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Selected Onsen Ryokan is a collection of the very best onsen ryokans in Japan. This page is the ranking of the most popular onsen ryokans in the Kyushu-Okinawa region at Selected Onsen Ryokan in 2023. Please use this list as a reference when you pick up your favourite onsen ryokan.
Dedicated to your premium best onsen ryokan experience, Selected Onsen Ryokan introduces around 600 onsen ryokans with different special features throughout Japan. You can compare multiple booking sites to make reservations right from this website.
We offer particularly detailed information about onsen ryokans that provide guest rooms with private open-air baths (rotenburo), and onsen ryokans with rental hot spring baths for private use (kashikiri-buro). This website gives a lot of useful tips to people travelling in couples and families. If you are concerned about privacy and want to have a unique hot spring experience with someone special in a relaxed manner, this site is the best place to find the perfect onsen ryokan for you.
10. Yufuin Gettoan
Yufuin Onsen, Oita, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
An inn with traditional Japanese-style guest rooms dotted throughout a ten thousand square meter Japanese garden. All rooms include open-air baths.
Access: One hour 50 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Yufuin Station Bus Center, then 8 minutes by taxi from there
>9. Shiki no Sato Hanamura
Aso & Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
An inn with traditional Japanese-style guest rooms dotted throughout a ten thousand square meter Japanese garden. All rooms have hot spring baths. Twelve of the rooms also come with open-air baths.
Access: Two hours 20 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Kurokawa Onsen, then 7 minutes by shuttle bus from there (Advance booking required)
8. Sanso Warabino
Yufuin Onsen, Oita, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
After having undergone renovation in 2019, its became a relaxing and modern Japanese-style inn surrounded by nature. All rooms are secluded accommodations that include open-air baths.
Access: One hour 50 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Yufuin Station Bus Center, then 6 minutes by shuttle bus from there (Advance booking required)
7. Beppu Showaen
Beppu Onsen, Oita, Kyushu Region
All rooms have hot spring baths. All rooms are secluded accommodations located in a garden. A historic and traditional Japanese inn established in 1925. Gold mining flourished in this area during the Edo period…
Access: Two hours by JR Limited Express from Hakata Station to Beppu Station, then 8 minutes by shuttle bus
6. Ryokan Okunoyu
Aso & Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
An elegant inn situated in the mountains surrounded by nature. With three types of private-use hot spring baths. There are also several mixed open-air baths here and from 8 pm to 10 pm, those are for ladies only.
Access: Two hours 20 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Kurokawa Onsen, then 3 minutes by shuttle bus
5. Nansuikaku
Hakata Onsen, Fukuoka, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
It is a ryokan situated in a rich, leafy natural environment, accessible from the Hakata Station by an hour of bus ride. Many guest rooms out of all 29 rooms command a view of the river. Four rooms come with private open-air baths…
Access: One hour by bus from Hakata Bus Terminal to Nansuikaku-mae bus stop, then 1 minutes on foot
4. Ryokan Sanga
Aso & Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto, Kyushu-Okinawa Region
An elegant inn situated in the mountains surrounded by nature. With three types of private-use hot spring baths. There is also a gender-mixed open-air onsen here.
Access: Two hours 20 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Kurokawa Onsen, then 5 minutes by shuttle bus from there (Advance booking required)
3. AMANE RESORT SEIKAI (Shiosai no Yado Seikai)
Beppu Onsen, Oita, Kyushu Region
All rooms come with open-air baths that command a view of the ocean. There is a scenic open-air hot spring bath facing the ocean.
Access: Two hours by JR Limited Express from Hakata Station to Beppu Station, then 15 minutes by taxi
2. Iyashi-no-Sato Kiyashiki
Aso & Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto, Kyushu Region
This ryokan is located on a highland surrounded by nature, far from the centre of Kurokawa Onsen. It is composed of 10 detached rooms, all equipped with private open-air baths, and the main building. Both the public open-air bath…
Access: Two hours 20 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Kurokawa Onsen, then 15 minutes on foot
1. Yamamizuki
Aso & Kurokawa Onsen, Kumamoto, Kyushu Region
This ryokan is located near a river at some distance from Kurokawa Onsen’s hot spring town, in the heart of nature’s bounty. Each of the 21 guest rooms is different from one another in terms of layout and design…
Access: Two hours 20 minutes by bus from Fukuoka Airport to Kurokawa Onsen, then 23 minutes on foot
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