Overview
Hill Hotel Sunpia Iga gives you a relaxing onsen stay in Iga City, with natural hot spring bathing, local food, leisure facilities, and easy access for both sightseeing and business travel. You can reach the hotel by car from Osaka or Nagoya in about 90 minutes, making it a convenient resort-style escape without going far into the mountains.
You can spend your time soaking in Basho no Yu, tasting Iga Beef and local sake, trying ninja-themed activities, using the leisure facilities, or joining seasonal events. The hotel also works well for group stays, training camps, banquets, and family travel.
Accommodation
You can stay in Western-style rooms, Japanese-style rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, business rooms, or a barrier-free room. The hotel has 52 rooms in total, and all rooms include a bath and toilet. The room setup works for business stays, sightseeing, trips home to Iga, and group travel.
Standard Twin: A 21㎡ Western-style twin room. This is a simple and comfortable choice when you want a clean hotel-style stay with easy access to the onsen.
Deluxe Twin: A 24㎡ twin room with more space than the standard twin. An extra bed can be prepared for this room type, so it works well when you want a little more room.
Japanese Room: A 10-tatami room with a hiroen sitting area. This room gives you a more Japanese-style stay, with tatami flooring and space to relax after bathing.
Japanese-Western Room: A room with twin beds and a 6-tatami Japanese area. This is a good choice when you want both beds and tatami space in the same room.
Business Twin: A 19㎡ room for a simple work or overnight stay.
Business Double: A 16㎡ room suited to one or two people.
Barrier-Free Room: A room designed with wheelchair use in mind, giving you a more accessible stay inside the hotel.
Dining
At Restaurant Hanagokoro, you can enjoy meals built around the taste of Iga. The restaurant focuses on local ingredients, including Iga Beef, vegetables from nearby farms, Iga rice, and local sake from Iga and Nabari.
Dinner with the overnight meal plan is served as kaiseki at Restaurant Hanagokoro. You can choose from four dinner plans, each with a different meal style. The Da名 Kaiseki Plan is the most premium option, with Iga Beef, spiny lobster, and abalone. The meal example includes Iga Beef shabu-shabu, abalone steak, spiny lobster salad, seasonal tempura, Iga Beef loin cut steak, and Iga rice.
The Iga Seasonal Kaiseki Plan features Iga Beef loin shabu-shabu with homemade ponzu, seasonal sashimi, simmered dishes, grilled fish, Iga vegetable carpaccio, tempura, and Iga rice. The Hanabasho Kaiseki Plan focuses on seasonal and local ingredients, with Iga Beef sukiyaki as the main dish. The Shinobi Kaiseki Plan offers a more casual Japanese course with local ingredients, seasonal tempura, domestic beef, and Iga rice.
Breakfast is a Japanese and Western buffet served at Restaurant Hanagokoro from 7:00 to 9:00, with final reception at 8:30. You can also use the restaurant for lunch, tea time, light meals, and dinner.
The restaurant seating uses partitions for a semi-private feel. For groups of four or more with a qualifying meal budget, you may be able to use the private Ume no Ma or Momo no Ma rooms free of charge, subject to availability. All restaurant seats are non-smoking.
Onsen and Wellness
Basho no Yu is the hotel’s natural hot spring, drawn from its own source. The water is an alkaline simple spring.
The bath area has Japanese-style and Western-style bathing spaces, and they switch daily between men and women. The Japanese-style bath includes an open-air bath, indoor large bath, waterfall bath, lying bath, body shower, dry sauna, cold bath, and finishing bath. The Western-style bath includes an open-air bath, indoor large bath, jacuzzi, medicinal bath, body shower, dry sauna, cold bath, and finishing bath.
The bathing area has no steps from the building entrance to the changing room and bath area, and handrails are installed, so wheelchair users can access the facility with assistance.
Guests with Tattoos
Guests with tattoos are not permitted to use the facility.
Facilities
Restaurant Hanagokoro: Main restaurant for breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, light meals, local ingredients, Iga Beef, Iga rice, and local sake.
Basho no Yu: Natural alkaline simple hot spring with Japanese-style and Western-style bath areas that switch by day.
Steak & BBQ Grill Terrace: A grill restaurant in Nigiwai Park Iga where you can enjoy Iga Beef and other Mie brand meats. It offers teppan grill courses and BBQ courses.
Kitchen Factory Mie no Mori: A food production facility connected to the hotel’s kitchen team, preparing catering meals and deli items using ingredients from Mie.
Karaoke Lounge Avanti: A lounge-style karaoke space where you can sing, talk, and enjoy drinks.
Banquet Rooms: Small and large private rooms are available for celebrations, company events, parties, and meals, with spaces for groups from small gatherings up to 180 people.
Meeting Rooms and Halls: Seven Japanese and Western-style rooms are available for meetings, lectures, training, and events, with capacity up to 210 people.
Wedding Facilities: You can hold a Shinto-style wedding ceremony inside the hotel, with reception support available.
Shop Corner: The shop in front of the main building front desk sells Sunpia Iga original products and local Iga items.
Leisure Pool: A seasonal summer pool with a 120-meter flowing pool, two water slides, and a children’s pool.
Tennis Courts: Five outdoor tennis courts with night lighting. Tennis school sessions are also held.
Dog Run: A reservation-only outdoor dog run with separate areas by dog size, plus a visitor area for dogs that need time to adjust. Vaccine proof is required.
Dog-Friendly Stay Building: A dedicated accommodation building for stays with dogs, set in separate container-style units.
Camper Van and Car Stay Area: A reservation-only parking area for overnight stays in your vehicle, with access to the restaurant and natural hot spring. A 100V power supply is available for an extra fee.
Brewery Lab Bashoan: A craft beer and kombucha workshop in Nigiwai Park Iga. You cannot tour the inside at present, but you can see the fermentation tanks from outside. The craft beer “Awa no Oto” and IGA KOMBUCHA are served in hotel dining outlets and sold at the shop.
Fitness Club Vitaleza: Located on the second floor of the onsen building.
Activities
You can try ninja-themed activities, including shuriken throwing and ninja costume rental. You can also wear the costume out into the castle town area, making it a fun way to enjoy Iga’s ninja heritage.
In summer, you can enjoy the leisure pool with its flowing pool, water slides, and children’s pool. In colder seasons, the pool area changes into a fishing area for rainbow trout, with a safe footing setup and toilets nearby.
You can also play tennis on the five outdoor courts, join events at Nigiwai Park Iga, use the dog run, enjoy BBQ, or plan a group stay with sports, meetings, meals, and onsen time all in one place.
Additional Features
- Free shuttle bus (weekdays only) from Uenoshi Station
- Free parking and EV charging
- Barrier-free certified facility
- Accepts large group reservations and training camps
- Event booking available for year-end parties and more
- Online shop and seasonal food promotions
- Official social media updates through LINE, Instagram, and Facebook
