Hama No Yu — Hotel in Higashiizu

This is a relatively large, deluxe contemporary “onsen ryokan” providing a luxurious night away for Tokyo families. It resembles a tower hotel, but the experience is different. When you arrive, you hand off your luggage (travel light—just what you need for a night or two) and sit down in the lounge for refreshments. Sooner or later, a staff member comes by and checks you, sorting any remaining details. Then you’re taken to your room and your luggage is delivered. The rooms have a foyer, showers (no tub), a large tatami room, a small sunken lounge area, and then a private balcony with hammock, chairs and table. The tatami room will be set up for dinner on the floor (later to be cleared away for sleeping futons). You leave your shoes in the foyer. Until dinner, you can relax, excurse, or head to the top floor onsen. Robes are supplied. Four or five lovely private baths are available (first come first serve) and two large same-sex baths (these latter have the views). Whichever you choose, you strip down, thoroughly clean yourself at the provided stations, then soak in the pools as long as you like. Then you dry yourself off with the supplied towels, leave the towels in the bins, and return to your room.||Whether you opt for dinner or breakfast (or both) in your room: brace yourself for an enormous, extraordinary spread. It’s too much food, but it is also really excellent, and spectacularly presented. Some of the items will challenge you. When we were there, abalone was heavily featured, including cooked table side, in its shell with sake. DELICIOUS. Also expect quite a bit of good sashimi and a very large number of small delicacies. It’s over the top. Take your time and enjoy it.||They don’t get a lot of English-speaking clientele, but they handled it well enough. The service here is very high level.||The one minor problem we had was that our particular room had a little bit of a wind tunnel effect, but we were there during a typhoon and the other couple next door had no such complaints.||Not cheap, but by no means the most expensive option around, and a pretty good value once you factor in...

This is a relatively large, deluxe contemporary “onsen ryokan” providing a luxurious night away for Tokyo families. It resembles a tower hotel, but the experience is different. When you arrive, you hand off your luggage (travel light—just what you need for a night or two) and sit down in the lounge for refreshments. Sooner or later, a staff member comes by and checks you, sorting any remaining details. Then you’re taken to your room and your luggage is delivered. The rooms have a foyer, showers (no tub), a large tatami room, a small sunken lounge area, and then a private balcony with hammock, chairs and table. The tatami room will be set up for dinner on the floor (later to be cleared away for sleeping futons). You leave your shoes in the foyer. Until dinner, you can relax, excurse, or head to the top floor onsen. Robes are supplied. Four or five lovely private baths are available (first come first serve) and two large same-sex baths (these latter have the views). Whichever you choose, you strip down, thoroughly clean yourself at the provided stations, then soak in the pools as long as you like. Then you dry yourself off with the supplied towels, leave the towels in the bins, and return to your room.||Whether you opt for dinner or breakfast (or both) in your room: brace yourself for an enormous, extraordinary spread. It’s too much food, but it is also really excellent, and spectacularly presented. Some of the items will challenge you. When we were there, abalone was heavily featured, including cooked table side, in its shell with sake. DELICIOUS. Also expect quite a bit of good sashimi and a very large number of small delicacies. It’s over the top. Take your time and enjoy it.||They don’t get a lot of English-speaking clientele, but they handled it well enough. The service here is very high level.||The one minor problem we had was that our particular room had a little bit of a wind tunnel effect, but we were there during a typhoon and the other couple next door had no such complaints.||Not cheap, but by no means the most expensive option around, and a pretty good value once you factor in...

We drove from Tokyo to Izu, and in particular to this hotel in Inatori area. The full name is Hamanoyu in Izu Inatori. Famous for its meal preparations... especially the famous fish of the area "Sea Bream". Delicious for dinner and breakfast. The meals were mainly seafood, and the service in the hotel is impressive.||||We got the G type room, with the private onsen, 270 degrees facing the ocean. Absolutely stunning to wake up to in the morning at 5:30am... the sunrise, I will never forget it.||||The rooftop public bath is the ultimate onsen experience. It is on the rooftop, and infinity pool style. Breathtaking, and facing the ocean completely all around.... each day, the roof top publich bath rotates, women on one side, men on the other side, then next day, swtiches. After the bath, ensure you get a cold ice tea, and a Yuzu Sherbet outside the bath.... great way to cool down.||||The hotel arranged a hostess who took care of us during our stay, spoke fluent english. ||Prior to our arrival, I inquired whether my kids would be able to play "fireworks" (the small ones).... where they can wear their Yukatas, and play fireworks... you know, the ultimate Japanese onsen experience....... they tried it last year in a Fukuoka Onsen hotel, so they asked whether they would have that again. So I asked, and the hotel said their gift shop doesn't have it.||||Upon our arrival, when we checked in, one staff came out with a big bag of fireworks that they sent someone to prepurchase for us. That was impressive service.||||We drove 3 hours from Tokyo to this very secluded hotel, a word of warning, the road from Tokyo to Izu is very winding, but very beautiful, oceanview all the way.||||Highly recommended hotel. Highlight of our trip definitely, and among all the onsen hotels we stayed, this was one of the best. Not the quality of water of the onsen, but the whole experience and...