Overview
Hotel Shikinoyakata Nasu is a Japanese-style auberge in the Nasu Highlands of Tochigi. You stay at Nasu Miyabi no Sato, a highland retreat with a traditional gate, warm wood architecture, garden views, hot spring baths, and French dining made with local Nasu ingredients.
The atmosphere feels quiet, polished, and personal. This is not a busy family resort. You come here for a slower stay with private-feeling spaces, in-room hot spring bathing, thoughtful food, and the green setting of Nasu around you.
The hotel has 30 rooms, each designed with a different layout and character. Every room includes its own bath with the hotel’s “Bijin no Yu” hot spring water, so you can soak in your room without waiting for shared bath hours.
Accommodation
You choose from 30 rooms across several room styles, including standard twin rooms, Japanese twin rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, detached special rooms, and a larger special room with both indoor and open-air bathing.
Takumi A is a Western twin room with wood flooring, two Simmons beds, a sofa area, balcony views toward the garden, and a private hinoki bath. Takumi B gives you a Japanese twin layout with tatami, two Simmons beds, a sofa area, balcony views, and a private hinoki bath.
Miyabi A is a Japanese-Western room with twin beds, a tatami room, a sofa area, balcony, and private hinoki bath. Miyabi B gives you a wider tatami-style room with twin beds, a sitting area, balcony, and a small round hinoki bath. Miyabi C has a more Western-style feel, with a bedroom, living room, balcony, and private ceramic bath.
Suisyo is a detached special room with a living room, Japanese room, twin bedroom, balcony, veranda space, and an oval hinoki bath. This room gives you more space and a deeper sense of privacy.
Kinbai is the largest special room, with a living room, Japanese room, twin bedroom, hinoki bath, open-air ceramic bath, stone entrance area, and wood deck terrace. This room works well when you want the most spacious stay and the strongest private-bath experience.
All rooms include Simmons beds, a coffee mill for freshly ground coffee, original room wear, and artwork by Shokan Goma. Loan items include a heater, humidifier, aroma diffuser, trouser press, iron and ironing board, DVD player, desk lamp, phone charger, conversion adapter, wheelchair, shogi set, Go set, and umbrellas. Some items are limited, so request them in advance.
Some rooms allow stays with small dogs. Dog-friendly rooms are for small dogs up to 6 kg, with up to two dogs per room. Prepared items include a pet cage, ceramic food bowl, toilet sheets, waste bags, waste bin, sticky roller, dustpan, and bucket. The grounds also include a dog run area called Wan-chan Hiroba.
Dining
Dining at Hotel Shikinoyakata Nasu focuses on French cuisine with Japanese hospitality. The hotel describes itself as a “Washin Auberge,” where you enjoy Nasu’s seasonal ingredients through French cooking.
Dinner is served at French Restaurant Parterre on the 2nd floor. You dine in a private room, with both Western-style and Japanese-style private spaces available. This gives your meal a calm, personal feel without the noise of a large dining hall.
The kitchen uses ingredients from local contracted producers. These include vegetables from Kaneko’s vegetable farm, produce from Hyakusho Hatakeyama, organic salmon raised in the clear waters of Oku-Kinu, and seasonal vegetables from the Shibui family of Yui. The menu changes with the season and ingredient supply.
Dinner may follow a kaiseki-French or creative French style, bringing together French technique and local Nasu ingredients. A wine cellar is available, and a sommelier can help match wine to your meal.
Breakfast is also served in the dining setting. Depending on your plan, you may enjoy fresh bread and local-style Western breakfast dishes.
Onsen and Wellness
Hot spring bathing is one of the main reasons to stay here. Every room has a private bath with “Bijin no Yu,” a soft hot spring known for its smooth feel on the skin. Room baths include hinoki baths, ceramic baths, oval hinoki baths, and open-air ceramic baths depending on the room type.
The hot spring is a sodium-magnesium chloride, sulfate, and bicarbonate spring. It is listed as a hypotonic neutral spring. The water has a faint hot spring color and scent, with a soft texture that leaves your skin feeling smooth.
You can also use the shared semi-open-air baths reserved for Hotel Shikinoyakata Nasu stays. Naka no Yu is the women’s bath, and Godake no Yu is the men’s bath. Both look toward the Japanese garden, so you can enjoy the season while you soak.
The listed hot spring benefits include support for dry skin, cuts, cold sensitivity, peripheral circulation concerns, and depressive states.
There is no private rental bath, but every room has its own hot spring bath, and you can use the shared semi-open-air bath during your stay. You can also use the baths at the adjacent sister property, Hotel Morinokaze Nasu, including its top-floor bath with views toward the Nasu mountain range.
Guests with Tattoos
If you have tattoos, you can use the baths when the tattoo is fully covered with a dedicated cover sticker or similar covering. The hotel asks you to cover the full design before bathing. Alternatively, soak in the privacy of your own private onsen in room.
Facilities
Hotel Shikinoyakata Nasu has a traditional gate, a reception building with a high-ceilinged lounge, garden-facing spaces, shared semi-open-air baths, a French restaurant, a lounge and bar counter area, a massage and treatment room, a souvenir shop, garden walkways, and access to the adjacent fruit park.
The lounge has large windows facing the inner garden. You can enjoy a welcome drink there during lounge hours. The space also displays artwork by Shokan Goma, giving the arrival area a strong sense of place.
La Saison is the lounge and bar counter space. The lounge opens during the morning and afternoon. Evening bar service is listed, but it may be suspended, so check before relying on it.
The treatment room offers esthetic and massage services in a private room. Advance reservation is recommended.
The souvenir shop sells Nasu products and local gifts. The grounds also connect with Fruit Park Morinokaze, where you can enjoy seasonal fruit picking and vegetable harvesting when available.
The hotel is fully non-smoking, with a smoking room provided. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the property. A wheelchair can be borrowed for free with advance request, and the building is designed with barrier-free movement in mind.
Activities
You can spend your stay quietly inside the hotel. Soak in your room bath, walk through the garden-side corridors, enjoy a private French dinner, sit in the lounge, book a treatment, and return to your bath before sleeping.
Outside the hotel, you can explore the Nasu Highlands. Nearby places include Nasu Teddy Bear Museum, Nasu Stained Glass Museum, Emile Gallé Museum, Nasu Onsen Shrine, Sesshoseki, Nasu Kogen Observatory, Nasu Ropeway, and Tsutsuji Suspension Bridge.
You can also enjoy the wider Nasu area through hiking, art museums, sightseeing drives, golf, seasonal flowers, and highland nature. The hotel works well as a base for Nasu, Nikko, Utsunomiya, and the Shirakawa area.
Additional Features
Check-in starts at 15:00, and checkout is at 11:00. The hotel accepts stays from junior high school age and above, so younger children cannot stay at this property. If you travel with younger children, the adjacent Hotel Morinokaze Nasu may be a better option.
The hotel has free parking, with space for 132 cars. EV charging is available, with two standard chargers.
If you arrive by train, you can use the reservation-only free shuttle between JR Nasu-Shiobara Station and Nasu Miyabi no Sato. The shuttle must be booked by phone by the day before your stay. If you arrive by car, the nearest exits are Nasu IC and Nasu Kogen Smart IC, both about 15 minutes away.
Hotel Shikinoyakata Nasu suits you when you want a quiet Nasu stay with in-room hot spring bathing, private-room French dining, garden views, warm wood design, and a more grown-up atmosphere in the highlands.
