{
 "slug": "sengokuhara-cocon",
 "name": "Sengokuhara COCON",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/sengokuhara-cocon",
 "location": "Sengokuhara, Hakone",
 "prefecture": "Kanagawa",
 "region": "Hakone",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.25,
  "lng": 139.0167
 },
 "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": "Sengokuhara COCON is a five-suite small-luxury auberge opened in February 2024 in the Sengokuhara highlands of Hakone (800 m, on a 1,000-tsubo garden), where each suite has an in-room Owakudani onsen plus its own dry sauna and cold bath, and dinner is a modern French menu poured with free-flow champagne. A rotating 'stay & art' program dresses the rooms and the gallery. Ikyu guests give it 4.87 across some 140 stays, with service their highest mark at 4.94. Nobody in the thread has stayed here yet.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Dinner is modern French built on Hakone and Izu produce by chef Yokoyama, poured with free-flow champagne, and the pairings (Meursault and Château Talbot have appeared) recur in the praise. Ikyu guests mark the cooking near 4.86, the softer of the top marks only because every mark here is high, and repeat guests report the cooking holding up visit after visit."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Each of the five suites has its own in-room Owakudani onsen plus a private dry sauna (up to 90°C on request), a cold plunge and a terrace for the air bath, and there is a large public bath too. There is no open-air tub in the rooms and no bath has a view, but the in-suite sauna-and-plunge set is what guests praise, and Ikyu guests mark the bathing near 4.85."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "COCON is a five-suite house where the staff-to-guest ratio shows, and Ikyu guests mark hospitality 4.94, the highest of every sub-mark, with anticipatory, unhurried care the recurring theme. Repeat guests dominate the reviews, and they describe preferences remembered from earlier visits and every request met gladly."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The five rooms are all suites, at 800 m in the Sengokuhara highlands, and each has an in-room onsen, a dry sauna and a cold bath, plus artworks that change under the 'stay & art' program; the room baths are wide and comfortable. Ikyu guests put the rooms among their highest marks, with the space and the design the standout."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "COCON sits on a 1,000-tsubo garden in the Sengokuhara highlands of northern Hakone (800 m), near the Owakudani source and the pampas-grass fields, a quiet upland-resort address opened in February 2024 whose gallery and rotating 'stay & art' installations run through the common spaces. Three goats live on the grounds. Mount Fuji shows from the rooms."
  }
 },
 "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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   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/cocon-1-72610c14.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
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  },
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   "url": "/img/cocon-2-284aafd3.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/cocon-3-543413ce.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
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  }
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 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.sengokubara-cocon.jp/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12968891645446473676",
  "jp_site": {
   "source": "Ikyu",
   "score": 4.87,
   "reviews": 141,
   "url": "https://www.ikyu.com/00003125/review/",
   "as_of": "2026-07-24"
  },
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}