Welcome to Yunoshimakan. This Traditional Ryokan is located in the mountains above Gero Onsen, and from their hot spring baths guests have a view of the surrounding mountains and Gero Onsen lying below.

Yunoshimakan is one of the oldest ryokans in Japan, and there is a 3 story wooden building which was built in 1931 and registered as a tangible cultural property in 2010. This traditional building is located in the mountains above Gero Onsen, and the guests have a view of the surrounding mountain and Gero Onsen lying below from their hot spring baths. Yunoshimakan is a large ryokan with 66 Japanese style guest rooms and 1 combined Western and Japanese style guest room. The rooms are located in various buildings within this complex. There are indoor and outdoor hot spring baths for both women and men (same gender only), and there are also “family baths” which can be privately reserved by guests. Traditional Japanese style cuisine is served to the guests. Yunoshimakan is waiting for you with traditional and historical service and hospitality. Check-in time is after 3:00 PM and check-out time is before 11:00 AM. Parking is available.

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• The highlight of our trip

  Peter

  Month of Visit: May

  Country Of Reviewer: Canada

  Atmosphere Rating - 5

  Food Rating - 5

  Staff Rating - 5

  Location Rating - 5

  Room Rating - 4

  I've stayed at a half-dozen onsen ryokan over some 49 years, and this was my favorite. The grounds are gorgeous; it's splendidly isolated; the meals were scrumptious; perhaps the only wee disappointment was the baths themselves, which were simply good but not brilliant. Yunoshima also provided good value.

• Fantastic Experience

  Month of Visit: March

  Country Of Reviewer: USA

  Atmosphere Rating - 4

  Food Rating - 4

  Staff Rating - 5

  Location Rating - 4

  Room Rating - 4

  I had an incredible stay here. I stayed in a traditional Japanese room and found it comfortable, spacious and the bathroom was amazing. The food is excellent, the service is excellent, and the hotel is mysterious, beautiful, and an adventure in it's own right because it's an usual design on the side of some hills. The onsen (hot springs) are fantastic, relaxing, and quite nice. The little spa things like the French Bed massage table are just added bonus. Can't recommend this place highly enough.

• Worst Cold, Dirty, Japanese Experience Of My Life

  Month of Visit: December

  Country Of Reviewer:

  Atmosphere Rating - 1

  Food Rating - 5

  Staff Rating - 2

  Location Rating - 2

  Room Rating - 1

  My husband and I have stayed in several ryokans in our travels through Japan so we were looking forward to this stay over New Year's 2014-2015. We payed an outrageous 75,000yen per night to have a room with a 'private family outdoor bath'. Everything except for the kaiseki dinner and breakfast were incredibly disappointing. (1) We were in the old portion of the hotel which was dirty, crumbling and incredibly cold. There were cracks in the walls in our room and only the sitting area had a heater so the bathroom was nearly as cold as the outside which was less than 0 degrees. (2) the 'private bath' was more of a foot bath - less than 2 feet deep and too small for anyone but a child to sit in. There's no way it was usable in the cold. (3) the private family baths in the hotel were disgusting. they looked like something I would expect to see in a prison. They were the grossest thing I have ever seen in Japan. (4) there is absolutely nothing to do during the day. none of the baths are open until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon and breakfast is only served until 9am so there are hours to kill with nothing to do. The billiards and ping pong rooms were so cold and unheated that even while wearing winter coats inside, it was too cold to stay in the rooms. (5) The food and our attendant were the only good things about our stay. It was amazing. Even so, we seriously considered leaving after the first night and giving up what we paid to go back to Tokyo. We couldn't because of the holiday, so we had to stay. But I would never recommend or want to visit this ryokan again.