{
 "slug": "fufu-kyu-karuizawa",
 "name": "Fufu Kyu-Karuizawa",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/fufu-kyu-karuizawa",
 "location": "Karuizawa",
 "prefecture": "Nagano",
 "region": "Chubu",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 36.3486,
  "lng": 138.6003
 },
 "tier": "D",
 "score": 5.6,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 1,
  "op_stays": 0,
  "member_stays": 1
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": "Modern ryokan",
 "style": "Modern",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "Yes",
  "meals_in_room": "No"
 },
 "summary": "Fufu Kyu-Karuizawa is a Fufu-brand hot-spring hotel in old Karuizawa, and the one member who has stayed, OWHKG2016, arriving straight from Fufu Nikko, called it a big letdown and would not go back. The restaurant is good and Kumoba Pond is at the doorstep, but poorly trained staff and a zoo-like courtyard layout spoiled the stay. That single one-night stay is all anyone in the thread has written about it, so treat it as a warning and no more.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 4,
   "text": "The restaurant was the best part of OWHKG2016's one-night stay, with food and service they called great, though the tables are placed close together and the dining room looks onto the same small inner courtyard as the rooms, so you watch other guests come and go while you eat."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the baths or the water here."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 2,
   "text": "Service was the real letdown of OWHKG2016's stay. The staff were mostly quite young and not really well trained, and they call the result extremely unacceptable: the front desk was unmanned and reception ignored them when they came back in. This is the stay they would not repeat, and a year later they placed Fufu Kyoto alongside Kyu-Karuizawa at the opposite end of the brand from Fufu Nikko."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The hotel is nicely decorated, but the rooms, the lounge and the restaurant all face the same small inner courtyard, so everyone can see you going in and out of your room, which struck OWHKG2016 as pretty much a zoo. Nobody in the thread has described the rooms themselves."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "The hotel stands in old Karuizawa, a good base for Kumoba Pond's autumn foliage, and like the streets and buildings around it it has a much smaller footprint than Fufu Nikko, with the whole compound built around a single small inner courtyard. OWHKG2016, who came straight from Nikko, found the contrast a big letdown."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 1.2,
    "time": "~1h10",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Hokuriku Shinkansen Tokyo->Karuizawa ~1h5, then ~5 min by car."
   },
   {
    "city": "Nagano",
    "hours": 0.6,
    "time": "~0h35",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Hokuriku Shinkansen Nagano->Karuizawa ~30 min, then ~5 min by car."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_fufukyukaruizawa-0-159a98cb.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_fufukyukaruizawa-1-aca41813.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_fufukyukaruizawa-2-054c0a55.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_fufukyukaruizawa-3-4e5f0d81.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.fufukyukaruizawa.jp/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=8425418831664363508",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 438,
    "author": "OWHKG2016",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36730667-post438.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}