{
 "slug": "shoraiso",
 "name": "Shoraiso",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/shoraiso",
 "location": "Yudanaka Onsen, Yamanouchi",
 "prefecture": "Nagano",
 "region": "Chubu",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 36.7419,
  "lng": 138.4361
 },
 "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": 5,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Traditional quiet ryokan",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": "Yes",
  "meals_in_room": "Some"
 },
 "summary": "A five-room inn re-opened in 2024 a five-minute drive from the Jigokudani snow-monkey park, with large in-room onsen baths (bigger than Takinami's, by KI-NRT's research) and dinner served in-room or in private rooms. Ikyu guests put it at 4.86 over 90 reviews and mostly rave, though a minority found the kaiseki unmemorable and the main bath a walk to the older sister property. It looks promising, and the crowd largely loves it.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Dinner is a monthly-changing kaiseki built around the head chef's dashi, and guests split on it more than anything else. Ikyu guests put food at 4.83 and repeatedly single out the delicacy of the dashi, and several rank it among the best they have eaten at any ryokan, though a minority find the meal less memorable than the price suggests. A lounge pours free-flow craft beer, local juice and pudding."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Every room has its own onsen bath, and they are large, bigger than Takinami's by KI-NRT's research. The main bath is the famous Momoyama bath at Yorozuya, the older sister inn across the way, with a small sauna attached, though it means a walk across to the older building. Nobody says whether the water runs free from the source. Ikyu guests put the baths at 4.88."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Nobody in the thread has stayed here. Ikyu guests give service their highest mark (4.92) and describe well-paced, attentive staff, and the head chef comes to the table himself to finish the meat course, a visit guests divide on, some counting it a highlight and others a performance. Spheres_pnw wondered whether the effusive early reviews are unprompted, since the owner answers almost all of them on Google."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Five rooms since the 2024 re-opening, each with its own onsen bath, and KI-NRT, who has not stayed, rates them highly from his research, with larger in-room onsen than at Yamagata The Takinami and the choice of dinner in the room or in a private dining room. Ikyu guests put rooms at 4.83 and like the Nagano-themed amenities, the Japanese-made fixtures and the cleanliness of a new building. The smallest of the five is Shakunage, upstairs."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Shoraiso is in Nagano about a five-minute drive from Jigokudani Monkey Park, which KI-NRT counts as a plus if you are into that sort of thing, and outside snow-monkey season he says there is not enough to do nearby to warrant more than one night unless you have a rental car. The inn is the newer annex of Yorozuya, whose retro main building stands just across the way, and Ikyu guests describe a peaceful, new and spotless place."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 2.6,
    "time": "2h35",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Hokuriku Shinkansen 'Kagayaki' Tokyo→Nagano (~1h20–1h30), change to the Nagaden Ltd Exp 'Snow Monkey'/'Yukemuri'→Yudanaka (~45 min), then ~7 min to the inn — snow-monkey country. ~2h35 door-to-door. ⚠ Nagaden halved ltd-exp service to ~10/day (Sep 2024) — plan the Nagano connection; local fallback ~70–80 min."
   },
   {
    "city": "Kanazawa",
    "hours": 2.2,
    "time": "2h10",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": false,
    "text": "Hokuriku Shinkansen 'Kagayaki' Kanazawa→Nagano (~65 min), Nagaden Ltd Exp→Yudanaka (~45 min) + ~7 min (inn pickup 15:00–18:30, or walk). ⚠ Nagaden halved ltd-exp service to ~10/day (Sep 2024) — the Nagano connection is roughly hourly; local fallback ~70–80 min. Nagano is a straight shot on the mainline return."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/shoraiso-0-53b85c98.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shoraiso-1-c37e1aaa.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shoraiso-2-462aa2ad.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/shoraiso-3-e1ab234c.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://shoraiso.com/en/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=14885104450156460237",
  "jp_site": {
   "source": "Ikyu",
   "score": 4.86,
   "reviews": 90,
   "url": "https://www.ikyu.com/00003198/review/",
   "as_of": "2026-07-11"
  },
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 624,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37275703-post624.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 675,
    "author": "spheres_pnw",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37405356-post675.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 759,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37726002-post759.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 761,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37726093-post761.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}