Overview

Grand Lectore Yugawara gives you an all-inclusive hot spring stay in the green Kajiya area of Yugawara. The property reopened under its current name in February 2025, with a new focus on bathing, saunas, food, drinks, and indoor activities.

The hotel follows an “Infinite Living” concept. Your room provides a comfortable place to sleep, while the lounges, bathing areas, restaurant, garden terrace, and activity rooms become an extension of your living space. You can move between a natural hot spring bath, a sauna session, drinks in the lounge, games, and buffet dining without needing to plan each part of the day separately.

You stay around ten minutes by car from Yugawara Station. A reservation-only shuttle connects the station with the hotel, while a local bus stops around ten minutes away on foot. The hotel stands inland among wooded hills rather than directly beside the coast, although you can reach the Yugawara waterfront and other local sights by car.

Accommodation

You sleep in a Western-style room with mattress beds rather than a traditional tatami room with futons. Room choices range from compact twin rooms to a large junior suite with its own open-air hot spring bath.

The Junior Suite with Open-Air Bath measures 56.6 square metres and sits on the second floor. This is the largest room category and the only junior suite of its kind. You have three mattress beds, with another bed available for a fourth person, as well as a private indoor bathroom, shower, and open-air bath supplied with natural Yugawara Onsen water.

The Deluxe Room with Open-Air Bath measures 42.5 square metres and also sits on the second floor. You have three mattress beds, a private shower, an indoor bathroom, and your own open-air hot spring bath. This room works especially well when private bathing matters or when you want to soak without following shared-bath hours.

The standard Deluxe Room also measures 42.5 square metres and provides four mattress beds, making it a practical choice when you travel with family or friends. This category has a private shower but does not have an indoor bath or open-air bath.

Superior Rooms measure approximately 28.3 square metres and provide three mattress beds. Standard Rooms begin at approximately 24 square metres and include two beds, with an extra bed available in selected rooms. These categories include private shower rooms rather than bathtubs.

Every room includes a washlet toilet, air purifier, refrigerator, television, safe, electric kettle, glasses, cups, towels, hairdryer, and free Wi-Fi. You can collect a yukata, two-piece relaxation wear, toothbrush, razor, hairbrush, cotton products, shower cap, skincare items, and other toiletries from the amenity area near reception. All rooms are non-smoking.

Dining

You eat dinner and breakfast at Smoked Kitchen MAKIBI on the second floor. Both meals follow a buffet format, allowing you to choose the dishes and portions that suit you rather than following a fixed kaiseki menu.

Dinner highlights seasonal ingredients from Yugawara, Kanagawa, and the surrounding region. A wood-fired grill adds smoke and depth to selected meat, fish, and vegetable dishes, while the open buffet setting lets you see food being prepared and served throughout the evening. The exact dishes change according to the season and ingredient availability.

Drinks form part of the dinner experience. You can choose from soft drinks as well as selected alcoholic options such as draft beer, highballs, liqueurs, and mixers. The self-service format lets you pair different drinks with your food at your own pace.

Breakfast also takes place at MAKIBI and follows a buffet style. You can build a lighter meal before sightseeing or enjoy a fuller breakfast before spending more time in the baths and lounges.

The restaurant displays information for the eight major allergens. Because both meals use a shared buffet, the kitchen does not prepare individual allergy menus or guarantee separation between ingredients. You need to check the displayed information carefully when you have food allergies.

Onsen and Wellness

Grand Lectore Yugawara uses natural Yugawara Onsen water. The spring is classified as an alkaline simple hot spring that is hypotonic, alkaline, and naturally hot. The source temperature is listed as 45°C, with a pH of 8.5. The water is clear, colourless, almost tasteless, and without a strong smell.

The listed bathing qualities include support for tired muscles, joint stiffness, sensitivity to cold, poor circulation, fatigue, stress-related discomfort, and general recovery. Its gentle character makes it easy to enjoy after travelling, walking, or spending time in the sauna.

The two large public baths are named Yuugen and Tougen. Yuugen uses dark colours and subdued lighting, while Tougen has a brighter white interior. Men and women change bathing areas during the stay, giving you the opportunity to experience both designs. Each public bath also has a dry sauna.

For private bathing, you can use one of three family baths named Ashigari, Tohi, and Kafuchi. These baths use the same natural Yugawara Onsen water and do not require an advance reservation. You check the availability display and enter when a bath is open.

The mixed-gender Spa Sauna Manyo gives you a more extensive wellness experience. You need to wear your own swimsuit or the sauna clothing provided by the hotel. The area contains a standard dry sauna, a lower-temperature healing sauna, a cold sauna, and a view sauna. You can also use a natural hot spring bath, cold-water bath, footbath, showers, and an outdoor cooling area.

The standard and view saunas provide intense heat, while the healing sauna offers a gentler temperature. The cold sauna gives you an alternative to entering the water bath after heating your body. Together, these spaces let you create your own cycle of heat, cooling, bathing, and rest.

You can also use the massage chairs near the main bathing area. The shared baths provide shampoo, conditioner, body soap, skincare products, and hairdryers, while towels should be brought from your room.

Guests with Tattoos

Visible tattoos are not permitted in the shared public baths or other shared bathing and spa areas. You can use one of the three private family baths, or choose the Junior Suite or Deluxe Room with a private open-air hot spring bath.

Facilities

The Main Lounge provides drinks and snacks throughout the day and evening, giving you a comfortable place to sit before dinner or relax after bathing. The Garden Terrace brings you closer to the surrounding greenery, and occasional events may include a small fire, toasted marshmallows, or handheld fireworks.

The Tatami Lounge gives you a floor-seating area for board games and quiet time. The Active Lounge includes karaoke booths, darts, table hockey, table football, putting games, and a nostalgic physical-measurement corner. The Play Room has an illuminated table-tennis table, while the Hobby Room combines tatami seating with manga and tabletop games.

You can also spend time in Infinite Living, which overlooks the open main lounge, or visit Infinite Space for views towards the surrounding hills. A mahjong room, meeting rooms, event spaces, and a multi-purpose lounge with a large screen and kitchen equipment support group stays and company retreats.

The hotel also provides an amenity area, massage chairs, vending machines, an ice machine, coin-operated laundry facilities, two elevators, luggage storage, free Wi-Fi, and several designated smoking spaces outside the rooms. Parking and electric vehicle charging points are available on the grounds.

Activities

You can fill much of your stay without leaving the hotel. Start with a drink in the lounge, move between the hot spring and saunas, challenge your group to table tennis or darts, sing karaoke, read manga in the Hobby Room, or spend a quiet hour playing board games on the tatami.

The mixed Spa Sauna Manyo works well when you want to enjoy a wellness experience together rather than separating into men’s and women’s bathing areas. Later, you can use a family bath privately or return to the public bath after the bathing areas change.

Outside the hotel, Yugawara offers forest walks, hot spring culture, art, coastal scenery, and seasonal flowers. You can visit Manyo Park, explore the town’s connection with the ancient Man’yōshū poetry collection, or continue towards Fudo Falls and the wooded areas of Oku-Yugawara.

In late winter and early spring, Yugawara Plum Grove covers the slopes below Mount Makuyama with around 4,000 red and white plum trees. During other seasons, you can explore local hiking routes, visit Yugawara Art Museum, or travel towards the coast for views of Sagami Bay.

Additional Features

Check-in begins at 3:00 p.m., and check-out is by 10:00 a.m. You can leave your luggage at reception before your room is ready or after checking out.

A reservation-only shuttle operates from Yugawara Station. You can also reach the hotel by taxi, local bus, or a walk of approximately 30 minutes from the station. The local bus journey takes around seven minutes to Miyawatari Bridge, followed by a walk of approximately ten minutes.

All rooms are non-smoking, with designated smoking spaces available elsewhere on the property. Baby cots and baby futons are not provided, but you can request items such as a baby bath, child-sized yukata, indoor clothing, slippers, toothbrushes, dining chairs, and a nappy bin. Pets cannot stay at the hotel, although certified assistance dogs are accepted with advance arrangements.

Grand Lectore Yugawara suits you when you want more than a room and a public bath. Natural hot spring water, four sauna styles, private family baths, open-air-bath rooms, buffet dining, drinks, games, and comfortable lounges give you the freedom to make the stay as restful or active as you prefer.