{
 "slug": "sakurayu-sanshuyu",
 "name": "Sakurayu Sanshuyu",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/sakurayu-sanshuyu",
 "location": "Nanyo",
 "prefecture": "Yamagata",
 "region": "Tohoku",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 38,
  "lng": 140.1
 },
 "tier": "C",
 "score": 6.0,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "med",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 3,
  "op_stays": 1,
  "member_stays": 1
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": 7,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Kaiseki",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "Yes (open-air)",
  "meals_in_room": "Yes (in room)"
 },
 "summary": "Sakurayu Sanshuyu is a seven-room ryokan in Akayu's onsen town in Yamagata, in a nondescript building along the main highway with no real garden, though it has in-room dining and special rooms like the 79m² Oyama Renge with its own open-air onsen bath. KI-NRT finds this famous Tohoku name overrated, a good property and quite cheap by luxury-ryokan standards but not worth visiting the area just to stay at. One other guest, Michaeljinnyc, called his stay completely unforgettable. It makes sense only if Akayu is already on your route.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "Dinner runs to 12 courses and is served in your room. KI-NRT has nothing in particular to say about it, and he finds that Yamagata The Takinami, a five-minute walk away in Nanyo town, has a vastly more interesting cuisine."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "The Oyama Renge special room has its own open-air onsen bath, so you get Akayu's hot-spring water in private. KI-NRT lists the bath as a feature of the room and says nothing more about it, good or bad, and nobody in the thread has written about the inn's other baths."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the service here."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Oyama Renge, one of the Tokubetsu-shitsu special rooms, gives you 79.3 square metres with an open-air onsen bath and both meals served in the room, and KI-NRT calls the property good overall. The one drawback is the room's own yard, which was poorly maintained if it was maintained at all, with shabby weeds all over the place."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 2.5,
   "text": "The inn is a nondescript building on the main highway through Nanyo, street-facing in the middle of Akayu's onsen town with no real garden to speak of, and KI-NRT calls this famous Tohoku name overrated, starting with the setting. The area itself has more to offer, though, since Osteria Sincerita is here and Akayu lies near the heart of Yamagata's cherry-growing regions, which brought him back a third time one June."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Yamagata",
    "hours": 0.5,
    "time": "~0h30",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Yamagata Shinkansen / Ou line from Yamagata to Akayu is about 20 min, then roughly 7 min by taxi to the inn."
   },
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 3,
    "time": "~3h",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Yamagata Shinkansen Tsubasa from Tokyo to Akayu is about 2h50, then roughly 7 min by taxi."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_sakurayusanshuyu-0-4f8d1601.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 267
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_sakurayusanshuyu-1-8df414ea.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 267
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_sakurayusanshuyu-2-4892b8f6.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_sakurayusanshuyu-3-432b41d6.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 312
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_sakurayusanshuyu-4-0573db36.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "http://www.sansyuyu.jp/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=11246404479330962928",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [
   {
    "post": 1,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34617783-post1.html"
   }
  ],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 172,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/35566861-post172.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 335,
    "author": "Michaeljinnyc",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36286460-post335.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": [
   {
    "rating": 4,
    "stay": "May 2022",
    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1023681-d1131180-r838755089-Sakurayu_Sanshuyu-Nanyo_Yamagata_Prefecture_Tohoku.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}