Tuesday, September 1, 2026

The Top 27 Hotels Near B&B Itadaki

  1. A hot tub overlooking forested hillsides sets the tone at this mountain bed and breakfast on the quiet edge of Shizuoka City. The architecture leans modern-rustic in a way that feels earned rather than styled, and the family owners live next door, which explains both the warmth and the food. Breakfast comes with the room; a private dinner can be arranged, and the owners come from a culinary background, so that offer is worth taking seriously.




  2. A hilltop wellness resort outside Iwata where the garden alone contains around 700 varieties of trees, plants, and herbs. Rooms lean into muted greens and neutral tones, with treetop views doing most of the decorating. Three restaurants cover French and Japanese cooking with a seasonal, organic lean, and the spa runs the full circuit: yoga, sauna, beauty salon, and outdoor hot springs. The forest and tea plantations visible from every angle make the nature-as-therapy pitch hard to dismiss.


  3. A ryokan-meets-Italian-auberge is a concept that should not work and yet here we are. This small, centuries-old family estate in Nishi Izu has been converted into a handful of spacious suites and a villa, each nearly self-contained, with en suite spring-fed baths. An Italian restaurant and a French pastry bakery with house-made gelato round things out, because apparently halfway measures weren't considered.


  4. A restored 1907 teahouse sits at the heart of this ryokan, its sukiya-style architecture so quietly composed that the newer wing simply adopted the same wood-and-clay vocabulary rather than argue with it. Hinoki soaking tubs face floor-to-ceiling garden views, tatami and sliding panels do the decorating, and the Fuji-fed springs suggest you have nowhere urgent to be. The on-site restaurant leans hard into the local catch. A Michelin Key property.



  5. A Noh stage floats on the central pond, and performances are staged there regularly, which tells you everything about the register of this ryokan. The 12 tatami rooms are deliberately spare, all facing the courtyard rather than the forest so you don't miss it. The baths range from semi-public to private to a hot spring pool edged by rocks. The cuisine is traditional and none the worse for it. Asaba holds three Michelin Keys.


  6. A private hot tub fed by natural spring water sits on every balcony, which tells you something about the philosophy here. This Michelin Key-holding inn on the Izu Peninsula blends ryokan tradition with international boutique sensibility, the furniture by Osaka designers Graf, the walls of glass framing uninterrupted forest. The 32-seat French restaurant seats everyone facing outward, like a cinema where the film never changes. Two hours from Tokyo, no children under 12.


  7. The shared baths here look less like a hotel amenity and more like something carved by a stream over centuries, all natural rock, steam, and old timber. Ochiairo is a classic ryokan on the Izu Peninsula, about two hours from Tokyo, where kaiseki dinners arrive in your tatami room and the wooden structure seems to grow straight out of the mountain valley around it. It holds a Michelin Key.


  8. Every room faces Mt. Fuji, which sounds like a marketing promise until you're actually sitting in one. This modern ryokan on Lake Kawaguchi pairs that view with private onsen baths, natural materials throughout, and kaiseki meals built around regional ingredients. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. The eco-conscious approach never tips into austerity; the place leans into near-total quiet instead, which turns out to be the point.


  9. A hotel on the grounds of an active racing circuit, with floor-to-ceiling windows framing both Mount Fuji and the track. Rooms are minimalist and considered, with soaking tubs and balconies, and the property includes an onsen-style spa, a motorsport museum, and Italian and Japanese restaurants. The excursions menu covers Fuji and the speedway, which is a sentence that makes perfect sense here. It holds a Michelin Key.



  10. A French auberge in Hakone is an odd choice until you're soaking in the private onsen that comes with every room. This small resort takes twenty Western-style rooms and pairs them with European cooking built from local ingredients, some looking out over the caldera, others into dense cedar green. It holds a Michelin Key, and the whole thing feels like someone genuinely couldn't choose between Burgundy and the hot springs, then refused to.


  11. The reception sits on the top floor so that every guest's first view is Sagami Bay through floor-to-ceiling glass, which tells you exactly what this ryokan-style hotel is about. Every room has a private terrace with an onsen bath facing the water, communal open-air soaking pools sit one floor below, and an indoor circuit of baths and saunas handles the rest. A sushi bar and a kaiseki seafood restaurant round things out. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.


  12. Mount Fuji fills the balcony view at this design-forward resort hotel at the mountain's base, where the pitch is "luxury self-hospitality": you get a full kitchen, a private sauna in many suites, and the sense that no one is hovering. Bunk rooms handle families, a jacuzzi penthouse handles groups with ambitions, and dogs get their own rooftop run. The café-lounge BASE445 pulls everyone back together with local food and craft drinks when the sauna cycling winds down.


  13. Five suites in the Hakone highlands, each with its own private spa facilities and views of forested hills that do most of the convincing before you've unpacked. This small, renovated inn keeps a vast garden, hot-spring onsen, and traditional herbal soaks from an older life, updated just enough to feel cared for rather than preserved. The kind of place where slow-living stops being a concept and becomes a schedule.


  14. The vineyard rows run right up to your door at this winery villa tucked into the northern foothills of Mount Fuji, where the pitch is that you don't just drink the wine, you help make it. Guests can join seasonal vineyard work, tour the terroir by e-bike, or simply sit with a small-lot bottle from grapes grown a few steps away. It's a working agricultural stay as much as a hotel, and the landscape does most of the decorating.


  15. Private wood-timbered bungalows tucked into the Hakone forest, each one stocked with a kitchenette, a fireplace, and its own mineral hot spring, so you never have to negotiate with another guest over the onsen schedule. This resort is designed for switching off, and the house supplies coloring books and board games to prove it means this literally. Hiking and cycling trails are nearby when the fireplace loses its argument.



  16. Each suite faces the Pacific with nothing between you and open water except a cliff, which is either thrilling or clarifying depending on your mood. This small clifftop resort in Atami combines hot spring heritage with a nine-seat dinner counter where the cooking runs French in technique and Shizuoka in spirit. The waves are audible all night, which Atami's old hot spring crowd would have considered the whole point.


  17. Every room at this small coastal resort looks straight out over Sagami Bay, and each one has its own private hot spring bath so you never have to queue for the thermal waters Atami has been famous for forever. Thirteen rooms split between Western-style suites and two traditional sukiya-zukuri suites keep things quiet, while the restaurant turns local ingredients into French dishes with the bay as backdrop. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.


  18. An international luxury resort tucked into Gora, a hot spring town in the forested hills near Mount Fuji, the Hyatt Regency Hakone sits where ryokans typically rule, and holds its own with Western rooms, tatami suites, mountain balconies, and jetted tubs. The onsen baths are the draw, fed by actual hot springs, and the ancient Hakone-Jinja shrine is a short wander away. Commit to the property: this is proper resort territory, not a hotel with a good neighborhood.


  19. A rooftop onsen on the twelfth floor, spring-fed and infinity-edged, with the Pacific rolling out below. This Michelin Selected hotel in Atami keeps everything else equally calm: rooms done in a modern take on classic Japanese style, paper screens and understated finishes, none of the maximalist resort theatre you'd find elsewhere. Five restaurants and bars means you can probably avoid leaving, which, given the views, is the idea.




  20. Every room at this large resort in the hills above Hakone comes with its own private open-air onsen, which makes the public baths, already spectacular, feel almost redundant. Too big to call itself a ryokan but borrowing everything appealing about one: forest trails, mountain seclusion, seasonal Japanese cuisine, and the sound of waterfalls doing most of the therapeutic work before any massage is booked.


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