Overview

Hotel New Mitoya brings you into the hot spring calm of Akiu Onsen, known as Sendai’s inner retreat. You stay surrounded by seasonal nature, away from the rush of the city, with spacious rooms, generous baths, and warm ryokan-style hospitality. The main appeal is the bath experience: you can enjoy 16 bathing spaces across three large bath areas, using the historic waters of Akiu Onsen.

Accommodation

You can choose from bright, open rooms in four main areas: Shiraumetei, Kobaitei, Shin-Shiraumetei, and Shin-Kobaitei. The style ranges from traditional Japanese rooms to mixed Japanese-Western layouts and special rooms with more space to unwind.

Kasugabeni is a semi-open-air bath room with a relaxed Western-style layout. You can stretch out on the sofa and enjoy a more resort-like mood during your stay.

Musashino gives you a refined Japanese setting with a calm, elegant feel. It is a good choice when you want a more classic ryokan atmosphere.

Yaeasahi offers a Japanese-style design with a fresh, contemporary feel. You can enjoy a quiet room atmosphere and your own semi-open-air hot spring bath.

Gosho-beni, Kasugano, Miyoshino, Tsuki no Katsura, and Shirakaga are special rooms with layouts that include Japanese rooms, living areas, or twin-bed spaces depending on the room. Tsuki no Katsura also includes a massage chair.

Japanese-Western Room gives you both a Japanese room and twin beds. The room is designed so you can move between the bedroom, bathroom, and toilet by wheelchair, though there is a step when moving into the Japanese room.

Shin-Shiraumetei, Kobaitei, and Shiraumetei are standard rooms where you can enjoy a spacious Japanese-style stay with yukata, tatami-style relaxation, and a simple ryokan rhythm.

Dining

Your dinner focuses on seasonal ingredients and local flavor, with dishes made from both seafood and mountain produce. In the dining venue Omoi no Mama, you can enjoy a semi-private setting, seasonal appetizers and sashimi, and a prix fixe style where you choose two main dishes after you sit down. Example main dishes include beef sirloin steak, grilled beef tongue, and simmered kinmedai.

Breakfast is a Japanese-Western buffet with more than 30 menu items. A freshly cooked dashimaki omelet is highlighted as a popular breakfast item.

You can also dine at Iwashimizu, a garden-facing restaurant on the second floor, where the meal experience centers on seafood and mountain ingredients.

Onsen and Wellness

You can enjoy three large bath areas: Suishinkyo, Tsukikyuden, and Ume no Sho. Together, they offer 16 bathing spaces, including indoor baths, open-air rock baths, ceramic baths, hinoki barrel baths, water baths, and sauna facilities in selected bath areas. The bathing areas rotate by gender, so the experience may change during your stay.

The spring quality is sodium chloride spring water. The baths use Akiu Onsen water, a historic hot spring long associated with “Natori no Miyu” and counted alongside Arima and Dogo in Japan’s traditional “three famous hot springs.”

You can also reserve one of three private rental baths after arrival: Sakurakagami, Gyokuei, and Ryuho. Reservations are handled at the front desk on the day of your stay.

For deeper relaxation, the third-floor esthetic salon Kayoi Komachi offers aroma treatments, body care, foot care, head care, and Thai-style relaxation.

Guests with Tattoos

Because you can soak in a private onsen inside selected room types, you can enjoy the onsen regardless of tattoos.

The public bath is not available for use if you have tattoos.

Facilities

Hotel New Mitoya includes a spacious first-floor lobby, the garden-facing lounge Hana no Toki, a courtyard area, and the small Kura Art Museum, which displays Japanese ceramic works.

You can also use the dining venue Ume no Sato, meeting and convention rooms, the shop, karaoke room Time Capsule, and the seasonal pool facility in the Annex area. The pool facility includes a 25-meter heated pool, outdoor children’s pool in summer, wave bath, bubble bath, whirlpool bath, walking bath, and dry sauna. For 2026, the pool is scheduled to operate from July 17 to August 31.

Free parking is available for 400 vehicles, and a free shuttle bus from Sendai Station is available by advance reservation.

Activities

Akiu gives you easy access to nature, crafts, and cultural stops. You can visit Akiu Sato Center for local events, hands-on workshops, rental bicycles, and foot baths. At Akiu Traditional Craft Village, you can see work from nine craft studios and try activities such as painting kokeshi dolls or chopsticks.

For nature, you can explore Akiu Otaki Waterfall, a nationally designated scenic spot, or walk around Rairaikyo Gorge, where the Natori River has carved dramatic rock formations through Akiu stone.

You can also visit Sendai Kaleidoscope Museum, Glass Studio Gen, Sendai Astronomical Observatory, Yagiyama Zoological Park, Yagiyama Benyland, and Sendai City Museum.

Additional Features

• 16 bathing spaces across three large bath areas
• Sodium chloride spring water
• Semi-open-air hot spring baths in selected rooms
• Three private rental baths available by same-day reservation
• Dinner with seasonal seafood and mountain ingredients
• Japanese-Western breakfast buffet with more than 30 items
• Dining venues Omoi no Mama, Iwashimizu, and Ume no Sato
• Esthetic salon Kayoi Komachi
• Garden-facing lounge Hana no Toki
• Karaoke room Time Capsule
• Seasonal pool facility in the Annex area
• Shop and meeting rooms
• Free parking for 400 vehicles
• Free shuttle bus from Sendai Station by advance reservation