{
 "slug": "kappo-ryokan-wakamatsu",
 "name": "Kappo Ryokan Wakamatsu",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/kappo-ryokan-wakamatsu",
 "location": "Yunokawa Onsen, Hakodate",
 "prefecture": "Hokkaido",
 "region": "Hokkaido",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 41.7897,
  "lng": 140.7961
 },
 "tier": "C",
 "score": 6.7,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "med",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 4,
  "op_stays": 2,
  "member_stays": 0
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": 23,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Kaiseki",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "No",
  "meals_in_room": "Yes"
 },
 "summary": "Hakodate's most famous onsen ryokan, a 1924 inn that hosted the Emperor and came back from a years-long pandemic closure. KI-NRT's 2025 return found the kimono-clad personal service and source-fed sea-view baths as good as he remembered, but the once-revered kitchen has stood still and even the top room is dated. He thinks it may still be the best ryokan in Hakodate, but it is far from a destination property.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 2.5,
   "text": "The November 2025 dinner was the letdown of KI-NRT's return. He once had Wakamatsu in his top-10 kaiseki experiences, but this time the zensai included matsukaze and homemade karasumi (both cheap izakaya items), a mukago yam bulb and a weird bacon-and-squid roll. He believes the chef is the same, and Mrs. KI-NRT is firm that the kitchen has stood still. Whale meat turns up in the miso soup, so tell them in advance if you object."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 4.5,
   "text": "The hot water comes straight from Wakamatsu's own on-site source, free-flowing and never recirculated, into a gender-segregated daiyokujo with open-air sea views and one private rental bath, Azumaya, which also looks onto the sea. KI-NRT went on an unusually cold early-November day and found the dips heavenly, and Yunokawa Onsen is well regarded for its healing properties. The bath in the room is basic tap water that you fill yourself."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 4.5,
   "text": "Every room attendant and meal server wears an elegant kimono, and KI-NRT had a personal server, Ms. Sasaki, for both dinner and breakfast, a rarity these days. She had a strong command of each dish and talked about the local area. When he showed her photos from his stay two decades earlier she ran off and came back with Ms. Kobayashi, the same attendant, in tow. He calls the service exceptionally high on both visits."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "The rooms are a mixed bag. KI-NRT stayed in Yachiyo, the top room, in the original building: a 90m² reproduction of the suite where Emperor Shōwa stayed in 1954 that mixes a tatami room with a Taishō-era Western sitting area and a bedroom. He found the mix odd but acceptable for history's sake; the bathroom with its outdated toilet and a urinal is unacceptable, though, and the Wi-Fi was dial-up slow. The panoramic views made up for some of it."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Wakamatsu sits on the Tsugaru Strait at Yunokawa Onsen, five minutes from Hakodate Airport, and every room has an unobstructed view to Aomori's Shimokita Peninsula. It is a northern sea of rough water and gloomy skies most days, so you would not mistake it for Amanpulo or Amanoi. The original 1924 building is tasteful inside, but the 1994 new wing still looks like a bubble-era building in need of a fresh coat of paint."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Hakodate",
    "hours": 0.15,
    "time": "~0h10",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "~7 min by taxi from Hakodate Airport; ~15 min tram/car from Hakodate Station to Yunokawa Onsen."
   },
   {
    "city": "New Chitose",
    "hours": 4,
    "time": "~4h",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "~4 hr by car from New Chitose Airport (CTS); most fly CTS-Hakodate instead."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_kapporyokanwakamatsu-0-44eb38ed.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_kapporyokanwakamatsu-1-97caa550.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_kapporyokanwakamatsu-2-a8234e3c.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_kapporyokanwakamatsu-3-8f70cab1.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.wakamatsuryokan.com/hakodate/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=3933795623424800820",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [
   {
    "post": 680,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37430020-post680.html"
   }
  ],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 188,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/35669729-post188.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": [
   {
    "rating": 3,
    "stay": "November 2025",
    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g298151-d319620-r1040014606-Kappo_Ryokan_Wakamatsu-Hakodate_Hokkaido.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}