{
 "slug": "naoshima-ryokan-roka",
 "name": "Naoshima Ryokan Roka",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/naoshima-ryokan-roka",
 "location": "Naoshima",
 "prefecture": "Kagawa",
 "region": "Shikoku",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 34.4597,
  "lng": 133.9975
 },
 "tier": "D",
 "score": 5.9,
 "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": "No",
  "meals_in_room": "No"
 },
 "summary": "Roka is Naoshima's first true luxury ryokan (opened 2022), from the family behind Kifu no Sato, modern and artsy, and on KI-NRT's 2023 stay still a work in progress: no onsen, corporate service, rigid meal times and thin amenities around a good island kaiseki. Next time on Naoshima he would take a suite at Benesse House, which he doesn't think is a major compromise and costs a fraction of what Roka charges. Roka is worth a stay for the art island more than for the inn itself.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Dinner is a kaiseki built on the bounty of Naoshima and the Seto Inland Sea, carefully crafted and presented with care. KI-NRT left plenty satisfied, but the later, larger courses could have used more imagination: the miso-glazed amberjack is a dish found all over Japan, and the yuzu-soy Spanish mackerel was bland. Dinner at Umioto Mari was the more memorable meal. Menus come in Japanese and English, though curiously there is none for breakfast."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 1.5,
   "text": "There is no onsen at Roka. The bath is an ordinary one, and to make up for it the inn supplies a large jar of onsen concentrate from Yunogo Onsen (where Kifu no Sato is) to add to the water, which KI-NRT calls better than nothing. He knew going in, but the lack of hot spring was the big bummer of his stay, and he would have thought the heir to Kifu no Sato could have found a way to get some onsen here."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "Everyone was friendly and accommodating, but KI-NRT found the service too corporate for an 11-room inn: black uniforms, check-in in a lounge next to the kitchen, no butler and no private dining. Dinner is at 18:00 or 18:30 and breakfast at 08:00 or 08:30, and servers described each course by the book, so asking whether the fugu was local got \"let me check with the chef\". Bilingual menus and many non-Japanese staff suit foreign guests."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "The Roka Suite is the only one of its kind, 106m² with a tatami room, a Western living room, a bar counter, a semi-kitchen, a bedroom and a separate bath, which is spacious for two. The other ten rooms are smaller, and all eleven face a small hill that is not much to look at; there is no TV. The toiletries are very limited for a luxury ryokan: only a toothbrush, toner and razor, with no moisturizer, cotton swabs or shaving foam."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Roka is about as secluded as a place on Naoshima can be, a 10-minute walk from the Honmura district and its Art House Projects, with not much else around. KI-NRT spent most of his time at the museums around Benesse House, a 25-minute walk or an hourly shuttle away for non-guests. Roka itself is modern and stylish but the grounds are not huge: a rock garden out front and an outdoor hearth where a bonfire is lit for nightcaps."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Takamatsu",
    "hours": 1.1,
    "time": "~1h05",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Ferry from Takamatsu port to Naoshima (Miyanoura) takes about 50 min, plus transfer to the port and a short island ride."
   },
   {
    "city": "Okayama",
    "hours": 1.6,
    "time": "~1h35",
    "transfers": 2,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "JR Uno line Okayama to Uno port is about 50 min, then a 15-20 min ferry to Naoshima plus a short island ride."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
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   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 267
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_naoshimaryokanroka-1-43e3821c.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
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  },
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   "url": "/img/nc_naoshimaryokanroka-2-5b533ecd.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
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  },
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   "url": "/img/nc_naoshimaryokanroka-3-160b2d51.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
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  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://roka.voyage/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=2652975238892361824",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [
   {
    "post": 92,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/35063645-post92.html"
   }
  ],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [],
  "tripadvisor": [
   {
    "rating": 3,
    "stay": "February 2023",
    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1121428-d23746098-r880911427-Naoshima_Ryokan_Roka-Naoshima_cho_Kagawa_gun_Kagawa_Prefecture_Shikoku.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}