Overview

At Ooedo Onsen Monogatari Premium Kinugawa Kanko Hotel, you stay beside the Kinugawa River with forested mountains and the deep river gorge close at hand. The interiors draw inspiration from the surrounding landscape, bringing natural textures and warm tones into the lounge, restaurant, rooms, and bathing areas.

You can begin your stay with a drink in the forest-themed Premium Lounge, change into your chosen yukata, explore the large hot spring baths, and finish the day with a generous Japanese, Western, and Chinese buffet. The hotel completed a major renewal in July 2024, refreshing key areas while keeping the relaxed atmosphere of a classic Kinugawa hot spring break.

Accommodation

You can choose from Western-style twin rooms, Japanese rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, upgraded rooms, and a Junior Suite. Every room is non-smoking, although the view, bathing facilities, and layout depend on the room category you select.

Economy Western Twin rooms provide a simple layout with two beds and a private indoor bath. These rooms do not have a scenic outlook, making them a practical choice when you plan to spend most of your time exploring the hotel and surrounding area.

Standard Japanese-Western rooms combine twin beds with an eight or ten-tatami seating and sleeping area. Some include a private indoor bath, while others have a shower. The tatami gives you extra space to sit together, enjoy tea, or use additional futons when travelling with family.

The large Standard Japanese Room has a 17.5-tatami layout and comes with either an indoor bath or shower, depending on the room selected. Superior rooms include Japanese-style low beds, twin layouts, and updated interiors, while the Superior Japanese-Western Room combines beds with a 7.5-tatami area.

For a more spacious stay, the Junior Suite Special Room combines twin beds with a ten-tatami Japanese room. Selected rooms face the Kinugawa gorge, allowing you to watch the colours of the mountains change with the season.

Your room includes free Wi-Fi, an LCD television, an empty refrigerator, an electric kettle, a personal safe, a hairdryer, and a toilet with a warm-water washing function. Bathroom facilities differ by room, so choose carefully when you prefer a bathtub rather than a shower.

Dining

The Ooedo Mitsuboshi Buffet places premium seafood, meat, live cooking, and desserts at the centre of your dining experience. The spacious restaurant uses flowing lines, rock-like features, and natural colours to reflect the mountains and river gorge outside.

At dinner, you can enjoy sashimi and sushi prepared with seafood such as natural bluefin tuna, sea bream, and salmon. The live kitchen serves freshly prepared dishes including Kuroge Wagyu loin cooked in a sukiyaki style, beef steak, and hot tempura. Seafood steamed at your table and changing seasonal dishes add more choice throughout the year.

Dessert includes seasonal fruit, strawberry shortcake, other cakes, and Häagen-Dazs ice cream. Fair menus change with the season, so the exact seafood, meat dishes, and sweets can differ according to your travel dates and ingredient availability.

Breakfast continues the Mitsuboshi Buffet experience with Japanese and Western dishes. You can create your own special seafood rice bowl with toppings such as bluefin tuna, minced tuna, scallops, salmon, small shrimp, whitebait, cod roe, and seaweed. Grilled dried fish, including kinmedai when available, gives you a traditional Japanese start to the morning.

You can also enjoy miso-marinated pork shoulder, eggs Benedict, egg dishes, bread, fruit, and other breakfast favourites. Seasonal ingredients and market availability may change individual dishes.

Onsen and Wellness

The two large bathing areas, Keicho no Yu and Kirifuri no Yu, rotate between men and women. By bathing before and after the rotation, you can experience eight indoor, open-air, and semi-open-air baths during your stay.

Large rock baths create a bold setting inspired by the surrounding gorge, while river-facing baths let you relax with the sound and scenery of Kinugawa close by. The open-air baths in Keicho no Yu look towards local landmarks including Fureai Bridge and the large demon artwork on its staircase. Other bathing spaces include reclining and characterful shaped baths, giving each soak a different atmosphere.

The water is an alkaline simple hot spring classified as hypotonic, alkaline, and naturally hot. Its gentle character makes it suitable for moving between the baths without the water feeling overly heavy. Bathing indications include insomnia and autonomic nervous system imbalance. The water is heated, supplemented with added water, circulated, and filtered.

The large baths and open-air baths open from 15:00 to midnight and again from 05:00 to 10:00. The saunas open from 15:00 to midnight and from 07:00 to 10:00. Opening times can change during cleaning or severe weather.

For a private soak, you can reserve one of two paid bathing rooms for 90 minutes. Kinu no Yu includes a semi-open-air bath where you can feel the outdoor air without entering a shared bathing space. Nikko no Yu combines a private bath with a stone sauna designed for two people. Both private baths include a balcony and relaxation space and are available only when you stay overnight.

Tattoo Policy

If you have a tattoo, you can use the shared baths only when every part of it is completely covered with the hotel’s designated cover seals. The seals are available for a fee. You cannot enter the communal bathing areas when a tattoo is too large to cover fully.

Facilities

The Premium Lounge gives you a comfortable place to settle in after arrival or cool down after your bath. Its forest-inspired design combines warm wood, greenery, large windows, and a striking chandelier. You can enjoy complimentary draft beer, lemon chuhai, highballs, coffee, tea, soft drinks, and ice pops during your stay. The lounge opens from 14:00 to 22:00 and from 07:00 to 10:00, with alcohol served during the afternoon and evening period.

You can choose your preferred yukata at the complimentary yukata corner before exploring the hotel. The entertainment facilities include free table tennis and a manga corner, along with paid karaoke rooms and arcade games.

The wellness area offers professional treatments including full-body care, foot reflexology, and oil lymphatic massage. Paid high-performance massage chairs provide another easy way to relax after sightseeing or bathing.

Families can use baby beds in the changing rooms and bathing equipment designed for younger children. Children’s yukata are also available. The shop sells regional products and travel souvenirs, while vending machines and a post-bath rest area add convenience during your stay.

Additional facilities include complimentary building-wide Wi-Fi, meeting space for larger groups, an accessible toilet, designated smoking areas, and EV charging stations. The hotel also provides a large complimentary car park.

Activities

Fureai Bridge is close to the hotel and gives you views along the Kinugawa gorge. Its staircase is decorated with a large demon painting connected with the area’s name, making it one of the easiest local photo stops to add to your stay.

You can visit Trick Art Pia Nikko for interactive optical-illusion exhibits or spend the day at Edo Wonderland Nikko Edomura, where reconstructed streets, performances, costumes, and attractions introduce you to Edo-period Japan. Tobu World Square displays detailed miniature versions of famous buildings and heritage sites from around the world.

For more time outdoors, head to Ryuokyo Gorge for walking trails, unusual rock formations, forest scenery, and views over the river. You can also travel into central Nikko to explore its World Heritage shrines and temples.

Back at the hotel, you can enjoy drinks in the lounge, choose a yukata, play table tennis, browse the manga collection, dine at the Mitsuboshi Buffet, and finish the evening in the open-air baths. The next morning, create your seafood bowl at breakfast before continuing your journey through Nikko and Kinugawa.

Additional Features

Check-in begins at 15:00, and check-out is by 11:00. The hotel is around 14 to 15 minutes on foot from Tobu Kinugawa-Onsen Station. A paid local dial bus also connects the station with hotels around the hot spring district.

Complimentary outdoor parking is available for approximately 200 vehicles and does not require a reservation. Some parking areas are separated from the main entrance, and there is no hotel shuttle between the car park and the building.