Excellent
Location rating score
Yamamotoya
Sauna
Massage
Shuttle service
Rooms available at Yamamotoya
- Non-smoking
- 4 futons
- Non-smoking
- 4 futons
- Room size: 14 m²/151 ft²
- Non-smoking
- 7 futons
- Non-smoking
- 4 futons
A long established hotel in Kinosaki Onsen where guests can enjoy the view of Taiko Bridge over limpid streams of the Daikei River and the scenery of Kinosaki from the window.
Enjoy 4 kinds of locally brewed beer!
A short walk from the hotel is Gubi Gabu, the hotel's own brewery and restaurant where guests can enjoy a refreshing beer and Tajima beef dishes.
Popular dishes featuring Tajima beef include steak, rice topped with steak, beef simmered in local beer, and Hamburg steak made with Tajima beef.
Pasta, sausage, pizza, and other dishes that pair well with beer are also served, so feel free to drop in for lunch or dinner.
- There are no baths in guestrooms, but there are baths in the lodging befitting of a hot spring area, and guests will be provided with a bathing ticket to enjoy the best of Kinosaki Onsen’s public baths. Thoroughly enjoy your stay in Kinosaki Onsen.
What they offer
Accessibility
- Braille support in rooms and public spaces
- In-room emergency alarm
- Sign-language support at reception
Internet access
- Internet access – wireless
Things to do, ways to relax
- Go game
- Massage
- Shogi
- Mahjong
- Sauna
Dining, drinking, and snacking
- Japanese-style tea room
Swimming & soaking
- Family bath
- Large indoor bath
- Open-air bath (non-mixed)
Getting around
- Bicycle rental
- Car park [indoor]
- Complimentary shuttle service (reservation required)
- Car park [free of charge]
- Car park [outdoor]
- Shuttle service
Property's guest policies
Others
Extra beds, if available, are dependent on the room you choose. Please ask the property for more details.
Some helpful facts
Check-in/Check-out
The property
Property announcements
All guestrooms will be non-smoking. Please ask lodging staff about smoking spaces.
Check-in time is 15:00, but luggage can be dropped off at the hotel at any time.
8 minutes on foot from JR Kinosaki Onsen Station, or use the local shuttle bus.
The shuttle bus will be waiting in front of the station around the same time that limited express trains arrive, so tell the bus driver that you are going to "Yamamotoya".
The standard time to begin dinner is 18:00, and the final time to begin dinner is 18:30.
Please understand that dinner cannot be served to guests arriving any later.
The limited express train departing Kyoto at 15:25 and Osaka at 15:11 (Shin-Osaka at 15:05) will arrive at Kinosaki Onsen Station at 17:56. Guests who do not take this train or an earlier train will arrive too late to eat dinner at the hotel, so please take care when planning your schedule. Also, all 7 of Kinosaki's public bath houses can be visited on foot, so checking in by 17:00 will allow guests to experience even more of Kinosaki.
Notice of Hyogo Prefecture Toyooka-shi Bathing Charge
As a consideration for using the hot spring waters of Toyooka-shi in Hyogo Prefecture, this facility and all ryokan in the area are required to pay a bath tax and bathing charges to the city of Toyooka.
Please pay the bathing charge of JPY 200 per adult and JPY 100 per child directly to the ryokan. Note that this is separate from the JPY 150 bath tax.
Bath
Hot water type
- Hot spring
Health benefits
- Nerve pain/Rheumatism
- Neuralgia aid
Spring quality
- Chloride spring
Types of bath
- Private for families
- Private
- Sauna
Exceptional”
Really lovely ryokan located next to two onsens. The food was excellent and the hospitality was superb. Rooms were spacious and clean. Highly recommended!
Exceptional”
good location (near 2 public bath) / clean room and best staff / service.
Exceptional”
Very nice, well kept and classic ryokan, great location in center of town overlooking Otani River. Very personable staff; kaiseki dinner and breakfast served in our room were excellent! No private bath in the room, but the community bath downstairs was mod
Exceptional”
Beautiful location, great accommodation. Great experience for family of 5 - kids 7,9,11
Good”
Room is at another tower too much to walk. flr 8 lobby smelly too. Nice hotel, onsen and dinner very nice and value of money
Exceptional”
Great Ryokan Onsen with a nice private Hot Spring. English spoken. And Yamamotoya made their own beers!
Exceptional”
everything is amazing. The kaiseiki dinner and breakfast are very tasty.
Exceptional”
Excellent service. Great dinner (sashimi, steamed crab, nabe with crab, chawanmushi, fresh tempura, tajima beef) and breakfast (soba, porridge with tsukemono, tamago, steamed whole small fish) served in guestroom, as well as tea and snacks in the room when
Excellent”
The service was fantastic, especially the lady who prepared our meals and bedding, she was very friendly and shared with us which onsen is her favourite. The location of the hotel is perfect if you intend to visit different onsens. The dinner was fantastic
Exceptional”
Una parola: meraviglioso! Se andate in Giappone l'esperienza in un Ryokan è obbligatoria e Yamamotoya ha tutto quello che serve. Le camere sono bellissime, il servizio e la pulizia ottimi, la posizione pure perché siete al centro del paese. E poi vi farann
Very good”
Ryokan was small because everyone is using the 7 Hot Springs outside. Meals were good. Got free shuttle bus service . Will stay again.
Exceptional”
The service was excellent and the dinner was superb. We had a great time at the onset too.
Exceptional”
The Ryokan had was in an excellent location, along the river, within close walking distance of all hotsprings in the town. On arrival, we were met at our car, had our bags taken and our car was taken by valet (fancy!) The staff were extremely helpful and
Exceptional”
Excellent Ryokan that is in a perfectly scenic location by the small river. Staffs are very well proficient in English, very service minded, and devote their lives to serves you!! The Japanese room is beautiful, very clean and very well maintained. Food is
Exceptional”
Excellent Ryokan that is in a perfectly scenic location by the small river. Staffs are very well proficient in English, very service minded, and devote their lives to serves you!! The Japanese room is beautiful, very clean and very well maintained. Food is
Exceptional”
Worth a visit!
Exceptional”
Best ryokan I've ever seen: delicious meal, large nice room, beautiful japanese clothes, access to 7 hot springs. It's definitely worth money you spend on it. 10\10.
Exceptional”
Top service and amazing food! Very customer focused and absolutely worth the cost. A very highly recommended place for a relaxing retreat.
Exceptional”
What can we say? This place was AWESOME in every way. We hope to visit again soon!
Exceptional”
We loved everything about our stay at Yamamotoya. A beautiful room looking out over a garden, superb food, excellent and attentive service, and great fun to put on our yukata each evening and stroll down the street to sample one or two of the public onsen
Exceptional”
Very nice hotel, excellent service and food. Only disadvantage: very early check out.