{
 "slug": "teisui",
 "name": "Teisui",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/teisui",
 "location": "Oga",
 "prefecture": "Akita",
 "region": "Tohoku",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 39.9333,
  "lng": 139.8333
 },
 "tier": "C",
 "score": 6.4,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 2,
  "op_stays": 1,
  "member_stays": 0
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Remote luxury-aspiring ryokan",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": null,
  "meals_in_room": null
 },
 "summary": "A rare outpost of luxury on Akita's remote Oga Peninsula, revived since 2017 by the okami Emiko Hirabayashi's investment in a new onsen source and refurbished rooms. KI-NRT calls it the most polarizing property he has experienced in Japan: breathtaking views and a soothing onsen against uneven service, food that is merely \"good\" and rooms he would avoid. She seemed cold at first and then warmed into an engaged host who gave them a tour of the whole property, and he says that without those conversations the stay would have ranked among his more underwhelming.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3.5,
   "text": "Dinner is built on good Oga ingredients served in the traditional way: the local red snow crab was excellent and so was the abalone, but they came steamed and sauteed, and the zensai ran to 16 small bites, too many for KI-NRT to savor at once. The deep-fried horsehead fish went well with the eel and Akita Komachi rice, while the matcha ice cream finale was a downer in a prefecture with no tea tradition. He calls the food merely \"good\"."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": 4,
   "text": "The onsen is a rare hazel-brown water that the okami dug for on site, at a cost of almost a million dollars, after the nearby source she depended on began to decline, and KI-NRT found it soothing. In the Nishinokaze suite the in-room bath runs straight from the source and unfiltered and comes out brown, while the public and private rental baths are treated and recirculated, which leaves them clear."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 2.5,
   "text": "Service is uneven and not anticipatory. KI-NRT found the staff a bit timid, and at dinner the server could not explain many of the appetizers and called on the okami, Emiko Hirabayashi, to step in. She seemed cold and inflexible at first (she initially refused to take the meat off the crab for Mrs. KI-NRT, who had one working arm), then warmed into long, engaging conversations and a tour of the property. There are no English-speaking staff yet."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "Quality splits sharply by category. KI-NRT's 77m² Nishinokaze suite was clean, contemporary and comfortable, a bit tight but with an incredible balcony over the ocean and bay and its own brown onsen tub. The 92m² Kitanokaze \"special room\" already looks tired, with no balcony and no bath at all, and he cannot imagine anyone choosing it over Nishinokaze. Interiors are simple, with no flowers or art, and the bathrooms carry no amenities."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": 4.5,
   "text": "Teisui sits on the remote Oga Peninsula of Akita, where anything resembling luxury is remarkable, and the views from the rooms are breathtaking: an unobstructed sweep of capes, nearby reefs and a lighthouse on Tomi Island that reminded KI-NRT of Prince Edward Island and Cape Cod, like a Monet painting. The building is huge for ten rooms, with a lounge holding far more chairs than it needs and whole floors and corridors left unused."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Akita",
    "hours": 1.5,
    "time": "~1h30",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Teisui is roughly 1.5h by car from Akita city out toward the tip of the Oga Peninsula."
   },
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 5.3,
    "time": "~5h20",
    "transfers": 1,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "Akita Shinkansen Komachi from Tokyo to Akita is about 3h50, then roughly 1.5h by car to the Oga Peninsula."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_teisui-0-52783c65.jpg",
   "tag": "setting",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 263
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_teisui-1-fc55b9b3.jpg",
   "tag": "bath",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
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   "url": "/img/nc_teisui-2-ccaffc76.jpg",
   "tag": "room",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_teisui-3-c3ffa398.jpg",
   "tag": "interior",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 266
  },
  {
   "url": "/img/nc_teisui-4-b1b66f66.jpg",
   "tag": "food",
   "width": 400,
   "height": 300
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://teisui.com/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=14151238704045446017",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 598,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37202321-post598.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": [
   {
    "rating": 4,
    "stay": "July 2025",
    "url": "https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1022320-d7222082-r1020889243-Teisui-Oga_Akita_Prefecture_Tohoku.html"
   }
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}