Overview

Oedo Onsen Monogatari Awara gives you an easy, lively hot spring stay in one of Fukui’s best-known onsen towns. You stay in Awara Onsen, often called the “back room of Kansai,” with hot spring bathing, buffet dining, and casual in-house entertainment all close at hand.

This is a ryokan-style hotel made for simple pleasures. You choose your yukata, head to the baths, enjoy a generous buffet, play table tennis, read manga, or spend the evening at karaoke. The mood is relaxed rather than formal, so it works well whether you travel as a couple, with family, or with friends.

The location also makes sightseeing easy. From here, you can explore Awara Onsen town, visit Tojinbo’s dramatic cliffs, spend time at Shibamasa World, or use the hotel as a comfortable base for discovering Fukui’s coast and local food culture.

Accommodation

You stay in a non-smoking room with a practical, relaxed layout. Room choices include Japanese-style rooms, Western-style rooms, and Japanese-Western rooms, with options in both the main building and annex building. Some rooms include an indoor bath, while others do not, encouraging you to make the large public baths part of your stay.

The Japanese-style rooms give you the classic onsen feeling, with tatami flooring and futon bedding already prepared in the room. Options include 8-tatami, 10-tatami, 12-tatami, 12.5-tatami, and larger 25-tatami layouts. These rooms are a good fit when you want floor space to sit, rest, and spend time together.

If you prefer beds, you can choose twin or triple rooms in the annex. Japanese-Western rooms combine tatami space with Western-style bedding, giving you more flexibility when you want both comfort and a ryokan atmosphere.

Room details vary by type, but many rooms include a washlet toilet, television, refrigerator, safe, air conditioning, towels, and basic bath items. Amenities such as toothbrushes and razors are available in shared amenity areas rather than placed in every room. Yukata are selected in the lobby, so you can choose one before heading to your room.

Dining

Dining here centers on a buffet that feels easy, generous, and fun. Dinner brings together Japanese, Western, and Chinese-style dishes, along with seafood and Fukui local flavors. You can take what you like, return for more, and shape the meal around your own appetite.

The dinner buffet includes popular items such as freshly fried tempura and nigiri sushi. Local-style dishes may include Fukui sauce katsudon and heshiko-inspired pizza during seasonal menu periods. Menus change with the season, so you may find different dishes depending on when you stay.

Breakfast is also buffet-style, with both Japanese and Western choices. You can start with rice, hot dishes, side dishes, bread, salad, curry, or lighter items before heading out for sightseeing or returning to the bath for a slow morning soak.

The buffet style makes the hotel especially comfortable when you travel with different tastes in one group. You do not need to agree on one course or one pace. You simply choose what looks good and enjoy the meal your way.

Onsen and Wellness

The baths are the heart of the stay. Oedo Onsen Monogatari Awara has indoor baths, garden open-air baths, and saunas for both men and women. The open-air baths include two styles: a stone rock bath with a grounded, natural feel, and a warm wooden-style bath that gives you a softer bathing mood.

The hot spring is a hypotonic, weakly alkaline cold mineral spring. The bath water is heated, diluted, circulated, and filtered for comfort and hygiene. It is associated with relief from concerns such as rheumatism, chronic skin conditions, neuralgia, and atopic dermatitis.

Bathing is available from early morning through midnight, with cleaning hours during the day. You can soak after check-in, return again before bed, and enjoy one more bath in the morning before departure.

A sauna adds another way to unwind. You can warm up, cool down, rest, and repeat at your own pace. The rhythm is simple and satisfying: bath, sauna, rest, meal, then another bath when you feel ready.

Guests with tattoos

If you have tattoos, you cannot use the large public baths unless the tattoos can be fully covered with the hotel’s designated cover stickers. The cover stickers are available for a fee. If the tattoo cannot be completely covered, you cannot use the public baths.

Facilities

Oedo Onsen Monogatari Awara has the kind of facilities that make the stay feel casual and easy. You can spend time in the lobby, browse the shop, visit the morning market, use the coin laundry, or enjoy the entertainment areas between baths and meals. The hotel has karaoke, table tennis, a manga corner, rental games, a game corner, vending machines, and child-friendly items such as baby food, children’s tableware, and children’s chairs.

The hotel also offers selectable yukata, so you can move through the building in a relaxed onsen style. Table tennis and karaoke are available for overnight stays, while the manga and game areas make it easy to fill quieter moments without leaving the property.

Parking is available on site, and a reservation-based shuttle connects the hotel with Awara Onsen Station and Awara Yunomachi Station. Free Wi-Fi is mainly available in the first-floor lobby area.

Activities

You can enjoy the hotel without planning much at all. Choose a yukata, soak in the baths, play table tennis, read manga, enjoy the buffet, visit the sauna, and let the day unfold at a gentle pace.

Outside the hotel, Awara Onsen town is easy to explore. You can walk around the hot spring area, visit local shops, or use the hotel as a base for nearby sightseeing. Tojinbo, Shibamasa World, the Echizen coast, and other Fukui attractions are good choices when you want to add a day trip.

Day-use bathing is also available, and there is a day-use option that combines bathing with the dinner buffet when reserved in advance. This makes the hotel useful for both overnight stays and shorter visits focused on bathing and food.

Additional features

Check-in starts at 3:00 PM, and check-out is by 11:00 AM. The hotel is located at 48-10 Futaomote, Awara City, Fukui Prefecture. From Awara Onsen Station, the hotel is about 10 to 15 minutes away by car or shuttle bus. The shuttle requires advance reservation.

The hotel has 95 rooms and on-site parking. The building is fully non-smoking, with a smoking area available on the first floor. If you drive in winter, prepare for snow or icy roads around the region.