Onsen Hotels
Onsen Hotels
We will be in Japan October 2025. We’ve travelled Japan before, but this is our 1st time since I became paraplegic. We will be travelling Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka and are looking for an accessible Onsen hotel. My wish is an Onsen hotel with private bath and Viking menu anywhere along that train line or close to it (Hiroshima, Izu, Hakone etc). If necessary, I’ll give up bath in room for Buffet choice ( my daughter isn’t very ‘exploratory’ when it comes to food).
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Good morning.
First of all, how many days do you plan to stay in each city? As you probably know, staying in Izu or Hakone and going sightseeing in Tokyo would be quite tiring. Because of the distance.
Hot springs are not often found in big cities, but are found a little further away. And the accommodation you want is relatively easy to find in Izu or Hakone. However, if the room has a bath with a hot spring, the accommodation fee will be quite high.
There are also accommodations that do not have a bath in the room but have a private hot spring in the facility.
Next is Osaka, but there is Arima Onsen in the neighboring Hyogo prefecture. It takes 45 minutes to an hour by car to get to Osaka. There are also hot spring accommodations in Hiroshima if you go a little away from the center.
Of course, there are hotels with hot spring baths in all of these cities.
However, if you want accommodations with a hot spring in the room or a private hot spring, I recommend staying in a hot spring area away from big cities such as Izu, Hakone, and Arima.
I am a qualified tour coordinator.
If you wish, I can suggest and book a facility that will fulfill your wishes. Of course, you can also book transportation and various activities.
I hope your journey is a good one.
Regards.
Tak
We are planning aprox. 1 week in Tokyo, 2-3 days Hiroshima and 4-5 days Osaka. We would primarily be staying at Toyoko Inns with a Heartfelt Room B.
I see.
So you’re staying at the Toyoko Inn.
What about the hot spring hotel?
Still looking for Hot Spring Hotel, prefer somewhere close to Rail line between Hiroshima and Tokyo, but will divert, example, Hakone, Izu maybe further like Nagano.
Hi
Hello. I recommend Arima Onsen when you visit Osaka. Or if you want to see a great sunset, I recommend the Tango region of Kyoto. Then this is another region close to Tokyo, but my friend has designed and is promoting such a bath. I will send it to you for your reference.
Regards.
Tak
Yes! My wife (Japanese) had found this one before, but I hadn’t seen it in action. Thanks for the link.
We stayed at an ryokan hotel with a private onsen in Hakone. My husband’s power wheelchair had no issues rolling into the room, elevator, or onsite restaurant. We requested the “Western-style” room to sleep on mattresses instead of floor futons. The room had a private onsen on outdoor balcony surrounded by bushes and small trees.
My husband uses a cane to stand up out of chair and was able to use shower before crawling and climbing into the deep outdoor tub. He loved the experience of soaking in hot mineral water in peaceful setting … until the traffic noise increased before sunset. That’s when we realized there was a road nearby on the other side of the bushes. But after enjoying kaiseki dinner, the road noise was much, much quieter. Enjoyed the evening soaking, looking up hoping the clouds would clear.
Woke up next morning listening to birds outside, less clouds, brisk temperature. Good time for another shower and morning soaking experience.
Afterwards, we enjoyed the Japanese breakfast at the onsite restaurant. Wish we could have stayed a second night.
Name of ryokan in Hakone is: Mori No Kaze Hakone Sengokuhara
https://www.morinokaze-hakone-sengokuhara.com/
Our travel agency was TokudAw and they arranged booking and transportation and carefully took care of his power chair.
Hi, may I know roughly how much you spent by engaging a tour agency?
The ryokan was a little over $785 for the single night in a private Onsen room. It included the kaiseiki dinner and Japanese breakfast. TokudAw found and booked the ryokan for us. It was excellent.
We hired TokudAw because we’re retired, husband has wheelchair, and we wanted to splurge a little for our first-time Japan visit. Their private tour guide and private drivers, luxury SUV and local dining recommendations made us feel comfortable without stress. Tour guide handled the tickets, translations, and found accessible paths. Drivers carefully handled loading the wheelchair. The chauffeurs costs was about $700 per day including road tolls and their accommodation.
We used up our hotel points whenever we could in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima. So that helped us little bit.
Our cost to TokudAw services with excellent private tour guide and wonderful careful private drivers was under $10K. Well worth not having to deal with tickets and transportation.
Thank You, Do you remember the Room number?
At the ryokan Mori No Kaze Hakone Sengokuhara, the room number was 304.
Thank you, it looks good.
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