{
 "slug": "shogetsu",
 "name": "Shogetsu",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/shogetsu",
 "location": "Gero Onsen",
 "prefecture": "Gifu",
 "region": "Chubu",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.8028,
  "lng": 137.2417
 },
 "tier": "A",
 "score": 8.8,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "med",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 4,
  "op_stays": 1,
  "member_stays": 1
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": {
  "claim": "top10",
  "quote": "Shogetsu is indeed incredible; there's a good reason for it landing in my personal top 10 list."
 },
 "rooms": 21,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Kaiseki (creative)",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "Yes (open-air, balcony)",
  "meals_in_room": "—"
 },
 "summary": "A 21-room hilltop ryokan overlooking the Gero Onsen valley, a tall, nondescript building outside but inside all rock gardens, artsy lounges, a spectacular creative-kaiseki kitchen, amazing Gero spring water and valley views from room, lounge and communal bath alike. KI-NRT puts it in his personal top ten and far and away first in Gero. The charm is all inside, and the private-onsen rooms sell out early.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 5,
   "text": "KI-NRT calls the kaiseki \"creative Japanese at its finest\" and some of the best he has ever had, and it is the inn he names first for Gifu. Fried new-harvest potatoes with uni and caviar, Hida beef tongue stew with eagle fern tempura and baby sweetfish deep-fried with herbs were all exceptional, and breakfast was not an afterthought. Michaeljinnyc, fresh from a disappointing two nights at Takimotokan Yuki no Sato, says Shogetsu blew them away."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 4.5,
   "text": "The water is Gero Onsen's own hot spring, renowned for its quality, and KI-NRT calls it amazing: Shogetsu definitely did not disappoint. His corner suite had an open-air onsen bath on the balcony with the valley below, and the Daiyokujo communal bath has the same sweeping view, which he calls incredible."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has written about the service here."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "KI-NRT stayed in a corner suite with an open-air onsen bath on the balcony, and he calls the views of the valley from the room incredible. Nobody in the thread has described the rooms beyond that outlook."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 4,
   "text": "Shogetsu is a tall, nondescript building on a hilltop with no garden, but inside are artsy lounges, Zen rock gardens with streams and sweeping views over the Gero valley from lounge, rooms and communal baths. KI-NRT admits it is not quite as atmospheric as Wanosato. Gero town was a delight for Michaeljinnyc to explore. For autumn colour mid to late November should be awesome here and at Gero Onsen Gassho Mura, the thatched-roof folk village."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Kanazawa",
    "hours": 3,
    "time": "3h",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Toyama (~2h20), change to the Hokuriku Shinkansen Toyama→Kanazawa (~23 min). Beats the Takayama + Nohi-bus chain (~3h25). ⚠ ~5 Toyama through-services/day."
   },
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 3.7,
    "time": "3h40",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Nagoya (~1h37), change to a Tōkaidō 'Nozomi'→Tokyo (~1h40), plus the ~5-min drive at the Gero end. Shogetsu's own access page gives this chain."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kyoto",
    "hours": 3.1,
    "time": "3h05",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Reverse of: 'Hida' Gero→Nagoya (~1h35), change ~15 min to a Tōkaidō 'Nozomi'/'Hikari'→Kyoto (~35 min) + the Shōgetsu shuttle and hotel ends (2026-07 audit: same 10-Hida/day correction as takayama>kyoto — hourly only ~11:30–16:30, 2h gaps outside, all-reserved Dec 25–Jan 5, January 大雪 advisories; the old 2.5 was bare rides on an 'hourly' frequency that isn't). One no-change direct: Hida 36 calls at Gero ~16:10 → Kyoto 19:17."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/shogetsu-0-d7b0eb81.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shogetsu-1-a134a6b8.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shogetsu-2-be9bcc51.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shogetsu-3-527a288a.jpg",
   "tag": "interior",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shogetsu-4-634f0b10.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.shougetsu.jp/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=12534049386318348459",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [
   {
    "post": 1,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34617783-post1.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 325,
    "author": "Michaeljinnyc",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36256187-post325.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 327,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36257354-post327.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 624,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37275703-post624.html"
   }
  ],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 302,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/36189433-post302.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 646,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37313508-post646.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": [
   {
    "rating": 5,
    "stay": "March 2021",
    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g788306-d1096980-r787474255-Shogetsu-Gero_Gifu_Prefecture_Tokai_Chubu.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}