Hanamaki Onsen Hotels and Ryokan: Where to Book
Hotel Koyokan is a convenient first choice in Yumoto, Hanamaki Onsen’s main resort area. Overnight guests can reserve a free station shuttle, then bathe in its open-air rock pool.
Yumoto and its springs
Yumoto’s four hotels stand together on the Dai River. Koyokan, Hotel Hanamaki and Senshukaku use clear, tasteless and odorless simple spring water. Kashoen has its own sodium sulfate–chloride spring. Each hotel has men’s and women’s public bathing areas. Day visitors pay to use one hotel’s baths.
All four hotels welcome children, generally restrict public-bath use by guests with tattoos, and run a free station shuttle by advance reservation. The room from-prices are for two adults sharing. Rooms and meal plans differ between hotels.
| Hotel | From-price | Private baths | Meals by plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel Koyokan | from US$140 per room / night | Heated-water room bath | Buffet or Japanese set meal |
| Hotel Hanamaki | from US$148 per room / night | Heated-water room bath; reservable hot-spring baths | Buffet or Japanese set meal |
| Hotel Senshukaku | from US$198 per room / night | Heated-water room bath | Buffet or Japanese set meal |
| Kashoen | from US$435 per room / night | In-room hot-spring bath in selected rooms | Kaiseki |
Koyokan
Koyokan’s outdoor bathing area has a rock pool, pot baths and a terrace where you can cool down between soaks. Every guest room faces the mountains. The Japanese-Western room has checkerboard Ryukyu tatami beside Western twin beds. The 10-tatami Japanese room sleeps up to five guests. The five-guest category has its own rate. Room baths contain heated water; the public baths use hot-spring water.
The dinner buffet features Iwate ingredients and regional flavors. After a bath, you can stroll through the rose garden or along the streamside path around the resort.
Hotel Koyokan
Mountain-view rooms and outdoor rock and pot baths in Yumoto’s resort grounds.
8.6 · 1340 Agoda reviews
Hotel Hanamaki
At Hotel Hanamaki, the bedrock open-air bath in Hanamaki no Yu overlooks the landscape through the seasons. Day visitors pay the following admission fees:
- Weekdays: ¥1,200 (about US$7.60).
- Weekends, public holidays and designated special dates: ¥1,500 (about US$9.50).
Manten no Yu is an open-air bath in the garden. Manten no Yu has its own admission charge and closes in winter.
Hotel Hanamaki’s private family baths have Shigaraki pottery tubs overlooking small courtyard gardens. A private bath costs ¥3,300 (about US$21) per room for 45 minutes. Day visitors also pay public-bath admission.
All 102 guest rooms face the mountains. The Rose Suite has a living room, a Western room and a Japanese-style twin room. For dinner, Hotel Hanamaki serves buffets and seasonal Japanese set meals, depending on the plan.
Hanamaki Onsen Hotel Hanamaki
Reservable Shigaraki pottery baths overlook small courtyard gardens.
8.4 · 254 Agoda reviews
from US$148 per room / night
Private family baths cost extra.
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Kashoen
Kashoen stands among hills covered with Nanbu red pines. From the window-side veranda of the Japanese-style room, you look onto the pines. The hinoki-cypress open-air bath overlooks the Dai River. In the semi-open-air-bath twin room, you bathe in hot-spring water in a private hinoki tub. The large windows beside the tub can be opened.
Kashoen serves seasonal kaiseki, a dinner of several courses. You begin with an appetizer, followed by sashimi and warm dishes. Kashoen serves breakfast in a dedicated dining room.
Hanamaki Onsen Kashoen
A hinoki-cypress open-air bath looks onto the Dai River.
9.3 · 173 Agoda reviews
from US$435 per room / night
A private-bath room and kaiseki dinner depend on the selected room and meal plan.
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Senshukaku
Senshukaku’s Senshu no Yu is a spacious communal bathing area with abundant water. You can soak in pot baths or stand beneath waterfall-style massage showers. The Japanese-modern room has twin beds on Ryukyu tatami. Senshukaku has 182 rooms, the most in Yumoto’s main hotel group. Opposite Senshukaku’s entrance, torii gates lead to Hanamaki Onsen Inari Shrine.
For dinner, Senshukaku serves a seasonal Japanese set meal with Maesawa Ogata Farm beef in a sansho-pepper hotpot. At breakfast, the buffet includes freshly baked bread, Hanamaki-grown rice, Iwate vegetables and yogurt.
Hotel Senshukaku
A spacious communal bath with waterfall-style massage showers and pot baths.
8.3 · 168 Agoda reviews
Room plans, meals and bath rules
Koyokan, Hotel Hanamaki and Senshukaku offer dinner-and-breakfast plans as well as room-only stays. For an overnight visit, the usual arrival and departure times are:
| Hotel | Check-in | Checkout |
|---|---|---|
| Koyokan | 15:00 | 10:00 |
| Hotel Hanamaki | 15:00 | 10:00 |
| Senshukaku | 15:00 | 10:00 |
| Kashoen | 15:00 | 11:00 |
You can bathe before dinner after an afternoon check-in.
In the Shidotaira valley, Hotel Shidotaira’s 12.5-tatami Japanese room sleeps up to six guests. The six-guest category has its own rate. Hotel Shidotaira generally refuses public-bath use by guests with tattoos, but allows a small tattoo up to 10 × 10 cm.
Yusen Shidate accepts guests aged 12 and over. Checkout at Yusen Shidate is 11:30.
Getting there
The free guest shuttle serves overnight guests at the Yumoto hotels. Reserve before arrival. The Tohoku Shinkansen stops at Shin-Hanamaki Station; local trains stop at Hanamaki Station.
Arriving at Shin-Hanamaki: board at west exit stop 3. Afternoon shuttles take about thirty minutes to the resort.
Arriving at Hanamaki: board at the east exit. Afternoon shuttles take about twenty minutes to the resort.
Returning in the morning: shuttles can stop at Iwate Hanamaki Airport by reservation. Reserve the airport stop as well as your seat.
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