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Book Funaya Ryokan in Dogo Onsen (Ehime)―― Ryokan with a 380 year history. It features a 5,000 square meter Japanese garden and Japan’s oldest hot spring. The hot spring even appears in Japanese myth. Many notable authors have stayed here, and the spring has appeared in literature under its real name. This famous ryokan features top class hospitality and is even used by the Imperial Family.
Access: 40 min by bus from Matsuyama Airport to Dogo Onsen Station
Rooms with indoor hot spring baths available
Simple hot spring
Dogo Onsen Main Building, Matsuyama Castle, Itoyama Observatory, Kurushima Kaikyo SA (Nishi Seto Expressway), Shimanami Kaido
Emperor Showa stayed in this ryokan.
With 3,000 years of history, this is one of Japan’s oldest hot springs. It even appears in the “Nihon Shoki” (a collection of ancient myths). Many past Emperors of Japan have visited here starting 1,500 years ago, including Emperor Showa. It also is home to Yushinden, the only bathing room in Japan specially set aside for the Imperial Family.
1624
58 rooms
*Smoking is prohibited in all rooms
*These links will go to the travel agencys’ reservation website.
18,800 - 95,700 yen per guest per night
The price includes one dinner and one breakfast
1-33 Dogo Yuno-cho, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime-ken 790-0842 Japan Show map
(1) 40 min by bus from Matsuyama Airport to Dogo Onsen Station, then 3 min on foot
(2) 1h 10 min by Super Jet from Hiroshima Port to Matsuyama Sightseeing Port, then 45 min by bus to Dogo Onsen Station and 3-min walk from there
The required times may slightly vary depending on the time of day.