The Best Hotels in Kaga

A ryokan in the mountains of Ishikawa Prefecture where someone has thought carefully about how shadows fall on a wall when light filters through a bamboo screen. Seventeen rooms, each with tatami living areas, private cypress baths fed by hot springs, and windows framing the woods. Three communal baths look nothing alike. The kitchen follows the seasons closely, drawing from both mountain and coast. It holds a Michelin Key.

A ryokan perched above the forested gorge of Kakusenkei, with mineral spring baths that have been in use longer than anyone can politely remember. Yamanaka Onsen is classic Japanese inn country, and Hanamurasaki leans into that without going stiff about it: kaiseki meals but also à la carte, sake pairings, and a tea lounge serving cocktails alongside local Kaga bōcha. Every room faces the trees and the gorge below.