Overview

Shimoda Tokyu Hotel sits on a hill 56 meters above Oura Bay, giving you wide views of the Pacific Ocean and, on clear days, the Izu Islands on the horizon. You stay close to the center of Shimoda, but the hotel feels open and coastal, with sea air, garden paths, palm trees, and the sound of waves shaping the mood of your stay.

This is a resort hotel rather than a ryokan, but it still gives you a strong Japanese hot spring experience. You can soak in a sea-view open-air bath, enjoy Izu ingredients at the restaurant, walk down toward Nabetahama Beach, and return to a bright room where the ocean or mountains stay close to view. It works well when you want a coastal escape with easy access to Shimoda’s beaches, history, and nature.

Accommodation

Rooms at Shimoda Tokyu Hotel are designed around space, light, and scenery. You can choose from ocean-view suites, deluxe rooms, superior rooms, standard rooms, and Japanese-style rooms. All rooms are non-smoking, and many room types look toward Oura Bay, giving your stay a clear sense of place from the moment you open the curtains.

The suite rooms offer the most generous layouts. The Ocean View Suite is 68 square meters, the Ocean View Junior Suite is 62 square meters, and the Ocean View Junior Suite with View Bath is 86 square meters. These rooms suit you when you want more room to unwind and a stronger connection to the sea.

The Ocean View Deluxe Twin is 42 square meters, while Superior Rooms include 24-square-meter ocean-view twins and 35-square-meter balcony twins on lower and higher floors. Standard Rooms include ocean-view twins, balcony twins, mountain-view twins, and a mountain-view double. The Japanese-style rooms range from 37 to 49 square meters and suit you when you want tatami space, a softer floor layout, or more room to relax together.

Room features include TV, telephone, electric kettle, refrigerator, hair dryer, air purifier, warm-water washing toilet, safety box, tea set, slippers, bath towel, face towel, body soap, facial and hand soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrush set, shaver, hairbrush, cotton swabs, and nightwear. Loan items such as an iron, desk lamp, anti-slip bath mat, wheelchair, trouser press, mobile phone charger, and simple games are available in limited numbers.

Dining

Dining at Shimoda Tokyu Hotel brings Izu into your meal without making the experience feel stiff. Restaurant Ma Chere Mer Bansyo faces the lawn garden and the sea, and its style blends Japanese and Western cooking with a French base. The theme is a food journey through the Izu Peninsula, with seafood, local vegetables, and ingredients from across the region shaping the menu.

Dinner includes course meals and à la carte choices. The Bansyo dinner course highlights Izu ingredients such as Izu Ise ebi spiny lobster, Shimoda Port kinmedai, Fujisan salmon, sashimi, Izu miso, Minamiizu rice, Izu hiratake farm watercress, and seasonal vegetables. The Shiranami course offers a different style, replacing the spiny lobster element with kinmedai. Menus can change with the season and ingredient supply, so each stay can bring a slightly different taste of Izu.

Breakfast is served as the “Izu Breakfast” buffet at Restaurant Ma Chere Mer Bansyo. You can begin the day with ingredients from Izu and Shizuoka, including Shimoda dried fish, Amagi wasabi pickles, rice and vegetables from Minamiizu, freshly cooked kamameshi, small side dishes, nigiri sushi, and omelets. The dried fish changes depending on the season, and the small dishes may include items such as salted squid, grated whitebait, homemade tamagoyaki, and green vegetables with white dressing.

For a quieter break during the day, Lounge Blue Nattier looks out toward the sea and palm trees. You can stop for coffee, TWG tea, light meals, or weekend afternoon tea, making it a pleasant place to pause between the beach, the bath, and your room.

Onsen and Wellness

The hot spring bath is one of the hotel’s strongest pleasures. You soak on the first floor in a bath area with an open-air bath overlooking the sea. From the outdoor bath, you can look down toward Oura Bay and, when the weather is clear, see the Izu Islands across the horizon. At night, the open-air bath feels especially peaceful, with the sky, palm leaves, and ocean air around you.

The spring water is a simple spring, clear and scentless, with a soft feel on the skin. It is associated with relief from rheumatic conditions, movement-related discomfort, nerve-related concerns, nervousness, and fatigue recovery. Bathing hours are 2:00 PM to midnight and 5:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

The men’s and women’s baths are fixed. The men’s open-air bath uses hinoki wood, while the women’s open-air bath uses natural stone. A small sauna is available only in the men’s bath, and there is no cold-water bath. Face towels, body soap, shampoo, conditioner, hair dryers, and skincare items are provided in the bath area, while bath towels should be brought from your room.

For deeper relaxation, you can book treatments at the relaxation salon Arômes de Bonheur. Treatments use 100% pure essential oils, and the salon is located on the first floor next to the women’s bath area.

Guests with tattoos

No tattoos are allowed in the onsen area.

Facilities

Shimoda Tokyu Hotel gives you the facilities you need for an easy coastal stay. The garden pool opens during the summer season and is set among palm trees in the hotel garden. It measures 20 meters by 9 meters, with a children’s pool area, and you can use it before check-in or after check-out when the pool is operating. From the poolside, a path continues toward Nabetahama Beach, making it easy to move between the water, the garden, and the coast.

The hotel also has a garden with benches and ocean views, the Shimoda Marche shop for local products, souvenirs, seafood items, clothing, and travel goods, plus on-site parking for regular cars and group buses. Free Wi-Fi is available, all rooms are non-smoking, and there is one smoking area inside the building. The hotel also offers accessibility support items, environmental initiatives such as Green Coin and Green Card programs, and a free shuttle bus from Izukyu-Shimoda Station.

Activities

Shimoda is made for slow coastal days and active outdoor time. From the hotel, you can walk toward Nabetahama Beach, explore Wakanoura Promenade, join sea activities such as SUP around Oura and Nabetahama, or follow walking routes connected to the Izu Peninsula Geopark. The marine season begins around Golden Week and continues into late September, when the sea becomes warmer and clearer.

You can also shape your stay around flowers, history, and local scenery. Shimoda has seasonal walks for cherry blossoms, hydrangeas, daffodils, and aloe flowers, along with routes connected to Cape Tsumekizaki, Ryugu Sea Cave, Kisami Ohama, Tago Beach, Akanejima, and Cape Tarai Promenade. If you want a quieter day, you can simply walk, bathe, sit in the lounge, and let the sea view do most of the work.

Additional features

The hotel is located at 5-12-1 Shimoda City, Shizuoka. From Izukyu-Shimoda Station, the free shuttle bus takes about 6 minutes and does not require a reservation. If you drive, parking is available on site, with space for 80 regular cars and 4 group buses. Standard car parking is free for overnight stays.