Overview
Nagaragawa Seiryu Hotel is a riverside hotel in Gifu City, set by the Nagara River with views of Mount Kinka and the surrounding mountains. You stay in a place shaped by the idea of “SATO-SAN-SEN,” where local mountain, river, and village culture come together through food, bathing, craft, and simple hands-on experiences.
This stay gives you an easy way to enjoy Gifu’s Satoyama and Satokawa culture without leaving the hotel. You can soak in the top-floor panoramic hot spring bath, taste local rice and ayu, spend time by the irori hearth, join a craft or food activity, and look out toward the river and mountains between each part of your stay.
Accommodation
You can choose from Western-style rooms, Japanese-style rooms, Japanese-Western rooms, and rooms on the Luxury Floor. Many rooms look toward the Nagara River, Mount Kinka, or the surrounding mountains, so the landscape stays close throughout your stay. Inside your room, you can enjoy Mino-Ibi tea selected by Zuisoen, a long-established tea merchant from Gifu.
The Luxury Floor is on the second floor and has a more resort-like feel, with smooth wood flooring, Simmons beds, dining tables, 40-inch televisions, and bathrooms placed by the window. The Luxury Twin is 40 square meters, while the Luxury Deluxe Twin is 50 square meters. These rooms are reached by stairs only and are not available for children, so they suit you best when you want a quiet adult stay with a view-bath style bathroom.
The Western-style rooms include Standard Twin, Deluxe Twin, Suite Twin, Double, and Single. The twin and suite rooms use Nihon Bed Silky Pocket mattresses, and the larger twin rooms give you generous space for resting after sightseeing. The Suite Twin is a 50-square-meter room with views of the Nagara River scenery, while the Double gives you a large bed and private bathroom in a compact layout. The Single includes helpful items such as a massage chair, trouser press, and humidifying air purifier, but it does not have a private bathroom, so you use the 8th-floor large bath.
The Japanese-style rooms give you a tatami stay with futons and the fresh scent of igusa rush grass. Japanese Room A is a 12.5-tatami room with a view of the Nagara River, while Japanese Rooms B and C offer two-room layouts that work well when you want more space. The Japanese-Western rooms combine tatami space with twin beds on wood flooring, using Nihon Bed Silky Pocket mattresses for a softer sleep style while still giving you room to stretch out on tatami.
Your room includes Wi-Fi, a refrigerator, safe, kettle, yukata, towels, and basic bath items. All rooms have washlet toilets, and you can move around the property in your yukata.
Dining
Dining at Nagaragawa Seiryu Hotel centers on Gifu’s mountains, rivers, and local food culture. Meals highlight ingredients such as ayu from the Nagara River, Hida beef, Hida pork, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, Gifu-grown rice, local vegetables, eggs, and game. The cooking keeps a Japanese foundation while adding creative presentation, so each meal feels connected to both tradition and the present day.
Dinner is served at Irori and Japanese Cuisine Shofuan, where the irori hearth adds warmth, sound, and aroma to the meal. You can choose from three dinner courses, with dishes such as charcoal-grilled ayu, Hida beef, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, seasonal plates, and dashi-based Japanese dishes. The restaurant also serves drinks and wine, so you can enjoy the meal slowly with local flavors and a view toward the Nagara River and mountains.
Breakfast is a Japanese meal built around Gifu rice. You can enjoy three types of rice grown with the clear water of the Nagara River area, served buffet style, along with small side dishes arranged so you can taste a little of many local flavors. Gifu also has a local custom of eating chawanmushi at breakfast, so this steamed egg custard becomes one of the most memorable morning dishes.
Lunch is also available at the restaurant. On weekdays, you can enjoy a half buffet with a monthly main dish, sweets, and around 30 rice accompaniments. On weekends and holidays, lunch courses feature Gifu ingredients such as Hida beef, Hida pork, and ayu. The cafe space, Irori and Sweets gururi, serves afternoon tea-style sweets and drinks with a Gifu tea theme.
Onsen and Wellness
The top-floor panoramic large bath looks out toward the Nagara River and Mount Kinka. The bath uses natural hot spring water from Ikeda Yuge Onsen in Gifu’s Ibi District, known for its smooth “beauty bath” feel. The water is transported to the hotel, then heated and diluted for bathing.
The spring quality is a sodium bicarbonate spring with low tonicity, alkaline quality, and a low source temperature. This type of water contains bicarbonate components that help remove oils and impurities from the skin, leaving it feeling smooth after bathing. The bath is also associated with relief from tiredness, cold sensitivity, muscle pain, joint pain, neuralgia, and recovery after illness.
You can use the large bath from 6:00 to 9:00 and again from 15:00 to 24:00. The men’s and women’s bath areas switch between morning and afternoon, so you can enjoy both views depending on your bathing time. The sauna is open from 15:00 to 23:00 and uses repurposed Mino-Ibi tea powder from Zuisoen, filling the space with a gentle local tea aroma. Water servers are placed in the changing rooms, so you can hydrate before and after bathing.
Day-use bathing is available from 13:00 to 21:00, with final entry at 20:00, depending on the day’s operating schedule. Shampoo, conditioner, and body soap are provided in the bathing area.
Guests with Tattoos
Nagaragawa Seiryu Hotel has shared top-floor public hot spring baths. Tattoos and body art are not accepted in these shared bathing areas. Use the private bathroom in your room instead when your room type includes one.
Facilities
Nagaragawa Seiryu Hotel has a top-floor panoramic hot spring bath, sauna, Irori and Japanese Cuisine Shofuan, Irori and Sweets gururi, a cafe lounge, an irori hearth space, a tea room, private dining rooms, banquet rooms, meeting and exhibition spaces, wedding facilities, and free parking for 90 cars. The restaurant includes table seating, teppanyaki seating, tatami seating, and private rooms, while the cafe lounge has large windows and 50 seats for a slower afternoon break. The parking area includes covered parking and standard EV chargers.
Activities
You can enjoy many SATO-SAN-SEN experiences inside the hotel. Some activities require advance booking, so plan ahead when you want to join a specific one. You can try gohei mochi by the irori hearth, blend seasonal tea, make a Mino washi paper fan, paint a Gifu lantern, drink herbal tea after bathing, taste grilled Nagara River ayu with local sake, or compare three types of carefully selected Gifu rice at breakfast.
Seasonal and limited activities add more ways to enjoy the hotel’s local culture. You may find bonfire experiences, handheld fireworks, wood chopping, flint fire-starting, SUP on the Nagara River, fishing-related experiences, and nearby river play ideas. These activities help you connect with the river, food, craft, and countryside traditions that shape this part of Gifu.
You can also explore the wider area from the hotel. Gifu Castle and Mount Kinka, Nagara River cormorant fishing, Kawaramachi’s old streets, local craft shops, and riverside walks are all natural additions to your stay. The hotel works well when you want both quiet time indoors and easy access to Gifu’s river culture.
Additional Features
Your stay includes free Wi-Fi, free parking, hot spring bathing, sauna access, yukata use inside the hotel, local tea in the room, cafe and restaurant spaces, private dining options, wedding and event facilities, and seasonal hands-on experiences. Check-in begins at 15:00, and standard check-out is by 10:00. Luxury Floor stays include check-out by 11:00. The hotel is about 25 minutes by car from Gifu-Kakamigahara Interchange, about 45 minutes by taxi from Gifu-Hashima Station, and about 20 minutes by taxi or 25 minutes by bus from JR Gifu Station or Meitetsu Gifu Station. The nearest bus stop is Nagara Shidami, about one minute on foot from the hotel.
