{
 "slug": "ochiairo",
 "name": "Ochiairo",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/ochiairo",
 "location": "Yugashima Onsen, Izu",
 "prefecture": "Shizuoka",
 "region": "Chubu",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 34.9264,
  "lng": 138.9531
 },
 "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": "A heritage onsen inn at an Izu river confluence, built around a bath-and-sauna complex inside 90-year-old architecture. It holds a Michelin 1-Key, and is #1 of 47 in Izu on Booking at 9.4 and 4.64 across 101 Ikyu reviews. The recurring complaint is service short of the price. Book by room name, because only four rooms have private open-air onsen, and note that the rebuilt thermal spring now runs mixed-gender in bathing wear.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "An 8 to 9 course Izu kaiseki is served in private dining rooms, and the menu changes completely across a two-night stay; the breakfast cult item is wasabi rice, and there is also a steakhouse, which KI-NRT points out is a rarity at a traditional ryokan. Sake, wine and champagne pairings are included. Several 2026 guests found dinner neither good nor bad for the price, and Ikyu guests give the meals 4.54."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The tea-room sauna at the Moon Bath, produced by sauna expert Dai Matsuo, made Japan's SAUNACHELIN ranking in 2019 and 2020, and the hinoki-lined Tengu Sauna is one of the few in Japan to use hot-spring water for its steam, with a river plunge of about 14°C in winter. The private Hoshi-no-yu bath is free if you reserve at check-in, and tattoos are fine. The rebuilt thermal spring is mixed-gender in bathing wear, which Japanese guests dislike."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Everything is included (station shuttle, a nightly-restocked minibar, a beer as you leave the bath). The reviews split on the hospitality itself, and Ikyu guests put service at 4.46, their lowest mark for the inn, with the recurring complaint that the staff fall short of what the price demands."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Only four rooms have a private open-air onsen, so book by name: Ukifune (74 m², heritage Meiun-tei wing), Kobai and Tokonatsu (both with an indoor tub too) and Yamazakura, which has the best outdoor bath but no indoor one. The Meiun-tei three are the most secluded but farthest from the baths (stairs, no elevator); Yamazakura is steps away. Corridors and tatami are floor-heated."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The inn drapes down a hillside in Yugashima, inland Izu, where the Nekkoshi and Hontani rivers meet, and the bath complex hangs right over the confluence; KI-NRT calls it the famed Ochiairo. It is quiet wherever you are in the building, with a reading room and tea lounge off the main building and the heritage architecture kept immaculate. The one blemish anyone mentions is the derelict buildings visible across the river."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 2.2,
    "time": "2h10",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Shinkansen Tokyo→Mishima (~50 min), Izuhakone Sunzu line→Shuzenji (~35 min), then the free inn shuttle ~25 min (Ochiairo includes it — reserve; Arcana is a sparse Tokai bus or ~20-min taxi)."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kyoto",
    "hours": 3.05,
    "time": "3h05",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: Inn shuttle back to Shuzenji (~25 min), then Izuhakone Sunzu line + Tōkaidō Shinkansen Shuzenji→Kyoto door-to-door ~2h38 (Google Maps live routing, confirms the Mishima change)."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
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   "url": "/img/ochiairo-0-b47f6e36.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/ochiairo-1-51fc6f36.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
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   "url": "/img/ochiairo-2-7c25693b.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
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   "url": "/img/ochiairo-3-890f5c17.jpg",
   "tag": "interior",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 265
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/ochiairo-4-a3e549f3.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
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  }
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 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.ochiairo.co.jp/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=6973746713300017216",
  "jp_site": {
   "source": "Ikyu",
   "score": 4.64,
   "reviews": 101,
   "url": "https://www.ikyu.com/00000613/review/",
   "as_of": "2026-07-24"
  },
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}