Overview

Izanro Iwasaki brings you into the heart of Misasa Onsen in Tottori, one of Japan’s best-known radium hot spring areas. Founded in 1920, this long-established ryokan has welcomed members of the Imperial family and many writers and artists over its history. You can feel that heritage in the spacious lobby, the garden views, the gallery displays, and the quiet flow of the Misasa River nearby.

This is a stay for slow bathing, seasonal San’in cuisine, and classic ryokan atmosphere. Misasa Onsen is recognized as a Japan Heritage hot spring area, and Izanro Iwasaki gives you access to its radium-rich waters through large garden baths, open-air baths, a mist sauna, and selected rooms with private source-fed baths.

Accommodation

You can choose from pure Japanese-style rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, concept-floor rooms, special rooms, and the guestroom suite. Selected rooms include private open-air or semi-open-air baths, and the open-air baths in these rooms use free-flowing source water.

Sansuikaku / Tozankaku Japanese-Style Room gives you a classic ryokan stay with tatami, a calm Japanese layout, and views of the Misasa River, mountains, or garden depending on the room. This is the right choice when you want a traditional setting and a relaxed ryokan atmosphere.

Tozankaku Japanese-Style Room with Open-Air Hinoki Bath adds a private open-air cypress bath to the Japanese-style room experience. You can soak in your own bath while looking toward the Misasa River, making it a strong choice for a private onsen-style stay.

Futaba Japanese-Style Twin offers a simple Japanese-inspired room with twin beds and views toward the mountain or garden. It suits you if you prefer beds but still want the feeling of a ryokan stay.

Futaba Japanese-Western Room combines a Japanese sitting area with a bed space. You get a soft balance of tatami atmosphere and easy bed-style sleeping, with mountain or garden views.

Futaba Two-Room Japanese-Western Room gives you more separation and a Misasa River view. It works well when you want both Japanese-style relaxation and Western-style sleeping in one room.

Futaba Japanese-Western Room with Semi-Open-Air Bath includes a private semi-open-air bath and a Misasa River view. You can enjoy a more private bathing rhythm without leaving your room.

Futaba Junior Suite Sasafune / Tsukifune gives you a larger Japanese-Western layout, a wide window, a private semi-open-air bath, and views of the Misasa River.

Futaba Suite Kawanami / Kawagiri includes a Japanese room, dining area, bedroom, private semi-open-air stone bath, and river view. It suits you when you want more space and a more refined in-room experience.

Special Room Wakatake features a Japanese room, a sitting area, a bedroom, and a private semi-open-air stone bath. From the room, you can look toward the Misasa River and the onsen town.

Special Room Kuretake gives you a spacious Japanese-Western layout with a bedroom and a private semi-open-air granite bath facing the Misasa River.

Special Room Otowa offers a high-floor setting with Japanese rooms, a bedroom, and a private open-air rock bath with a river view.

Guestroom Suite Sakuragawa is the most spacious option, with a Japanese room, sitting room, bedroom, private entrance, indoor hinoki bath, and private open-air rock bath. From here, you can enjoy views of the Misasa River, mountains, and garden.

Rooms include Wi-Fi, yukata, towels, tea set, refrigerator, safe, and other standard in-room items. All rooms are non-smoking.

Dining

Dinner focuses on the tastes of the San’in region, with seafood from the Sea of Japan and ingredients from Tottori’s mountain villages. Seasonal highlights include summer rock oysters, winter Matsuba crab, Tottori Wagyu Olein 55, mosa shrimp, local vegetables, and optional dishes built around seafood and Tottori brand beef.

You can expect Japanese-style kaiseki built around the season. The main Iwasaki kaiseki offers a satisfying meal centered on San’in seafood, while the Hanano kaiseki focuses more on quality and course-by-course presentation. Meals are generally served in a dining venue separate from your room.

Breakfast is a Japanese meal made with local touches, including Misasa-grown Koshihikari rice, San’in tofu chikuwa, delicacies, and Izanro Iwasaki’s traditional plum chawanmushi.

Onsen and Wellness

The baths are one of the strongest reasons to stay here. Misasa Onsen is known for radium-rich hot spring water with a high radon content, and the spring quality is listed as sodium chloride-bicarbonate spring and radium spring.

The main bathing area is the garden-style open-air bath area Yama-no-Yu, divided into Left Bath and Right Bath. The sides switch between men and women early in the morning, so you may be able to enjoy both during your stay. The bath area includes large indoor baths, open-air baths, and a radium mist sauna.

The Left Bath was renewed in 2025 and has a rustic garden-bath atmosphere. The Right Bath was renewed in 2019 and has a retro bathing mood inspired by classic hot spring culture.

You can also reserve Dokuzan-no-Yu, a private open-air bath with an indoor bath and open-air bath. It uses free-flowing source water and supports barrier-free use.

After bathing, you can stop by the rest area Nemu near the entrance to Yama-no-Yu or try the drinking spring area, which lets you experience Misasa’s hot spring culture through bathing, drinking, and inhaling the steam.

Guests with Tattoos

Because you can soak in a private onsen inside selected room types, you can enjoy the onsen regardless of tattoos.

For the public bath, if you have tattoos, check with the hotel directly before using the shared bathing areas.

Facilities

Izanro Iwasaki gives you more than a place to sleep. You can spend time in a spacious lobby, look out over the garden, browse local souvenirs, or enjoy a quiet drink in one of the lounges.

Key facilities include:

• Japanese Garden Isuien, a designated scenic garden of Tottori Prefecture and Misasa Town
• Gallery Iwasaki, with items connected to the ryokan’s history since 1920
• Garden Lounge Shirakaba, with garden views and drinks
• River Lounge Myojo, with large windows overlooking the Misasa River
• Relaxation Rika, offering treatments that use hot spring mist from the radium steam bath
• Shop San’in Miyage, with local seafood products, Tottori specialties such as pear, chestnut, and yuzu, and Izanro Iwasaki’s original sake “Hanano”
• Morning market with local seafood, held irregularly
• Color yukata rental for women
• Free parking for about 80 cars
• Reserved shuttle bus service from JR Kurayoshi Station
• Non-smoking rooms, dining venues, and shared public areas

Activities

You can step out in yukata and explore Misasa Onsen’s old-town atmosphere, with the river, retro shops, shooting gallery, candy shop, sake brewery, and the famous riverside Kawara-buro nearby.

Nearby spots include Kajika Frog on Koitani Bridge, known as a good-luck charm for matchmaking, Misasa Violin Museum, where you can learn about stringed instrument making, and Misasa Shrine, where hot spring water flows at the shrine entrance.

You can also visit Yakushi-no-Yu Footbath, Kabuyu, known as the original hot spring of Misasa Onsen, and Su-ha Onsen, a reservation-based hot-air bathing facility connected to Misasa’s “soak, drink, inhale” hot spring culture.

For a deeper cultural outing, the surrounding area includes Mitokusan Sanbutsu-ji, a temple area with important cultural properties, and Tottori’s wider sightseeing area, including the Tottori Sand Dunes.

Additional Features

• Founded in 1920
• Located in Misasa Onsen, a Japan Heritage radium hot spring area
• Garden-style open-air bath area Yama-no-Yu
• Indoor baths, open-air baths, radium mist sauna, drinking spring area, and rest area
• Private bath Dokuzan-no-Yu available by reservation
• Selected rooms with private source-fed open-air or semi-open-air baths
• Japanese-style, Japanese-Western, special-room, and suite options
• Seasonal Japanese cuisine with San’in seafood and Tottori ingredients
• Breakfast with Misasa-grown Koshihikari rice, tofu chikuwa, and plum chawanmushi
• Japanese Garden Isuien
• Gallery Iwasaki
• Garden lounge and river lounge
• Relaxation salon
• Souvenir shop and irregular morning market
• Color yukata rental
• Wi-Fi in rooms
• Free parking for about 80 cars
• Reserved shuttle service from JR Kurayoshi Station
• Non-smoking rooms and shared spaces