Top 10 Minakami Onsen Hotels

It seems contradictory, but it is an extraordinary experience to be very relaxed. The location is not a hot spring town, in a quiet countryside. This time, it was wrapped in autumn leaves that delighted the eyes everywhere in the hall. There is a space where you can enjoy a welcome drink next to the lobby, and there are alcohol such as sparkling wine, shochu, sake. Coffee is attentive because there are machines that have different methods of extraction between daytime and morning. The dining room is a private room, so it's calm, but in some cases I was worried about the voice next door. I stayed in a spacious maisonette-style room, but the open-air bath adjacent to the relaxing room was especially relaxing as Hiro 々. Perhaps it was using the circulation of hot spring water, the whole room was fluffy and warm. It was very well cleaned. The meal was a dish centered on local ingredients, and although it was not flashy luxury, all of them were made with their own ingenuity, and they were surprising and enjoyed very much. For example, the soil soup served at night was a potage made with burdock, taro, and chrysanthemum, and it was a fresh experience that should be called ”tasting the umami of the soil”. The timing of the serve is also sketchy, which will match the cooking time of the cooked rice according to the progress of drinking here.

I stayed here in April 2022 on the occasion of the expansion of Kenminwari. As the name of the inn suggests, the sound of the murmuring of the river never ceases. The hot springs are colorless and transparent, glittering and slippery. It is said that there are plenty of hot spring sources, and the spouts of all baths are drinkable. There is a large communal bath for men and women in the main building and a separate mixed bathing open-air bath, which is not connected to the bath in the main building. The hot water is completely transparent, so the hurdle for mixed bathing is high. However, there are separate dressing rooms for men and women, and bath clothes are available at the shop. Dinner is a kaiseki meal with lean beef steak grilled on a stone slab as the main dish. Mr. Nakai is a foreigner, but he does his best to explain the dishes. I bow my head like a hard worker in a foreign land. Inari sushi is prepared in the room for a late-night snack, but this is a grown-up taste mixed with wasabi stems. For breakfast, if you go at the exact time of your reservation, the dashimaki* will still be warm. There was a great attention to detail. There are many cherry blossoms planted in the garden of this inn, but this time it was a really elegant timing when the cherry blossoms in full bloom were blown by the wind and turned into a cherry blossom storm.

Rooms are very new and large in Japan standard. Bath tub in the balcony facing the river is very relaxing. Dinner is not as good as expected but breakfast is great.

There was a coffee service (tea, cold water) in the lobby, and I used it three times while sitting on a comfortable sofa. The room was 8 tatami mats, long and not large, but comfortable. Two keys and two yukatas. There is no open-air bath in the bath. The inner hot water was not a net door or a wind, so this hot time was steamy and hot. On the way, the cooler cooled his head at the dressing room where the cooler was scrambled. Other guests also said hohoho. I thought it would be good to pass the wind with a net door or a ventilation fan only in summer. The next morning, the hot water was good because there was an open-air bath. Dinner was a large venue meal. This time it was not roast, so I was able to eat slowly. The brewery was made of kawafugu (catfish), cherry blossoms, silver light (high-class nijimas that can only be tasted in Gunma), and cherry blossom rice was made of cherry blossoms, and the local chicken, pig, and cow were made of sukiyaki of the rice, and it was unique and delicious. I usually eat rice as I pass, but it is great that it is just a amount in my stomach even though the number of items is large. Also, the cold sake of sake of sake (300 CC 1200 yen) was delicious and perfect for cooking. The breakfast was also satisfactory at the same venue. The staff at the restaurant is also very good customer service.

[Location] It's easy because there is a shuttle bus from Minakami Station. 【service】 He is very polite and looks at our customers. (If you accidentally dropped the ingredients during the breakfast buffet, an employee at a distance told me ”I'm OK as it is.”) [Cleanliness] I thought the exterior was a bit rough (the exterior of the lobby was beautiful), but the interior was very beautiful. Surprisingly beautiful. [Facilities and amenities] ・ You can drink coffee and apple juice freely in the lounge. (I drank apple juice but it was very delicious.) -Take toilet paper in the room toilet It is a bit disappointing that the rattling sound reverberates in the bedroom. ・ There is a fireplace beside the lobby and it looks like an Instagram. [General] The hotel itself was very beautiful and the service was good. I would definitely stay here when I went over the water.