Overview
Kawana Hotel gives you a classic seaside resort stay on the Izu Peninsula, with views across Sagami-nada, the Izu Islands, and, on clear days, Mount Fuji and the distant coastline beyond the bay. Opened in 1936, the hotel keeps the atmosphere of a grand coastal retreat, with historic architecture, wide lawns, ocean-facing rooms, and two famous golf courses shaped by the natural land.
This is a strong choice when you want a resort stay with history, sea views, golf, hot spring bathing, and elegant dining. You can spend the day on the Fuji Course or Oshima Course, relax at Brisa Marina, enjoy French or Japanese cuisine, and take in the same coastal scenery that made Kawana one of Japan’s classic resort hotels.
Accommodation
Kawana Hotel offers rooms in the New Main Building and Main Building, with ocean-view rooms, garden-view rooms, suites, twin rooms, king rooms, quartet rooms, triple rooms, and a large Japanese-style or Japanese-Western room for group stays. Ocean-view rooms look toward Sagami-nada and the Izu Islands, while garden-view rooms face the hotel’s greenery and seasonal scenery.
The New Main Building includes rooms such as the Ocean View Suite, Ocean View Executive Twin, Ocean View Corner Twin, Ocean View Superior Twin, Ocean View Superior Quartet, Ocean View Twin, Ocean View King, Garden View Superior Twin, and Garden View Twin. These rooms offer a resort-style stay with wide windows, comfortable beds, and a choice between sea or garden scenery. The Ocean View Executive Twin has two wide beds and can also be set in a Hollywood twin style, while the Ocean View Superior Quartet uses trundle beds, making it useful for family stays.
The Main Building carries more of the hotel’s original classic character. Room choices include the Ocean View Imperial Suite, Ocean View Premium Twin, Ocean View Deluxe Twin, Ocean View Luxury Twin, Ocean View Triple, Garden View Twin, and the spacious Main Building Japanese-style or Japanese-Western room. The Imperial Suite is the largest option, with a wide balcony and strong ocean views. The Japanese-style or Japanese-Western room combines twin beds with a tatami area and futon bedding, making it a good option when you want more space for family or group travel.
Rooms include Wi-Fi, bath and shower space, washlet toilet, TV, refrigerator, towels, nightwear, and standard bath items. Some room types are non-smoking, while selected garden-view rooms may allow smoking. When you need a non-smoking stay, choose a non-smoking room category.
Dining
Dining at Kawana Hotel reflects its long resort history. The Main Dining room serves French cuisine with house-made herbs, seasonal sauces, and recipes connected to the hotel’s early years. It is the best choice when you want a more formal dinner with classic service and a refined atmosphere.
The Grill offers a more casual dining setting for breakfast and lunch, with Japanese and Western options. Sun Parlor Lounge gives you tea, coffee, hotel-made cakes, light meals, and wide views toward the golf course and Pacific scenery. The lounge is especially appealing when you want a quiet daytime pause with the sea in front of you.
Inakaya serves Japanese cuisine in a traditional countryside-style building with more than 300 years of history. This space gives you a different feeling from the main hotel, with Japanese warmth, seasonal dishes, and a more relaxed setting. The Main Bar offers drinks in a nostalgic, classic-hotel atmosphere, making it a good place to end the evening after dinner.
Onsen and Wellness
Brisa Marina is the hotel’s hot spring and wellness facility, available only for overnight stays. It includes indoor baths, open-air baths, private baths, saunas, relaxation rooms, and views that connect the bath area with the sea and natural scenery around Kawana.
The hot spring quality is calcium-sodium sulfate-chloride spring water, classified as hypotonic, weak alkaline, and high-temperature. The water is associated with support for neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, and fatigue recovery. Bathing hours begin shortly before sunrise or at 6:00 in the morning, depending on the sunrise time, then continue through the morning. The baths reopen in the afternoon and stay open until midnight.
Brisa Marina also has private baths, including TSUKI and UMI, where you can enjoy a more personal bathing space with ocean views. Dry sauna and steam sauna facilities add another way to warm the body after golf, tennis, swimming, or a day around Izu.
Guests with Tattoos
Kawana Hotel does not allow tattoos in the Brisa Marina hot spring and spa facilities. This applies to the shared baths and the private hot spring baths.
Facilities
Kawana Hotel has the Fuji Course and Oshima Course, Brisa Marina hot spring facility, tennis courts, fitness room, summer swimming pool, souvenir shop, billiard room, observation deck, library, mahjong room, restaurants, lounge, bar, room service, and relaxation treatment rooms.
The Fuji Course is one of Japan’s most famous seaside golf courses and has been selected among the world’s top golf courses. It is available only when you stay at Kawana Hotel. The Oshima Course is one of the oldest existing golf courses in Japan and offers a more relaxed seaside golf experience with views over Sagami-nada.
The tennis courts use natural grass and face the sea, while the fitness room includes standard training machines and equipment designed to support golf movement. The summer pool area includes larger and smaller pools, making it useful during warm-season stays. The library, billiard room, mahjong room, observation deck, and souvenir shop add more ways to enjoy the hotel between meals, golf, and bathing.
Activities
Golf is one of the main reasons to stay at Kawana Hotel. You can play the Fuji Course, designed by C.H. Alison, or the Oshima Course, a historic seaside course built along the Izu coastline. Both courses make strong use of the natural land, sea views, and open coastal setting.
You can also spend time at the outdoor pool in summer, play tennis on natural grass courts, walk through the hotel gardens, relax in the library, enjoy afternoon tea at Sun Parlor Lounge, or visit the observation deck for ocean views. The hotel also works well for photography, anniversaries, and slow resort stays where you want the setting itself to be part of the experience.
For sightseeing beyond the hotel, the Izu Peninsula gives you coastal drives, scenic viewpoints, hot spring towns, and access to Ito and nearby nature spots. After a day out, you can return to the hotel for Brisa Marina, dinner, and a quiet evening by the sea.
Additional Features
Kawana Hotel is best for you if you want a classic Izu resort with ocean views, historic architecture, two seaside golf courses, hot spring bathing, French and Japanese dining, a lounge, a bar, seasonal pool access, tennis, and a calm coastal atmosphere.
Check-in starts at 15:00, and check-out is at 11:00. You also have Wi-Fi, room service during evening hours, private bath options at Brisa Marina for non-tattooed bathers, relaxation treatments, a fitness room, golf shop, souvenir shop, library, billiards, mahjong, observation deck, summer pool, tennis courts, and resort activities tied closely to Kawana’s history and sea-facing location.
