{
 "slug": "shiojitei",
 "name": "Shiojitei",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/shiojitei",
 "location": "Toba",
 "prefecture": "Mie",
 "region": "",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 34.4839,
  "lng": 136.8434
 },
 "tier": "—",
 "score": null,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": true,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": null,
  "op_stays": null,
  "member_stays": null
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": null,
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "No",
  "meals_in_room": null
 },
 "summary": "A Toba seaside ryokan known from a single 2018 member stay, which ruby&carlos recalled as quite nice and definitely in the luxury category, with great views, good food that stopped short of spectacular, and strong value at the price she paid. She posted to ask what the thread's two-to-three-times-pricier inns offer over it, and with no second stay in the thread the impression stays a thin one, comfortable and no more than that.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "ruby&carlos, who stayed in 2018, called the food good though not spectacular, and she came to the thread to ask what the far pricier kitchens deliver that this one does not. Nobody else has described a meal here."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Her 2018 room had no private onsen, and nobody in the thread has written about the baths themselves."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the service here."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "The only thing said about the rooms is that hers in 2018 had no private onsen, and nobody in the thread has described the rooms themselves."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 4,
   "text": "Great views are the one thing ruby&carlos singled out about this seaside ryokan in Toba, and nobody else in the thread has described the location."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Nagoya",
    "hours": 1.7,
    "time": "~1h40",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Kintetsu LEX Nagoya->Toba ~1h35, then ~5 min shuttle from Toba Stn."
   },
   {
    "city": "Osaka",
    "hours": 2.2,
    "time": "~2h10",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Kintetsu LEX Osaka->Toba ~2h (one transfer at Iseshi/Ujiyamada), then ~5 min shuttle."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_shiojitei-0-20d12567.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_shiojitei-1-e34f426c.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_shiojitei-2-d30dc341.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_shiojitei-3-e5def4c7.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.shiojitei.jp/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=15272840618039616145",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 37,
    "author": "ruby&carlos",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34755284-post37.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 38,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34756319-post38.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}