Ryugujo Spa Hotel Mikazuki — Hotel in Kisarazu

We visited this spa resort (hot baths, swimming pools, massages, sand baths & AYCE buffet-rare in Japan) many times! Our family was living in Japan for a time and able to visit this spa-hotel combo multiple times throughout the year. If you love seeing planes landing at airports over Tokyo Bay, vistas of Tokyo, Yokohama & Mt. Fuji then this is the place to spend your time. We ate like kings in the All You Can Eat buffet. Everything Japanese & a few other international delights plus Gelato was always scrumptious! My kids ate bowls of freshly prepared Ramen.||We scrubbed our bodies thoroughly and soaked to our hearts content in the naked spas (Onsen). There are beautiful indoor pools to include a silver and gold bath tub, and the outdoor pools are under a canopy so visibility to the outside world is well hidden. In the winter, the bracing air coming off the bay makes for delicious soaks while watching the waves or gazing upon Mt. Fuji's snow capped peak. The inner pools have a huge water slide, bubble beds and a lazy river that is all in swimming suits (togs). So if you have a discomfort with nudity, please enjoy those pools. Just outside the inner pool there are also hot baths to dip in. There is a smaller lazy river, and a much larger (?100m) pool that is open in summer. Massages and sand baths can be purchased and are well worth the investment. If you are traveling and have forgotten your swim suit, don't worry, you can rent it! And lastly, they recently added on a very large addition for shops and other foods for purchase. There is a fantastic indoor playground for the kiddies here as well. It's fee for time based, but my older kids (11 at the time we last visited) had such great fun. They free played on trampolines & bouncy beds, rolled inside huge bubble tubes, and rode trikes around a track, racing each other. Many families with younger children were also there but not disturbed by our presence. Because we lived nearby I cannot give a review about the hotel Please give Ryugu a try if you are in the...

We visited this spa resort (hot baths, swimming pools, massages, sand baths & AYCE buffet-rare in Japan) many times! Our family was living in Japan for a time and able to visit this spa-hotel combo multiple times throughout the year. If you love seeing planes landing at airports over Tokyo Bay, vistas of Tokyo, Yokohama & Mt. Fuji then this is the place to spend your time. We ate like kings in the All You Can Eat buffet. Everything Japanese & a few other international delights plus Gelato was always scrumptious! My kids ate bowls of freshly prepared Ramen.||We scrubbed our bodies thoroughly and soaked to our hearts content in the naked spas (Onsen). There are beautiful indoor pools to include a silver and gold bath tub, and the outdoor pools are under a canopy so visibility to the outside world is well hidden. In the winter, the bracing air coming off the bay makes for delicious soaks while watching the waves or gazing upon Mt. Fuji's snow capped peak. The inner pools have a huge water slide, bubble beds and a lazy river that is all in swimming suits (togs). So if you have a discomfort with nudity, please enjoy those pools. Just outside the inner pool there are also hot baths to dip in. There is a smaller lazy river, and a much larger (?100m) pool that is open in summer. Massages and sand baths can be purchased and are well worth the investment. If you are traveling and have forgotten your swim suit, don't worry, you can rent it! And lastly, they recently added on a very large addition for shops and other foods for purchase. There is a fantastic indoor playground for the kiddies here as well. It's fee for time based, but my older kids (11 at the time we last visited) had such great fun. They free played on trampolines & bouncy beds, rolled inside huge bubble tubes, and rode trikes around a track, racing each other. Many families with younger children were also there but not disturbed by our presence. Because we lived nearby I cannot give a review about the hotel Please give Ryugu a try if you are in the...

This is a fairly large pools & onsen complex. Kids and adults can have fun in the pool, water-chute, bubble beds etc and mixed, clothed, relaxation pools at various LED-displayed temperatures and some zany colours. Then the separate onsen parts include a gold bath, steam, sauna, waterfall areas, quite extensive rotemburo, with again different temperatures and milky and seaweed-brown pools. So plenty aquatherapy! And as the light fades the illuminations around the pool, and then a fountain & coloured lights show, complete the experience. On the downside, a few of the chute/waterfall machines were "awaiting service" and the pool area looked a bit tired and worn, probably time for a makeover. The warm sand sauna was the highlight for us, excellent 15 minutes at a modest price.||||Check-in is 3pm, I'd recommend getting to the water areas soon while the rest of the hotel is still arriving or sorting out their rooms. And again, take a late breakfast and get dipping at 7am when half the hotel is at breakfast. We were there during school holidays but never felt crowded in the onsen and outdoor pool. Indoor pool, bit of a different story.||||Dinner and breakfast are buffet style, and whilst there is plenty variety, it is a bit sort of industrial scale, and the quality did vary. Japanese, Chinese and Western offerings all available. Something for everyone, but not for the gourmets. We liked the chilli prawns, sashimi (separate serving area from the mega-rows of average maguro sushi), tempura, choc fountain, breakfast coffee and scrambled eggs. We did not rate so highly the chicken wings, steak portions, and udon. Plates slow to be cleared away etc but given the huge throughput it's not bad for the price.||||Given the size of the place they could have put the smoking area further away from the restaurant entrance.||||Plenty parking; and free buses to the local station. Our room included a mini fridge, and...