Yudanaka Onsen · Shibu Onsenkyo · Yamada Onsen × Flower-Viewing AccommodationRecommended Hotel·Ryokan for solo travelers

A refined sukiya-style retreat nestled along a lush, verdant gorge. All buildings, including the guest rooms, face the Matsukawa Gorge—spring and summer bring fresh greenery to this “Accommodation in the gorge.” In autumn, it becomes a “healing hot spring” floating amid crimson mountains, and in winter, a “moment of tranquility” wrapped in white. This Accommodation offers breathtaking views throughout the year, in every season. Please take your time enjoying our signature oil fondue in a private dining room.

The Japanese garden with only 6 properties offers a relaxing space illuminated by over 100 soft lamps. All guests are gifted 30 minutes of free private bath use, ensuring a private stay. Enjoy the Yudanaka Onsen, which opened approximately 1350 years ago. Meals feature colorful kaiseki cuisine centered on seasonal ingredients from Shinshu, with Shinshu brand beef raised on apples as the main dish.

The entire lobby floor was fully renovated on August 1, 2018! Aburaya Tosen is a hot-spring inn where the warmth of the waters soothes the body, heartfelt hospitality welcomes you, and flowing water reflecting the mountains of Shinshu invites you to relax through the changing seasons—lighting a gentle flame in your heart and warming all five senses. Long ago, rapeseed was pressed here and oil was carried from this place, where people gathered around lantern light in peaceful companionship. With time, a bathhouse was built to warm days of therapeutic bathing, and today this inn has expanded the pleasures of hot-spring touring for travelers. Aburaya Tosen is a place to slow down, linger unhurriedly, and stay awhile.

A new encounter, a single story. Kanbayashi Hotel Senjukaku. The story began with an encounter. It was in 1929 (Showa 4) when the first president of Nagano Electric Railway, Tohei Kozu, met Lieutenant Helseth from Norway. This meeting in Kanbayashi brought together European and Japanese cultures, creating an entirely new culture or space. It was a groundbreaking event where the culture of a Western-style Hotel was incorporated into a traditional Japanese-style Ryokan for the first time. Furthermore, this encounter became the prologue to the development of Kanbayashi Onsen and Shiga Kogen, now renowned as one of Japan's leading international resorts.

Surrounded by the lush greenery of Matsukawa Valley, cherished by many literary figures, Yamada Onsen, known as the "inner parlor of Zenkoji-daira," continues to convey the classic and charming atmosphere of onsen through Yamada-kan, a property with over 210 years of history.