after 19:00.
Score breakdown — 80/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
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| Quality | ★★★★☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.80 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★☆☆☆☆ | ¥30,000–35,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 167% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | Check-out 11:00; five seconds on foot from the Yamanaka-kyoku-iriguchi stop of the highway bus from Busta Shinjuku; a private sauna in every room, with Mt Fuji in view; large bath, open-air bath, sauna and cold plunge (artificial hot spring); check-in 15:00 (all per Rakuten). |
| Trust | ★★★★★ | 4.85 across 526 reviews (Rakuten Travel 526) |
| Only here | ★★★★★ | All 14 rooms have their own sauna, and the highway bus from Shinjuku drops you at the door. |
Pension known for French dinners by a prize-winning chef
Reviews: Rakuten Travel 4.53/5 (382) · Agoda 7.7/10 (31) · 413 in total
- Family bath can be used privately
Why it made the five
- French dinners by a chef who was runner-up in the Prosper Montagné competition in Paris; dinner scores 4.61.
- About ¥9,000 per person on a weeknight and ¥10,000–15,000 on a Saturday, with breakfast — the cheapest of the five on both.
- A large bath and a family bath (artificial hot spring).
- 4.53 across 382 reviews.
Getting there: About five minutes by car from Yamanakako IC. The listing names Fujiyoshida station on the Fuji Kyuko line (now called Fujisan) but gives no bus or walking time, so ask how to get there if you are not driving. Free parking for 30 cars.
Language and payment: Language support is not published, so ask when you book. Credit cards are not accepted — pay in cash. Tattoo rules are not published; the family bath, which you use privately, is the simple way round it. Children below primary-school age are not accepted.
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Right for: Making dinner the main event of the trip, and keeping the cost down.
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Not for: No credit cards, and its room score of 4.16 is on the low side.
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Worth knowing: Credit cards are not accepted. If you are having dinner, check in by 17:30.
Score breakdown — 76/100
| Criterion | Stars | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Quality | ★★☆☆☆ | Room, bath and dinner average 4.43 on Rakuten Travel |
| Value for money | ★★★★★ | ¥9,000 per person on a weeknight (Rakuten, breakfast) — 50% of the median of everything we compared |
| Easy to stay | ★★★★★ | French dinners by a chef who was runner-up in the Prosper Montagné young chefs’ competition in Paris; a large bath and a family bath (artificial hot spring); about five minutes from Yamanakako IC; credit cards not accepted (all per Rakuten). |
| Trust | ★★★☆☆ | 4.53 across 382 reviews (Rakuten Travel 382) |
| Only here | ★★★☆☆ | A pension where you eat French cooking by a chef who came second in a Paris culinary competition. |
Know before you book
- No railway reaches Lake Yamanaka. The nearest station is Fujisan, on the Fuji Kyuko line (listings sometimes still call it Fujiyoshida, its old name), and local buses run from there to the lake and to Oshino.
- Highway buses from Busta Shinjuku run straight to the lake and to Oshino Hakkai, so you can get here from Tokyo without changing trains. One of the five has its bus stop right outside the door.
- Oshino Hakkai is a set of eight spring-fed ponds in Oshino village, between Lake Yamanaka and Fujiyoshida, filled with water that has filtered down from Mt Fuji. It is crowded with day-trippers by late morning; staying nearby lets you walk it early.
- Mt Fuji is clearest in winter and in the early morning. In summer cloud can hide it for a whole day, which is a good argument for staying the night rather than visiting for an afternoon.
- Several hotels here run a shuttle from the bus stop or the station, but most must be booked or phoned ahead. Small inns also set early arrival times if you are having dinner — one asks you to check in by 17:30.
- Prices here are per person with breakfast, for two sharing. The larger onsen hotels add a ¥150 bathing tax per adult, paid at the hotel.
How we chose: theme, conditions, scoring
How we chose
- Candidates: every property in Lake Yamanaka and Oshino listed on Rakuten Travel — 255
- Passed the review filter (counts and averages on Rakuten Travel, the one site that lists every property in the area): 44
- Met every condition below: 33
- 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)
- In Rakuten Travel’s Lake Yamanaka and Oshino district, Yamanashi prefecture
- At least 50 reviews on Rakuten Travel, averaging 4.0 or better
- The cheapest rate falls between ¥6,000 and ¥50,000 per person per night
Scoring
Five criteria, one to five stars each, weighted to one hundred points. Every star says where the number came from.
- Quality20 pts
- The average of the scores Rakuten Travel publishes for the room, the bath and the food.
- Value for money20 pts
- The cheapest breakfast-inclusive rate against the median of the hotels we compared.
- Easy to stay30 pts
- Minutes from the station, a bath house, and check-out time.
- Trust20 pts
- Review counts and averages published by Rakuten Travel.
- Only here10 pts
- What this hotel has that the other 32 do not.
What we dropped
| Property | Verdict | Why |
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| Wanwan Paradise Premier Yamanakako | Runner-up (74/100) | 74/100, two points behind Le Lagon. About ¥16,000–20,000 per person on a weeknight is 88% of the median, but its room, bath and dinner average of 4.39 and its 4.49 across 416 reviews earned only two stars for quality and three for trust — and it is really a hotel for dog owners. |
| Hotel Mount Fuji | Runner-up (68/100) | 68/100. Its 1,485 reviews are the most of the 33, but they average 4.36, and the room, bath and dinner average of 4.34 — two stars each for trust and quality — left it well behind the five. |
| Fuji Marriott Hotel Lake Yamanaka | Runner-up (60/100) | 60/100. About ¥24,000–30,000 per person on a weeknight is 134% of the median, which scored one star for value, and its room, bath and dinner average of 4.39 earned two for quality. |
| Step House | Outside the theme | A rental villa with a sauna, 5.0 across 210 reviews — but it serves no meals, so it cannot be compared on a breakfast-inclusive price. |
| Venticello | Could not check | 5.0 across 279 reviews, but Rakuten Travel shows no minimum rate for it, so we could not confirm the price condition. |
| Yamanakako Pension Pause | Outside the theme | 4.67 across 169 reviews, but its cheapest rate is under our ¥6,000 floor. |
| 211 hotels | Below the floor | Fewer than 50 reviews, or an average below 4.0. |
Questions visitors ask
Which one would you book?
Yumenoki Yamanakako, top of the five at 98/100: four groups a night, a Mt Fuji-view balcony on every room, teppanyaki and Yamanashi wine for dinner, and 4.86 across 166 reviews — from about ¥12,000 per person on a weeknight with breakfast. If you want to wake up beside Oshino Hakkai, Kayabuki no Yado Masu-no-Ie scores the same 4.86 and is a 200-year-old thatched farmhouse.
Can I get there without a car?
Yes. Ryokan Shizuku is five seconds from the Yamanaka-kyoku-iriguchi stop of the highway bus from Busta Shinjuku. Masu-no-Ie is five minutes on foot from the Oshino Hakkai highway-bus stop, or about 15 minutes by bus from Fujisan station. Vision Glamping is about 30 minutes by bus from Fujisan station and runs a free shuttle from near the Fujisan Yamanakako bus stop — ask for details. Yumenoki says highway buses run from Shinjuku and Yokohama but does not name the stop, so ask. Le Lagon gives car directions only. Of the runners-up, Hotel Mount Fuji collects you from its bus stop if you call ahead.
Which is the cheapest?
Resort Pension Le Lagon, from about ¥9,000 per person on a weeknight and ¥10,000–15,000 on a Saturday, with breakfast — the cheapest of the five on both. It takes no credit cards. Yumenoki is next, from about ¥12,000 on a weeknight.
Is there a natural hot spring, and can I use the baths with a tattoo?
None of the five has natural hot-spring water: Ryokan Shizuku, Masu-no-Ie, Le Lagon and Vision Glamping use artificial hot-spring water, and Yumenoki has two private family baths. Two runners-up, Hotel Mount Fuji and Fuji Marriott Hotel Lake Yamanaka, have natural hot-spring large baths. None publishes a tattoo policy, so ask when you book — or choose a bath of your own: every room at Vision Glamping has a private open-air bath and sauna, every room at Ryokan Shizuku has a private sauna, and Le Lagon has a family bath alongside its large one.
Do any of them have English-speaking staff?
Per Rakuten, a few staff understand a little English at Yumenoki (also a little Chinese and Korean), Vision Glamping and Ryokan Shizuku. At Hotel Mount Fuji, a runner-up, a few staff can handle everyday English. Masu-no-Ie and Le Lagon do not publish their language support.
When were these prices checked?
We searched Rakuten Travel availability for Wednesdays and Saturdays between 4 November and 26 December 2026, taking the cheapest room with breakfast for two adults and showing it per person (checked 25 October 2026, tax included). Hotel Mount Fuji and Fuji Marriott add a ¥150 bathing tax per adult, paid on the day. Prices move daily — the link on each hotel shows today’s.
Changes
- 2026-10-29 First published. Scored from 255 candidates.