Overview
Omuro no Mori Gyokusui gives you a quiet, refined stay in Izu-Kogen, high above the coast of Ito. From the property, you can look across the sea, the islands, the mountains, and the changing colours of the Izu landscape. With only nine rooms, every part of the stay feels private and carefully paced.
The ryokan follows the idea of fueki ryūkō, keeping the lasting heart of Japanese hospitality while adding fresh ways to enjoy travel today. You feel this balance in the ocean-view rooms, the private open-air baths, the record room, the flower-themed dining rooms, and the calm lounge that looks out toward the water.
Every room has its own free-flowing open-air hot spring bath, so your stay centres on privacy. You can soak in your room, eat in a private dining room, listen to records after a treatment, or use the ryokan as a quiet base for Mount Omuro, Jogasaki Coast, and the wider Izu-Kogen area.
Accommodation
Omuro no Mori Gyokusui offers four room types, and all rooms include an ocean-view open-air bath with free-flowing hot spring water. Each room also has a deck terrace, comfortable roomwear, a complimentary refrigerator, and a coffee maker, allowing you to settle in without leaving your room often.
The Ocean View Special Room is the highest-grade room type. It measures 64.22 square metres indoors, with a 19.9-square-metre deck terrace. You have a living room designed for comfort, a Japanese room, a massage chair, and a wide terrace of around ten metres. This room works well when you want extra space and a deeper sense of privacy.
The Ocean View Corner Suite measures 50.41 square metres indoors, with a 17.34-square-metre deck terrace. It includes a living and bedroom area, an eight-tatami Japanese room, and a terrace of around eight metres. Because it sits on a corner, the layout makes the most of the view, with the bed and open-air bath arranged so you can enjoy the sea more fully.
The Ocean View Second-Floor Twin measures 40.01 square metres indoors, with a 17.41-square-metre deck terrace. Large windows stretch across the room, and the sofa and beds face the view. This room gives you one of the most open-feeling layouts at the ryokan, with the sea, sky, and light becoming part of the room.
The Ocean View First-Floor Twin measures 41.02 square metres indoors, with a large 29.20-square-metre deck terrace. Only one room is available in this category. The terrace includes deck chairs, a side table, a sofa, and the open-air bath, giving you the feeling of a private outdoor living space.
Dining
Dinner and breakfast take place at Izumi, the fully private dining room area. Each dining room uses table seating and carries the name and design of a flower, giving you privacy while still keeping the meal connected to Japanese ryokan style.
Dinner follows a kaiseki format under the theme Shunmi Ginei, which reflects the ryokan’s wish to turn each meal into something enjoyed through both taste and presentation. The kitchen uses seasonal ingredients from Izu, with careful attention to broth, seasoning, tableware, and visual flow.
Local seafood plays an important role. Depending on your course, dinner may include local spiny lobster, abalone sashimi, simmered kinmedai, seasonal sashimi, kinmedai shabu-shabu, domestic beef sirloin cooked on lava stone, domestic beef sirloin steak, three cuts of beef for comparison, four kinds of Izu seafood shabu-shabu, abalone cooked on a ceramic plate, and Izu’s local magocha.
You can choose between several kaiseki courses depending on your appetite and preferred main dish. Some courses allow you to choose between seafood and beef, while higher courses combine more of Izu’s seafood with meat dishes. Menus change with the season and ingredient availability.
Breakfast continues the seasonal Japanese approach in your private dining room. You can enjoy local ingredients, rice, fish, vegetables, and dishes prepared to start the day gently. The ryokan can assist with food allergies when details are provided by the required deadline, although some ingredients may not be replaceable.
Onsen and Wellness
Every room has a private open-air bath supplied with free-flowing hot spring water. There is no need to follow public bathing hours or share a bath with anyone outside your booking. You can soak after arrival, before dinner, late at night, or early in the morning while looking toward the sea and islands.
The baths are designed to fit two people comfortably and include a changing area and shower space. Depending on your room, you may soak from a wide upper-floor terrace, a corner terrace, or a first-floor outdoor space that feels like a private garden deck.
The hot spring water is managed by a yumori, a bath keeper who adjusts the bathing condition according to the day’s weather, temperature, and water quality. The water is free-flowing and has a gentle, almost scentless character. The official spring analysis lists it as a sodium-calcium chloride and sulfate spring, with a source temperature of 66.5°C and a pH of 8.0.
The ryokan highlights the water for fatigue recovery, sensitivity to cold, and skin-related support. Because the water is not strongly stimulating, you can enjoy longer, slower bathing with less concern about feeling overwhelmed by the spring.
Yumoribito bath products are provided in the rooms. These original in-bath products were developed around the ryokan group’s long experience with hot spring water and are designed to work well with the spring quality.
Guests with Tattoos
Every room has its own private open-air hot spring bath, so you can use the onsen if you have tattoos. Omuro no Mori Gyokusui does not list shared public bathing facilities, so your hot spring experience stays private inside your room.
Facilities
Omuro no Mori Gyokusui includes an ocean-view lounge where you can begin your stay with the sea in front of you. You can return here after dinner for a drink or a quieter moment outside your room. The lounge counter, front desk, gallery, shop, terrace, and fireplace add to the ryokan’s calm, polished atmosphere.
The study, or record room, offers a record player, records from different periods and genres, magazines, books, and an aroma pot. You can order drinks from the lounge and spend time with music, reading, and scent in a space designed for slower evenings.
Izumi provides fully private table-style dining rooms, each named after a flower and decorated with matching artwork and details. The ryokan also has an esthetic room, where treatments use original aromas, hot spring mist, Yumoribito products, and the ryokan’s hot spring approach. After a treatment, you can relax in the study with herbal tea and music. Acupuncture, moxibustion, shiatsu massage, and facial acupuncture are also available through trained practitioners.
The building does not have an elevator. You need to use stairs when moving through the property, and the entrance sits on the second floor while the dining area sits on the first floor. Rooms on the first floor reduce the amount of stair movement.
Activities
You can shape your stay around your room, bath, food, and quiet time inside the ryokan. Start with tea in the lounge, soak in your private open-air bath, enjoy kaiseki in your private dining room, then move to the record room for music and a drink. A treatment or massage can add a deeper sense of rest.
The location also places you close to Izu-Kogen’s well-known natural sights. You can visit Mount Omuro, walk along Jogasaki Coast, explore the Hashidate Suspension Bridge area, or spend time around Lake Ippeki. These spots show the volcanic landscape, coastline, and highland scenery that make this part of Izu so distinctive.
The ryokan’s own sightseeing guide highlights places around Ito and Izu-Kogen, including coastal walks, museums, cafés, art experiences, Ito Marine Town, and local food stops. You can explore before check-in, after check-out, or between baths when you want a light outing.
Additional Features
Check-in begins at 2:30 p.m., and check-out is by 11:00 a.m. The ryokan is around five minutes by car from Izu-Kogen Station. A shuttle runs from the station during scheduled afternoon hours, with arrangements made around your arrival time.
Children below junior high school age cannot stay. You can stay from the first year of junior high school and above, which helps keep the atmosphere quiet and adult-focused.
Omuro no Mori Gyokusui suits you when privacy matters. With only nine rooms, private dining, an open-air hot spring bath in every room, ocean views, thoughtful wellness services, and access to Izu-Kogen’s coast and mountains, you can enjoy a stay that feels intimate, restful, and strongly connected to place.
