Overview

Stay only a few minutes on foot from Yugawara Station at Forest Resort Hotel Shiroyama, a compact hot spring ryokan with 19 rooms. Its central location makes arrival easy, while natural hot spring baths, seasonal dining, and a rooftop garden give you plenty of reasons to slow down once you are inside.

From the rooftop garden, you can look across the streets and hills of Yugawara towards the sea. Visit after bathing to enjoy the evening air, or return during the daytime for a clearer view across the town. On selected summer festival nights, you may also see fireworks above the coast.

Hotel Shiroyama combines the atmosphere of a Japanese ryokan with the convenience of a station-side stay. You can enjoy dinner in your room or a semi-private dining space, bathe in both Yugawara spring water and a radon bath, and use the property as a base for exploring Yugawara, Atami, Hakone, and the surrounding coastline.

Accommodation

The room collection includes traditional Japanese rooms, Western rooms, Japanese-Western rooms with beds and tatami, and rooms with private open-air hot spring baths. All accommodation is non-smoking, and Wi-Fi is available in the rooms.

The standard Japanese rooms offer either eight or ten tatami mats, futon bedding, and an engawa-style sitting area beside the window. These rooms give you a simple ryokan experience with space for tea and quiet time before your futon is prepared.

Shinonome is a 30-square-metre Western room with semi-double beds. It suits you when you prefer a fully Western sleeping space rather than tatami and futons.

The Japanese-Western rooms combine tatami with semi-double beds. Konpeki and Masoo include a shower booth, while Hanarokusho has a private bathtub. Usubeni and Tsuyukusa also combine tatami, beds, and a private shower area.

Eleven rooms include ReFa equipment, such as upgraded hairdryers, hair straighteners, and shower heads. The exact products depend on your chosen room.

Several rooms give you your own natural hot spring bath. Biroudo, Awabenifuji, Mizuasagi, Shikon, Nadeshiko, and Anzu combine beds and tatami with a private outdoor onsen. Ai offers an eight-tatami Japanese area, a bed, and an open-air bath, while Koto provides a ten-tatami room, an engawa-style sitting space, and a private outdoor bath.

The private room baths use Yugawara hot spring water, allowing you to soak whenever you wish without following the shared bathing schedule. Selected upper-floor rooms also include Simmons beds, Nespresso coffee machines, and additional ReFa equipment.

Your room includes a television, refrigerator, kettle, tea set, safe, towels, yukata, slippers, toiletries, and a washlet toilet. The exact bathroom arrangement differs by category, so choose a room with a shower, bathtub, or private onsen according to your needs.

Dining

Dinner follows a seasonal Japanese and Western kaiseki style prepared with seafood from the nearby coast, mountain ingredients, vegetables, fish, and meat. The menu changes every few months so that the dishes reflect the current season.

Shiroyama Beef Stew is one of the signature dishes. It has been served since the property opened and continues to appear in the standard dinner course. Its rich sauce adds a Western element to the otherwise Japanese meal.

Seasonal menus may also include sashimi such as tuna, horse mackerel, sea bream, shrimp, or shellfish. Warm dishes can feature local pork, seafood, vegetables, tofu, or fish prepared with seasonal sauces and garnishes.

Additional dishes can be arranged in advance. Choices may include a whole simmered kinmedai, grilled spiny lobster, a sashimi boat, beef steak, grilled turban shell, or freshly prepared horse mackerel tataki.

Dinner is normally served in your room, allowing you to eat privately without moving to a restaurant. Selected renewed room categories use a semi-private dining area instead, so your meal location depends on the accommodation plan you reserve.

Breakfast is served in the restaurant or banquet hall. The Japanese set includes rice, soup, small dishes, and dried horse mackerel, giving you a filling start before sightseeing or departure.

Onsen and Wellness

The bathing floor lets you experience two different forms of bathing: natural Yugawara Onsen water and a radon bath.

The natural spring is classified as a weakly alkaline sodium-calcium chloride and sulfate spring. It is clear and gentle against the skin, while its salt content helps your body retain warmth after leaving the water.

Traditional bathing indications include muscle and joint discomfort, neuralgia, stiff shoulders, sensitivity to cold, fatigue, minor cuts, and recovery after illness. The water is temperature-adjusted and maintained through heating, circulation, and filtration.

Separate indoor baths serve men and women. Each side also has an open-air bath, allowing you to feel the outside air while soaking. The bathing area includes a sauna and a waterfall-style bath for an additional way to unwind.

The radon bath uses the effects produced by radium ore. It gives you a different experience from the natural spring and is one of the property’s most distinctive bathing features.

The shared baths normally open from 12:00 until midnight and again from 6:00 until 9:30. You can visit after checking in, return after dinner, and enjoy another soak the following morning.

A reservable open-air bath gives you a private session of approximately 45 minutes. From its elevated position, you can look across Yugawara towards the distant sea. Reserve a session in advance because the number of available times is limited.

After bathing, you can sit in the renewed relaxation area and use the massage chairs while looking across the surrounding town.

Guests with Tattoos

If you have tattoos, use the reservable private open-air bath rather than the shared indoor bath, open-air bath, radon bath, sauna, or communal changing areas.

You can also choose a room with its own natural hot spring bath. This gives you private access to Yugawara Onsen throughout your stay without entering the shared bathing facilities.

Facilities

The rooftop garden gives you open views across Yugawara and towards the sea. It is a pleasant place to cool down after bathing, watch the evening sky, or view coastal fireworks when the event and weather conditions allow.

The lobby provides comfortable seating near the front desk. The restaurant overlooks the garden and opens for lunch and dinner, including service for people who are not staying overnight.

A kids’ room contains toys and soft animals for younger travellers. The large banquet hall supports meetings, celebrations, and group meals, with a stage and karaoke equipment available.

The shop carries local foods, drinks, and souvenirs. Women can choose from four colours of yukata, while the amenity bar provides cleansing oil, face wash, toner, and aftershave lotion. Toothbrushes and towels are prepared in your room.

Activities

Start with the rooftop garden, where you can enjoy the town and sea views without leaving the building. During the Yugawara coastal fireworks season, the rooftop may provide a view of the display.

For an easy local outing, visit the Yugawara Town Museum of Art, which displays works connected with artists who lived in or visited the area. Fudo Falls offers a short nature stop beside a 15-metre waterfall surrounded by greenery.

The Yugawara Plum Grove covers the slopes of Makuyama with thousands of red and white plum trees from February into March. Early summer brings the Firefly Festival and flower displays, while the Yassa Festival and coastal fireworks add energy to the warmer months.

Yugawara Station also gives you straightforward rail connections towards Atami and Odawara. You can continue towards Hakone for museums, mountain scenery, and the ropeway, or explore Atami’s seafront and seasonal fireworks.

Additional Features

Check-in begins at 14:00, with final arrival by 19:00. Check-out is by 10:00.

Yugawara Station is around two to three minutes away on foot, so you do not need a station shuttle. Complimentary parking is available for 15 vehicles in order of arrival.

Wi-Fi is available in the rooms. Vending machines, massage services, parcel delivery, luggage assistance, and an AED are also available during your stay.