{
 "slug": "kaiseki-inn-suihuen",
 "name": "Kaiseki Inn Suihuen",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/kaiseki-inn-suihuen",
 "location": "Gero Onsen",
 "prefecture": "Gifu",
 "region": "Chubu",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.8028,
  "lng": 137.2417
 },
 "tier": "—",
 "score": null,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": true,
 "confidence": null,
 "evidence": {
  "units": null,
  "op_stays": null,
  "member_stays": null
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": null,
 "style": null,
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": null,
  "meals_in_room": null
 },
 "summary": "Suihuen is a fifteen-room kaiseki house on the high ground above Gero Onsen, looking across the valley to Gero-Fuji, with private open-air baths in eight of the rooms and a 'yojo kaiseki' dinner brought course by course to your own room. Ikyu's crowd gives it 4.75 across 107 reviews, and cooking (4.83) is its clear high mark while rooms (4.68) come in lowest. The inn's free shuttle takes four minutes from Gero Station, and Takayama is forty-eight minutes up the same line.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Suihuen calls itself a kaiseki inn, and dinner is a 'yojo kaiseki' brought course by course to a private room, built on Hida beef and Gero's prize-winning local rice. There is also a separate Hida-beef tearoom, Kangetsu, on the property. Ikyu guests put the cooking at 4.83, the inn's clear high mark and the only one above its 4.75 overall, and it is what returning guests lead with."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Gero's alkaline water is one of Japan's three great springs and famously silky on the skin, and here it runs to private open-air baths in eight of the fifteen rooms, with an open-air bath, a large public bath and a bookable private bath below. Ikyu guests put bathing at 4.75, and guests who have stayed elsewhere in Gero single out the water quality in both the room baths and the public one."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Guests keep describing the staff as courteous from welcome to send-off. Meals are served in the room, and the staff who bring them are described as consistently pleasant across the whole stay and not only at the set-pieces. Ikyu guests put hospitality at 4.75. A fifth-time visitor to Gero puts the house in the town's top one or two on overall satisfaction and recommends it without qualification."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "There are fifteen rooms across the main building and the adults-oriented Yukatei annex, eight of them with private open-air baths, ranging from barrier-free premium suites to junior suites with a garden or valley bath. Ikyu guests put the rooms at 4.68, the inn's softest mark, and at this price that is an honest trade, because the house spends on the kitchen and the water and less on square metres."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Suihuen sits on high ground above the Gero Onsen townscape, in a landscaped hillside garden near the Gassho-mura open-air village, and Gero-Fuji (Mt. Nakane) fills the view across the valley. Gero Station is four minutes below by the inn's shuttle, and Takayama is forty-eight minutes up the same Takayama Line."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Kanazawa",
    "hours": 3,
    "time": "3h",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Toyama (~2h20), change to the Hokuriku Shinkansen Toyama→Kanazawa (~23 min). Beats the Takayama + Nohi-bus chain (~3h25). ⚠ ~5 Toyama through-services/day."
   },
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 3.7,
    "time": "3h40",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Nagoya (~1h37), change to a Tōkaidō 'Nozomi'→Tokyo (~1h40), plus the ~5-min drive at the Gero end. Shogetsu's own access page gives this chain."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kyoto",
    "hours": 3.1,
    "time": "3h05",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Nagoya (~1h35), change ~15 min to a Tōkaidō 'Nozomi'/'Hikari'→Kyoto (~35 min) + the Shōgetsu shuttle and hotel ends (2026-07 audit: same 10-Hida/day correction as takayama>kyoto — hourly only ~11:30–16:30, 2h gaps outside, all-reserved Dec 25–Jan 5, January 大雪 advisories; the old 2.5 was bare rides on an 'hourly' frequency that isn't). One no-change direct: Hida 36 calls at Gero ~16:10 → Kyoto 19:17."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
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   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
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   "tag": "bath",
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  },
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   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
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   "url": "/img/suihuen-3-78d3b670.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/suihuen-4-fc8bba0c.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
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  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.e-onsen.co.jp/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12598435991470443981",
  "jp_site": {
   "source": "Ikyu",
   "score": 4.75,
   "reviews": 107,
   "url": "https://www.ikyu.com/00002819/review/",
   "as_of": "2026-07-26"
  },
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}