{
 "slug": "kinnotake-tonosawa",
 "name": "Kinnotake Tonosawa",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/kinnotake-tonosawa",
 "location": "Tonosawa, Hakone",
 "prefecture": "Kanagawa",
 "region": "Kanto",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.2333,
  "lng": 139.0833
 },
 "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": "Kinnotake Tonosawa is an adults-only Hakone gorge property built around in-room open-air onsen bathing from its own alkaline spring. Ikyu guests rate it 4.51 across 86 reviews, and the reviews split sharply by floor: the 4F suites get unanimous five-star reports while the lower floors generate nearly all the complaints, and two recent reviews report a drop in staff experience and warmth. Book a 4F suite or reconsider.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Dinner is kaiseki in one shared dining room with two seatings, and there is no in-room dining. Ikyu guests often name the food a highlight of the stay. The alternative is the teppanyaki counter Zen, and the 4F suites get an upgraded menu with A5 kuroge filet and Ise-ebi. Ikyu guests put the food at 4.62."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "All 21 rooms have their own open-air bath, free-flowing from the property's pH 9.5 spring, and the water runs at a coolish 40°C, though staff will raise it; there is no communal bath. In most rooms the washing area is outdoors, a cold dash in winter, and only TEN adds an indoor hinoki bath. Ikyu guests often call the room bath the best part of the stay and put it at 4.57."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "On the suite floor check-in happens in the room and the minibar is free, the lounge pours sparkling wine and beer free-flow until 22:00, and the staff will raise the temperature of the in-room bath (it runs around 40°C) if you ask. Most Ikyu guests describe warm, attentive staff, and Ikyu puts the service at 4.64, but two 2025 reviews describe a drop, with mostly trainee-badged, inexperienced young staff, smiling but not yet steady."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The 4F suites TEN, SORA and KUMO are the rooms to book: every review on the inn's own per-room pages for them is five stars, while all the complaints about roof views, noise and cramped tubs come from the 1F and 2F rooms. KI-NRT, relaying friends who stayed, warns that the entry-level rooms are small, long and narrow, and that the decor is more country home than traditional ryokan. Ikyu guests put the rooms at 4.43, near their lowest mark."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "You enter over a suspension bridge across the Tonosawa gorge, and all the rooms face the forest and river away from Route 1. The inn is adults-only (12 and up). On January 2 and 3 the Hakone Ekiden relay crosses Route 1 by the bridge, a three-minute walk away, so a New Year stay puts you on the course."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 2.2,
    "time": "2h10",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Odakyu Romancecar Shinjuku→Hakone-Yumoto (~85 min), Tozan railway→Kōwakudani (~35 min), 5-min inn shuttle (reserve)."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kyoto",
    "hours": 3,
    "time": "3h",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: Direct Tozan BUS Gōra/Sengokuhara→Odawara (~45 min — one seat; Tozan rail adds a Hakone-Yumoto change), then Tōkaidō Shinkansen→Kyoto (~1h50 on the ~2-hourly Odawara-calling 'Hikari'; 'Kodama'+change or ~2h40 all-Kodama otherwise)."
   },
   {
    "city": "Osaka",
    "hours": 3.4,
    "time": "3h25",
    "transfers": 2,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Midōsuji hop Umeda→Shin-Osaka, Tōkaidō 'Hikari' Shin-Osaka→Odawara (~2h05 — the same ~2-hourly Odawara-calling 'Hikari' the hakone>kyoto leg uses at ~1h50 to Kyoto, plus the ~15-min Kyoto–Shin-Osaka segment; 'Nozomi' skips Odawara and all-'Kodama' is ~2h40), then the direct Tozan BUS Odawara→Gōra/Sengokuhara (~45 min, one seat; the Tozan rail adds a Hakone-Yumoto change)."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
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   "url": "/img/kinnotake-0-1e05ccb9.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/kinnotake-1-5a6c1270.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
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   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/kinnotake-2-dfbe9845.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/kinnotake-3-a9309e79.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://kinnotake-resorts.com/kinnotake-tonosawa/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12055212393233200539",
  "jp_site": {
   "source": "Ikyu",
   "score": 4.51,
   "reviews": 86,
   "url": "https://www.ikyu.com/00001948/review/",
   "as_of": "2026-07-11"
  },
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}