Overview
Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha is a hot spring hotel overlooking Ena Gorge in Gifu. Every room faces the gorge, so you can enjoy the changing scenery of the water, cliffs, bridge, and surrounding hills throughout your stay. The setting feels open and scenic, with spring blossoms, summer greenery, autumn color, and winter birdlife shaping the view by season.
You stay in a comfortable lakeside hotel with Japanese and Western room styles, seasonal kaiseki dining, shared hot spring baths, reservable private baths, and easy access to Ena Gorge sightseeing. This is a good choice when you want nature views, a relaxed hot spring stay, and a base for exploring Ena, Nakatsugawa, and the old post towns of the Nakasendo.
Accommodation
All rooms at Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha have views of Ena Gorge. You can choose from nine room types, including Western-style twin rooms, Japanese-style rooms with wide veranda spaces, Japanese-modern rooms, top-floor rooms, and a barrier-free twin room.
The top-floor twin room includes a massage chair, Simmons beds, a raised tatami-style area, a coffee maker, and a bath and toilet in separate spaces. The top-floor Japanese-modern twin room has Ryukyu tatami, Simmons beds, a coffee maker, and a clean Japanese-Western feel. These rooms work well when you want a higher-floor view and a more restful room layout.
The Western-style twin rooms include standard twin rooms and twin rooms with a raised tatami-style space. The Japanese-style rooms come in 6-tatami, 8-tatami, and 10-tatami layouts, each with a wide veranda where you can sit and look out toward Ena Gorge. Some rooms have showers or unit baths, while others are out-bath rooms with toilets, so the shared hot spring baths become the main bathing space.
The barrier-free twin room has a step-free layout, reclining beds, a bath and toilet, and a design that supports easier wheelchair movement. All rooms are non-smoking and include Wi-Fi, a television, kettle, tea set, refrigerator, washlet toilet, hairdryer, yukata, towels, and basic amenities.
Dining
Dinner at Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha is Japanese kaiseki built around seasonal ingredients and Gifu flavors. The meal is shaped around the view of Ena Gorge and the changing seasons, with dishes that may include A5 Hida beef, local river fish, seasonal seafood, vegetables, rice, miso, pickles, and carefully prepared Japanese courses.
The higher-grade kaiseki course may include dishes such as Hida beef cold-shabu salad, sashimi, salt-grilled live ayu from the Ena river area, Hida beef seared sushi, Hida beef teppanyaki, eel with seasonal vegetables, Gifu-grown rice, miso from Ena’s Maruko Jozo, and seasonal sweets. Menus change by season and plan, so each stay gives you a slightly different taste of the region.
Breakfast is served as a Japanese and Western buffet with around 40 items. You can enjoy local breakfast touches such as Hoba miso and Keichan, along with warm dishes and buffet-style options. Both dinner and breakfast are served in the second-floor restaurant, where you can look out toward Ena Gorge while you eat. Private dining rooms are also available by advance request.
The second-floor café, Kasaiwa, serves light meals and sweets during the day. You can enjoy items such as sandwiches, pasta, pizza toast, pilaf, coffee jelly made with Ena Yamaoka agar, cream anmitsu, and chestnut zenzai while looking toward the gorge.
Onsen and Wellness
The hot spring area has large public baths with six bath styles and reservable private baths. The large bath spaces include indoor baths and open-air baths, with features such as rock baths, medicinal baths, jet-style baths, waterfall-style baths, herbal baths, hinoki baths, ultrasonic baths, esthetic baths, and outdoor bathing areas. The men’s and women’s bath areas switch by time, so you can enjoy different bathing spaces during your stay.
The shared baths are open from 15:00 to 24:00 and again from 5:00 to 9:00. The open-air baths let you feel the air of Ena Gorge, while the indoor baths give you a larger and more sheltered place to soak.
The spring quality is a simple weak radioactive cold mineral spring with low tonicity and weak acidity. It is associated with relief from neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, cuts, burns, chronic skin conditions, cold sensitivity, tiredness, and general health support. The bath area includes shampoo, conditioner, body soap, and face wash.
Two reservable private baths, Kiso no Yu and Kasagi no Yu, are also available. Both are indoor private baths with washing areas and changing spaces, giving you a more private way to enjoy the hot spring with family, a partner, or your own quiet time.
Guests with Tattoos
Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha has shared public hot spring baths and reservable private baths. Tattoos are not accepted in the shared bathing areas unless they can be fully covered with tattoo cover stickers. If your tattoo cannot be fully covered, use a reservable private bath instead.
Facilities
Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha has a second-floor front lobby with Ena Gorge views, a restaurant, Café Kasaiwa, a shop, meeting rooms, banquet spaces, shared hot spring baths, reservable private baths, karaoke room, game corner, vending machines, coin laundry, smoking areas, and parking. The lobby hosts seasonal displays and events, while the shop sells local souvenirs. The meeting and banquet rooms can be used for gatherings, training sessions, exhibitions, and private events with advance request.
Loan items include phone chargers, desk lamps, extension cords, baby items, children’s bath chairs, a baby bath, a cradle, step stools, igo, and shogi. The coin laundry is available around the clock, which helps when you stay longer or travel through the region.
Activities
Ena Gorge is about 15 minutes away on foot, so you can easily enjoy the area’s cliff scenery, walking paths, and seasonal views. The Ena Gorge sightseeing boat also leaves nearby and gives you a 360-degree view of the gorge from the water.
You can also visit Ena Gorge Wonderland by car, which suits family travel with rides and views over the gorge. Stone Museum Hakusekikan offers mineral displays, a pyramid maze, and hands-on gemstone experiences. For history and old-town scenery, Magome-juku gives you a stone-paved Nakasendo post town with cafés and shops along the slope.
Other day-trip ideas include Iwamura Castle Ruins, Naegi Castle Ruins, Nihon Taisho Village, and Roadside Station Rassei Misato. These places let you add castle history, mountain views, Taisho-era town atmosphere, local food, and countryside scenery to your stay.
Additional Features
Enakyo Onsen Hotel Yuzuriha gives you Ena Gorge views from every room, nine room types, Japanese and Western room options, Simmons beds in Western-style rooms, shared hot spring baths, reservable private baths, seasonal kaiseki dining, breakfast buffet, café, shop, meeting and banquet spaces, coin laundry, parking, and Wi-Fi.
Check-in is from 15:00, and check-out is by 10:00. By car, the hotel is about 10 minutes from Ena Interchange. By public transport, you can take a route bus from JR Ena Station to Yuzuriha-mae, then walk about 30 seconds to the hotel.
