Echigo Yuzawa Onsen | Popular hotels and Ryokan (Japanese inn) based on reviews!

Located in the center of Yuzawa Onsen town, it is highly recommended for its location, which makes it easy to visit the hot springs and eat your way around! It is also a 2-minute walk from Echigo Yuzawa Station, making it easily accessible. We enjoyed visiting the hot springs in independent guest cottages building, which is filled with garden atmosphere. There is also an open-air bath. For meals, we had a delicious Buffet made with carefully selected ingredients in the restaurant, which also has a live kitchen.

For dinner, you can enjoy a creative kaiseki meal made with seafood sashimi delivered directly from Niigata Port, Japanese beef, sticky pork, and seasonal vegetables. The sweet sake served at the end is also exceptionally delicious. In the morning, a special Japanese breakfast is served with many small dishes of local cuisine, and you won't be able to stop having second helpings of the freshly cooked koshihikari rice. There is a large public bath with free-flowing hot spring water, a garden bath, and a cypress bath, each of which has a large rock bath, two open-air baths, and an indoor bath. There is also a private bath with an indoor bath and an open-air bath, but this is available for a fee (1,000 yen for 45 minutes). The baths are open 24 hours a day. Water is not added or heated, but only the large indoor bath uses a circulator for hygienic reasons.

Hotel Futaba boasts three different open-air baths. You can enjoy the sound of the river or the starry sky from the open-air bath, making you feel as if you have the nature of Echigo Yuzawa all to yourself. Meals are appealing, including kaiseki（a traditional Japanese multiple course meal ）made with seasonal Niigata ingredients, and breakfast where you can enjoy local rice straight from the source, which is fitting for a rice-growing region. You can experience plenty of hospitality even with a plan that falls within the 15,000 yen budget, and if your budget allows, we recommend upgrade your dinner to enjoy wagyu beef and luxurious seafood.

This is Ryokan (Japanese inn) with natural hot springs. The hot spring is a simple sulfur spring with many beneficial effects, and you can enjoy a pleasant bath while looking at the Echigo mountain range. For dinner, we had a traditional banquet of local cuisine made with plenty of local ingredients, and we also enjoyed Echigo Mochi Pork and Niigata Wagyu Beef.

I recommend this hotel, which is part of the popular Dormy Hotel chain. Dinner was a Japanese banquet with salt-grilled rosy seabass, and was very luxurious and delicious, with plenty of Japanese beef, local sake, and mountain village delicacies. There was also an open-air bath in the large communal bath and a private open-air bath, which was full of atmosphere and had a great view, so we enjoyed a refreshing and luxurious time.

The maisonette-type room has a bedroom, open-air bath, indoor bath, and dining room on the first floor. The living room has a deck on the second floor. Both breakfast and dinner are brought to the dining room, so you can eat in your room. You can enjoy a pleasant conversation while eating without worrying about others. For dinner, you can enjoy a creative kaiseki meal that combines Japanese and French cuisine, using carefully selected seafood and mountain produce from Niigata, cooked with high-quality cooking techniques and artistic presentation, so the taste will never disappoint from the appearance.