IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A RYOKAN IN JAPAN WITH A PRIVATE OPEN AIR ONSEN IN YOUR ROOM

Here is my Pros/Cons/ and Neutrals for #RyokanHakoneGinyu Pros 🟢Private open air onsen 🟢Access to public onsens 🟢24/7 room service through a special QR code that was specific to our rooms and easy to navigate online 🟢Meals were delicious and staff was very professional and quick while serving us 🟢Took time to explain our meals to us 🟢Our room was spacious and very clean 🟢Everywhere we looked it was beautiful inside the ryokan and around us 🟢Fresh Bathrobes, Samue and Yukata provided daily with our specific size 🟢Free drinks were always restocked 🟢Very accommodating to requests! I have a medical condition that requires me to drink more water than normal and they kept a water pitcher full in my room! This was very meaningful to me. 🟢Rooms were all individually temperature controlled and very easy to use 🟢Room floors were heated in the bathroom and eating area 🟢Separate eating and sleeping areas 🟢Hands free toto toilet — I didn’t touch it once the whole time I was there 🟢Staff did an excellent job at remembering us 🟢English was spoken more widely than we anticipated 🟢Foreigner friendly 🟢20min bus ride to Ropeway that will take you to Owakudani 🟢Staff waited for our return from leaving the Ryokan 🟢Free WiFi provided was faster than the speed of light 🟢Whole Ryokan building has many heated wood floors or tatami mats and I liked that we did not have to keep up with our shoes and the staff took them for us at the reception area Neutrals 🟡Buses in the area are main way to get to the Ryokan and they are slightly confusing to navigate because it’s primarily in Japanese 🟡Cell service was not always the best — not their fault at all. Cons 🔴Had to keep track of room service costs manually to know how much we spentReservation system was very difficult to use on top of it being hard to have an opening for a reservation. 🔴We couldn't stay longer. ‪🔴Reservation system was very difficult to use ‬on top of it being hard to have an opening for a reservation. 🔴We couldn’t stay longer. #Japan #japantravel #hakone #japanryokan