{
 "slug": "uoshizu",
 "name": "Uoshizu",
 "url": "https://ryokancatalog.com/inn/uoshizu",
 "location": "Yugawara",
 "prefecture": "Kanagawa",
 "region": "Kanto",
 "geo": {
  "lat": 35.16,
  "lng": 139.09
 },
 "tier": "D",
 "score": 4.9,
 "score_scale": "1-10",
 "unscored": false,
 "confidence": "low",
 "evidence": {
  "units": 1,
  "op_stays": 0,
  "member_stays": 1
 },
 "kinrt_rank_claim": null,
 "rooms": null,
 "property_type": "Onsen ryokan",
 "style": "Mid-tier onsen ryokan",
 "features": {
  "in_room_onsen": null,
  "meals_in_room": null
 },
 "summary": "A Yugawara ryokan that is a cautionary tale about the bottom of the price range. At roughly 30,000 yen for two with kaiseki half-board, benihana320 found the service lacking and the building a little run-down, and KI-NRT's response was blunt: you cannot expect awesomeness at that price. The one stay in the thread ended in disappointment and benihana320 would not return.",
 "aspect_scale": "1-5",
 "aspects": {
  "cuisine": {
   "label": "Food",
   "score": 3,
   "text": "The kaiseki meals are the one part of benihana320's May 2025 stay that drew no complaint: the food was not too bad, which is as far as the praise goes, and no dish is named."
  },
  "onsen": {
   "label": "Bath",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Uoshizu is in Yugawara, a hot-spring town, but nobody in the thread has written about the baths here, so the water situation is unknown."
  },
  "service": {
   "label": "Service",
   "score": 2.5,
   "text": "The quality of service was lacking on benihana320's May 2025 stay, and that was the main disappointment. benihana320 had not thought of Uoshizu as a cheap pick and left asking the thread what the price floor now is for excellent service in a well-kept building; KI-NRT's answer was that at Uoshizu's rate for two, half board included, you cannot expect awesomeness."
  },
  "room": {
   "label": "Room",
   "score": 2.5,
   "text": "The building seemed a little run-down to benihana320 in May 2025, and that is the extent of it; nobody in the thread describes the rooms themselves."
  },
  "setting": {
   "label": "Place",
   "score": null,
   "text": "Uoshizu is in Yugawara, but nobody in the thread has written about the location or the grounds here."
  }
 },
 "transit": {
  "cities": [
   {
    "city": "Tokyo",
    "hours": 1.6,
    "time": "~1h35",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "JR Tokaido Line / Odoriko LEX Tokyo->Yugawara ~1h20, then ~15 min by car."
   },
   {
    "city": "Odawara",
    "hours": 0.5,
    "time": "~0h30",
    "transfers": 0,
    "estimated": true,
    "text": "JR Odawara->Yugawara ~15 min, then ~15 min by car."
   }
  ],
  "note": ""
 },
 "photos": [],
 "links": {
  "website": "https://www.uoshizu.net/",
  "map": "https://www.google.com/maps?cid=9787486570176397703",
  "jp_site": null,
  "flyertalk_reviews": [],
  "flyertalk_discussion": [
   {
    "post": 533,
    "author": "benihana320",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37080238-post533.html"
   },
   {
    "post": 534,
    "author": "KI-NRT",
    "url": "https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/37080285-post534.html"
   }
  ],
  "tripadvisor": []
 },
 "as_of": "2026-09-07"
}