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neilh6

5/5Tripadvisor· a year ago

We stayed in this lovely Ryokan for 2 nights . Our room with 2 large single beds was huge and included a large dining area for eating our evening meal on Tatami mats . The room had a view of the garden and was light and airy in a very quiet neighbourhood. |The Ryokan is well placed close to the local railway line - 2 mins walk away , the beach 5 mins and the town centre 10 mins away on foot . The temples and sights can be reached easily on foot or by using the local railway service . The staff were very friendly and gave excellent service . The evening meal and breakfast were a delicious array of Japanese food / many of the dishes with fish and beautifully prepared and presented vegetables and pickles . |It was a very relaxing place to stay at the end of a busy 4 weeks in Japan . There are 2 Onsens one for males and one for females which are also lovely - and quiet. The decor is traditional rather than modern .

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Bert Shimabukuro

4/5Google· 10 months ago

I wanted to stay in a ryokan with futons on tatami. This was just what I needed. this is a very JAPANESE experience. Breakfast will consist of fish, rice, and veggies. It was close to the station and just what I needed.

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Trip.com Member

4.5/5Trip.com· 10 months ago

The room is clean, the service is super good.Dinner is delicious here, out of expectation. Free carpark is provided.Public hot bath available, not onsen.

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GlobalCitizen2

4/5Tripadvisor· 8 years ago

This ryokan fits very well in its pleasant Kamakura neighborhood. It is well cared for and its attractive appearance on the outside extends into its reception area. The beach, shopping, sites, and local rail station are all within easy walks. Traditional Japanese breakfast at 8am served at table and chairs in a tatami mat room was very good, though I could have perhaps eaten a little bit more. The public onsen bath was about a 4-seater in the wash area but I never had any company. It certainly was a nice way to bookend a day, and was bit more roomy than the bathroom in our guest room. Staff were all courteous, friendly, and professional. We stayed in the older section of the Inn in one of the western style rooms. As we get older we spend less time on futons and more on beds. The room has everything you need: a sitting area with TV, a dining area with table, chairs, and refrigerator; a bed chamber with 2 beds; and a bathroom with sink/mirror, toilet, and little Japanese style separate bath tub and washing area/shower. Pretty good room, though a little cramped here and there. The problem was that it felt like you were staying at Grandma's house. Being almost 95 years old and located near the sea, there was an inevitable musty smell. Some of the wall paper seams had begun to split. The furniture was from an era, well, some folk might find it charming, but it did not quite work well enough for us to want to make a return visit,. We asked to take a peek at one of the newer Japanese rooms but none were available, they might be a better bet. Good neighborhood, good location, good staff, good food, and decent public bath, but the guest rooms would probably cause us to look for alternatives before returning.

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Singap0reTraveller

5/5Tripadvisor· 8 years ago

This place is in a nice quiet residential neighbourhood very near a train station. The beach and the Buddhist temples are a short hike away. So location is really nice. The room is huge by Japanese standards (I chose a Japanese style room) and service was impeccable. I have had better food in other ryokans but if you take the price into consideration, it is really rather good. So overall, I really like this place and taking everything into consideration, I think it's excellent.

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JasonManikel

4/5Tripadvisor· 10 years ago

We spent one night here in February, while on a two-week visit to Tokyo. I've stayed in many ryokan over the years, and this one was a solid choice. The location was great - just steps from a stop on the Eno-den triangle from Kamakura, quite close to the beach and many local sites, and in quite a nice, posh neighbourhood. We ate dinner at Matsubara-an, which turned out to be next door. The staff were pleasant and helpful - about what you'd expect anywhere in Japan. Not sure if they speak any English. Our room was quite nice. Very big, with a gorgeous view from its sunroom/sitting area. And it's own bath. (We didn't use it, preferring the shared baths, which were bigger.) I saw some complaints about the datedness of the furniture, the pillows, heater, etc, in another recent review. Not sure what that person was expecting. Clearly a first-time visitor to Japan. Our room was on par with most of the better Japanese-style inns I've visited before. Dated? Sure. Charming? Definitely! The baths, as I mentioned, were decent. Nothing special. Separate men's and ladies', and no chance of a couple being able to use one together. No outdoor baths. We didn't eat dinner there, but the breakfast was quite good. A traditional Japanese style. I doubt they have the option of a western breakfast. Overall, we definitely enjoyed our stay. But were a bit surprised at checkout. (My wife had booked the room.) While the inn ranked up there with other nice inns, it was also amongst the most expensive we've stayed in. We weren't disappointed, but might not have made the same choice, if we'd been paying more attention to price.

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silvia20003544

4/5Tripadvisor· 13 years ago

Me and my husband stayed there for one night there and it was a good experience. Location: location is very good, close to electric train station 1 mins , very close to beach 3 mins walk, a short pleasant walk away 5 min walk to Big Budda which is also the trail head for the hiking trail. It has easy access to convenient store and restaurants. Rooms: This Ryokan has private bathroom and toilet in each room, it has Japanese style room and western style room (which is an interesting combination to me). The room is spacious and comfortable. The hotel bath is standard Japanese bath. It has a big banquet room and it hosted a Japanese wedding reception when we checked in so I guess food must be really good :D Food: The food serviced (dinner and breakfast) were very nicely prepared, it may not the BEST Ryokan Japanese food we had but it is pretty good. Breakfast is nothing special so if you are staying for multiple days, there is no need to get breakfast and dinner for everynight. We will recommend this place to friends who come to visit, it is one of the most expensive hotel in Kamakura but if you want the authentic Japanese Ryokan experience in Kamakura, I think it certainly won’t let you down.

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alkimadrid

3/5Tripadvisor· 11 years ago

I have wondered what rating I should give to this hotel. It was better than expected but I would never stay there again! Let me explain: our japanese friends booked this hotel for us, to experience a typical japanese hotel. So I really hadn't looked into what this meant or how much it would cost until the time came to pay! So first the pros: It's clean, the rooms are very spacious and the staff is really, really, really polite and working towards making your stay a pleasant ones. If you like japanese style breakfast, they serve a huge variety. Now the cons: The pillows were very hard and uncomfortable, I had a headache from it and slept without a pillow using a jacket as one. Our room smelled of food and no matter how much I opened the windows and tried to make it go away it wouldn't, since the japanese breakfast is served and eaten in the rooms, so I guess the smell of fish and soup has stayed.Furniture is very used and outdated and the bathroom is really outdated and not nice to be in. The air heater made noise and never really warmed up the room. Extremely expensive! It cost as much as the Hyatt Regency in Hakone so for that price NO WAY I would stay there again. Another point to know is as soon as you enter the hotel you have to remove your shoes and wear the slippers provided. And then once you enter the room, you have to remove even those slippers and walk with socks. And once in the WC they have another pair of slippers left, that write toilet on them, and you use those for that part of the room.