{
 "slug": "ginyu",
 "name": "Ginyu",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/ginyu",
 "location": "Hakone",
 "prefecture": "Kanagawa",
 "region": "Kanto",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.2323,
  "lng": 139.1069
 },
 "tier": "C",
 "score": 6.3,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 2,
  "op_stays": 1,
  "member_stays": 0
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": "Modern ryokan",
 "style": "Modern",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "Yes",
  "meals_in_room": "No"
 },
 "summary": "A Hakone ryokan with the best views in the area and its hardest reservation, which in KI-NRT's eyes is resting on its laurels, with those views wrapped in Balinese interiors that could use a refresh, impersonal hotel-like service and a recirculated onsen. 'It's still nice, but for the prices they command I'd expect a bit more,' and its claim to fame nowadays is the difficulty of booking it; he would not return. If you do go, get the highest floor you can for the view.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "KI-NRT found the food hit-and-miss, and when he steers people to Ginyu it is for the views and never for the kitchen."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "The onsen water is recirculated instead of being fed continually straight from the source, which KI-NRT counts against it. Room layouts vary a lot, and in some of them the bath's barriers stand in front of the views, so the room you get matters."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "Service is a bit impersonal and very hotel-like. When KI-NRT pulled up to the front there was nobody waiting at the entrance and he had no idea where to park, and at check-in you are seated in the lounge to enjoy the wonderful views, then called back to the front desk counter to do the formalities."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "The interiors are Balinese in style, and KI-NRT, who prefers either modern or well-maintained traditional Japanese, finds Ginyu is neither; the place could also use a refresh. Room layouts vary a great deal, and some put bath barriers in front of the view, so the higher the floor the better."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 4.5,
   "text": "For views it is no contest, the best in Hakone, and the higher the floor the better; even KI-NRT, who does not count Ginyu among his Hakone favourites, sends people here when the view is the priority. The seating area where you wait at check-in has the same wonderful views. Ginyu is one of Hakone's prominent luxury ryokans alongside Gora Kadan and Gora Hanaougi, and more centrally located than Yama no Chaya."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 2.2,
    "time": "2h10",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Odawara Shinkansen + Hakone Tozan line/bus toward Gora ~2h12."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kyoto",
    "hours": 2.25,
    "time": "2h15",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Tokaido Shinkansen to Odawara + Hakone Tozan line/bus ~2h15."
   }
  ],
  "note": "borrowed from builder"
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_ginyu-0-b14b6279.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_ginyu-1-e2309da2.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_ginyu-2-5ce69551.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_ginyu-3-fdbe5481.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.hakoneginyu.co.jp/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=17612686858117942316",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 289,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36151277-post289.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 291,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36151377-post291.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 357,
    "author": "MBA1413",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36369041-post357.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}