Overview

Ryokan Meiji gives you a stay shaped by hot springs, literature, and the old streets of Yumura Onsen in Kofu, Yamanashi. This is a ryokan connected to Dazai Osamu, who stayed here twice for writing. During his time here, he worked on pieces including Josei, Seigi to Bisho, and Udaijin Sanetomo.

At Ryokan Meiji, you stay in Yumura Onsen, a historic hot spring town in Kofu with stories that reach back to Takeda Shingen and Kobo Daishi Kukai. The area still carries the feeling of an old healing retreat, with temples, local legends, and quiet streets that invite you to slow down after your bath.

Accommodation

Ryokan Meiji’s rooms have all been renovated with a Western-style design, giving you a calm place to rest after the baths or a walk through Kofu. All rooms are non-smoking, and selected rooms can connect with the room next door. Basic rooms include a shower booth, while selected room types include a private open-air bath.

Room with Private Open-Air Bath – Deluxe Twin
This is the highest-grade room type at the ryokan. You can enjoy a spacious layout, a quiet mood, and your own private open-air bath. Some rooms can connect with another room, making this option helpful for family travel across generations.

Room with Private Open-Air Bath – Superior Twin
This room gives you more space and a refined setting, with an open-air bath where you can feel the seasonal air while you soak.

Room with Private Open-Air Bath – Standard Twin
This compact twin room gives you a simple, comfortable stay with the added pleasure of your own open-air bath. It suits you well when you want a private bathing experience without choosing the largest room.

Grand Twin
This room has a wheelchair-friendly layout and a shower room with a seat. The calm color palette helps you relax with ease.

Deluxe Twin
This room gives you a roomy twin layout and a relaxed setting for travel with family or friends. Some rooms can connect with the room next door.

Superior Twin
Located on the second floor, this twin room offers a relaxed atmosphere and enough space for a comfortable stay with family or friends. Some rooms can connect with another room.

Standard Twin
This simple twin room gives you a clean, easy place to rest. It works well for couples, friends, or business travel. Some rooms can connect with another room.

Dining

Dinner is not served directly at Ryokan Meiji. Instead, you can enjoy Kofu’s local food scene, with recommended dinner options nearby. Dinner plans with transport are also available for selected partner restaurants.

You can choose from options such as kaiseki-style dining with Koshu beef and seasonal ingredients at Tokiwa Hotel, a steak course centered on Koshu beef and Koshu wine at Penthouse Koshu, a dinner buffet at Kofu Kinenbi Hotel, soba kaiseki at Rakusui-en, or local Yamanashi dishes such as hoto, Kofu torimotsu-ni, horse sashimi, and local sake at Shubo Goccho.

Breakfast gives you a thoughtful start to the day. You can enjoy a buffet supervised by fermentation researcher and cook Maiko Shindo, with Yamanashi ingredients and fermented foods such as miso, shio-koji, fish sauce, sake lees, and rice vinegar. Sample dishes include simmered kiriboshi daikon and hijiki with tomato, grilled atsuage with shio-koji, Wine Ton pork grilled with sake lees and miso, curry-flavored okara salad with edamame, and seasonal dishes such as spring nanohana harusame, summer fried eggplant with cucumber, autumn mushroom marinade, and winter grilled daikon with yuzu miso.

Onsen and Wellness

You can bathe in Yumura Onsen at the restored public bath Washi-no-Yu. This bath has long been connected with the local community and takes its name from a legend about an eagle that revealed the hot spring.

The bath area includes one indoor bath and one open-air bath for each gender. The indoor bath uses soft lighting and stonework, while the open-air bath lets you enjoy the outside air, trees, and the changing sky.

The spring quality is sodium chloride-sulfate spring, low-tonic alkaline hot spring water. Listed bathing benefits include support for fatigue recovery, sensitivity to cold, neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, minor burns, cuts, and chronic skin conditions.

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

Washi-no-Yu: Restored public bath with indoor and open-air baths.

Dazai Osamu Reference Room: Displays include photos from the time, first editions, letters, and works by his daughter, Yuko Tsushima.

Restaurant and Lounge: Breakfast is served in a bright restaurant, and the space becomes a lounge outside breakfast hours. You can enjoy coffee, soft drinks, peach jelly, and ice candy in the lounge.

Shop: You can buy local souvenirs, including wine made with Yamanashi grapes.

Original Samue: You can wear the ryokan’s original samue with a Dazai silhouette while relaxing inside the property or walking around the hot spring town.

Free Wi-Fi: Available in the rooms.

Free parking: 15 spaces are available with advance reservation.

Activities

You can use Ryokan Meiji as a base for literature, history, nature, and hot spring walks around Kofu. Nearby highlights include Yumura-yama, where a trail behind the ryokan leads to a light hike with views of Mt. Fuji and the Kofu Basin, and Enkoin / Shiozawa Temple, known for its Yakuyoke Jizo and annual festival.

For history, visit Takeda Shrine, dedicated to Takeda Shingen, or Maizuru Castle Park, where you can walk around the former Kofu Castle site and enjoy views from the stone walls. For nature, Shosenkyo Gorge offers dramatic rocks, clear streams, walking paths, and autumn colors.

If you want to follow Dazai Osamu’s connection with Yamanashi, visit Tenkachaya, linked to Fugaku Hyakkei, Misaka Pass, or Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature, where you can see materials related to writers connected with the region.

You can also plan day trips to the Fuji Five Lakes, Oshino Hakkai, Aokigahara Forest, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Koshu Yumekoji, or FUJIYAMA Twin Terrace.

Additional Features

• Located in Yumura Onsen, Kofu, Yamanashi
• Connected with Dazai Osamu’s writing stays
• Restored public bath Washi-no-Yu, reopened August 1, 2025
• Indoor and open-air public baths
• Sodium chloride-sulfate spring, low-tonic alkaline hot spring water
• Selected rooms with private open-air baths
• Shop KAGAJI
• All rooms non-smoking
• Breakfast buffet focused on Yamanashi ingredients and fermented foods
• Dinner plans with selected nearby restaurants available
• Dazai Osamu Reference Room
• Restaurant and lounge
• Shop with local souvenirs
• Free Wi-Fi
• Free parking with advance reservation