Ofunato Onsen

The room assigned was quite small, and there’s no shower in the room, you got to shower down at the onsen. Overall, the location is great, the dinner was okay, but the onsen was slightly disappointing as it was quite small, although the view was quite breathtaking.

Besides the amazing view of the room, outdoor hot bath top roof is very good of star gazing too

Superb onsen hotel. We took sea view and it was superb with a small balcony. Room are very confortable and big. Onsen was excellent with an outside bath looking at the bay. We had dinner also and it was 5 star. Staff were super helpful (front desk, restaurant etc)

Ofunato Onsen is a seaside ryokan-style hotel overlooking Ofunato Bay in Iwate Prefecture. Opened in 2014 as part of the region’s post-2011 tsunami recovery, it combines modern comfort with traditional Japanese hospitality. The hotel has about 58–69 rooms depending on room classification sources, nearly all with ocean views. Its biggest highlight is the natural open-air onsen facing the Pacific Ocean, especially famous for sunrise views over the bay. The fresh Sanriku seafood dinners were great. What amazed me was that they cleaned the soil from my bamboo walking staff when I placed it overnight at the hotel entrance umbrella stand.