Ryokan, Kinosaki Onsen

Nishimuraya Honkan

Name: Nishimuraya Honkan
Address: Kinosaki Onsen, Kansai, JP

Nishimuraya Honkan is the historic wooden ryokan of Kinosaki Onsen, the willow-lined onsen town on the Sea of Japan coast of Hyogo, kept by the same family for seven generations.

The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, The Autumn Leaves Tour of Japan and two journeys of The Private Collection stay here. From $19,500 per person, twin share.

The tours that stay here

the room

The rooms

The rooms are Japanese in the old manner: tatami, lacquered tables, alcoves with a scroll and a single flower, and wide verandas onto the garden. Some carry a bath of their own in fragrant cypress, by a window onto the trees.

A tatami room with a lacquered table and low chairs, the shoji open to a veranda and the green of the garden — A tatami room on the garden

A room lit from within at dusk, its veranda and chairs open onto a small garden of stones and maples — A room on its own courtyard garden

to unwind

The onsen

The ryokan has onsen of its own, among them a round bath set in rock under the trees of its garden. Beyond its door are the seven public bathhouses: one beside a waterfall, one in a cave of rock, one where the town's story says a stork showed the first bathers the spring.

the table

Dining

Dinner is a kaiseki of the Sea of Japan and the Tajima hills, Tajima beef among it; on our tours dinner is at the ryokan.

Kinosaki Onsen35.63° N, 134.81° E

the setting

Kinosaki Onsen

Kinosaki is a small town of willows, stone bridges and wooden inns along a canal, where the street is the corridor between onsen. Nishimuraya stands on its main street, a few minutes from the first of the seven bathhouses.

The willow-lined canal and its stone bridges run past the door, the town's seven public onsen stand in their own gardens along it, and a ropeway climbs to the temple of Onsen-ji above the town.

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Two tatami rooms opened into one, a dining table set with low chairs, the garden through the windows — Rooms opened into one

A tatami room, the scroll in its alcove
A room in lamplight

our tours here

The tours that stay at Nishimuraya Honkan

A tatami room with a lacquered table, the shoji drawn back to a window onto the trees — A quiet room on the trees

questions

Questions about Nishimuraya Honkan

Where is Nishimuraya Honkan?

In Kinosaki Onsen, in the north of Hyogo on the Sea of Japan coast, about two and a half hours by limited express from Kyoto or Osaka.

Which of your tours stay at Nishimuraya Honkan?

The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, The Autumn Leaves Tour of Japan and two journeys of The Private Collection stay here.

Does Nishimuraya Honkan have its own onsen?

Yes, the ryokan has onsen of its own, and guests also walk the town's seven public bathhouses in yukata, a few minutes from the door.

Can Nishimuraya Honkan be part of a private journey?

Yes. Beyond the tours that stay here, a Custom Tour of Japan can include Nishimuraya Honkan on dates of your own, created around your party alone. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.

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