Yufuin Onsen Hoteiya (2026): Prices by Detached Room with Open-Air Bath, and 2 Private Baths Free for 40 Minutes

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Hoteiya is an inn in Yufuin Onsen with thatched-roof and old-farmhouse-style detached cottages, laid out like a village at the foot of Mt. Yufu. It is about a 5-minute walk to Yunotsubo Street. Every detached room has its own open-air bath, and the 2 private baths are free for 40 minutes. Dinner and breakfast are served in the dining room, and check-out is at 10:00.

In short

Lowest price: Kunisaki and Kotobuki, from ¥31,500 per person (2 people in a room, with dinner and breakfast), as shown on October 18, 2026.
Every detached room has an open-air bath. 2 private baths are free for 40 minutes each.
Check-in 15:00–18:00, check-out 10:00.
From Hakata: about 2 hr 10–20 min by the “Yufuin no Mori” limited express. A free pick-up is available from Yufuin Station.

Checked with official pages on October 18, 2026 (Japan time).

Note: Prices are per person for 2 people sharing a room, with dinner and breakfast (“1 night, 2 meals”), and rise or fall with the date. The official booking page is in Japanese and takes online credit card payment. In Japan, guests at an inn like this usually wear a yukata and eat in a dining room; shoes are taken off at the entrance.

1. Detached rooms and prices for 1 night with 2 meals

These are the detached rooms you can choose in the “Pure Japanese-style 1 night with 2 meals, Standard plan” on the official booking page, the number of guests you can book, and the lowest price shown on October 18.

Room	Baths	Guests to book	Per person (2 in a room)
Kunisaki	Open-air bath, cypress indoor bath	2–3	¥31,500~
Kotobuki	Open-air bath	2–3	¥31,500~
Tsurumi	Open-air bath, cypress indoor bath	2–3	¥32,400~
Takasago	Open-air bath, cypress indoor bath	2–3	¥33,300~
Yufu (2nd floor)	Open-air bath	2–4	¥37,800~
Hotei-no-Ma	Open-air bath	2–4	¥39,600~
Fuji	Open-air bath, indoor bath	2–4	¥40,500~
Shitaka	Open-air bath	2–4	¥41,400~
Oyama	Open-air bath	2–4	¥43,200~
Naokawa	Open-air bath	2–4	¥43,200~
“Omakase” detached room (inn chooses)	Open-air bath	2–4	¥33,000~

Prices are the lowest shown on the official booking page (tax included) and change by date. The guest numbers are those you can choose in this plan; on the official rooms page, Oyama, Naokawa, Shitaka and Fuji are rooms that sleep up to 6. The “Omakase” room is a detached room with an open-air bath that the inn chooses for you. The lowest price is ¥31,500~ for Kunisaki and Kotobuki. Oyama and Naokawa, with 3 spaces (living room, bedroom and relaxation room), are ¥43,200~. A plan with a black wagyu sirloin steak kaiseki is ¥38,000~ in Kunisaki and Kotobuki. There are also plans with breakfast only, no meals, and for solo travelers.

Oyama, Naokawa and Shitaka have a shower room and a massage chair as well as the open-air bath. Hotei-no-Ma has a thatched roof and visible ceiling beams. Yufu is a 2nd-floor room with a view of Mt. Yufu. Yufu and Tsurumi are each a 2-unit building, and the upper and lower floors are separate rooms. Tsurumi and Takasago are relocated old farmhouses. The detached rooms on the official rooms page are the 10 in the table plus “Asagiri”, which has an open-air rock bath with a roof. The main building’s 2nd-floor rooms without a bath, the Western-style “Lavender” and Japanese-style “Kokonoe”, are also listed, but on October 18 the rooms you could choose in the official plan were the detached rooms in the table. Detached rooms page, Hoteiya official site (Japanese)

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Check-in is 15:00–18:00 (contact the inn if you will arrive after 18:00), and check-out is 10:00. Official booking is by online credit card payment, and booking, changes and cancellation are accepted until 15:00 on the day before the stay. For children, the Standard plan booking screen lets you choose ages 6–12 (the same meal as adults or a children’s meal), ages 3–5 and under 3. The phone number is 0977-84-2900. Official booking page, Hoteiya (Japanese)

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2. Open-air baths “Benten-no-Yu” and “Daikoku-no-Yu”, and 2 private baths free for 40 minutes

The large baths are open-air baths. In the official plan description, the women’s bath is “Benten-no-Yu”, laid with Amakusa whetstone, and the men’s bath is “Daikoku-no-Yu”. You can use them from 15:00 to 23:00 and from 6:00 to 9:00 the next morning. The 2 private baths are the indoor “Hotei-no-Yu” and “Yufudake-no-Yu”, with a view of Mt. Yufu. Each is free for 40 minutes, and you can use them any time they are free. Private-bath hours are also 15:00–23:00 and 6:00–9:00, and you book at the main building lobby. The hot spring in your room can be used from check-in to check-out. The water is a simple spring, and the official site says it is rich in metasilicic acid. Hot spring page, Hoteiya official site (Japanese).

3. Dinner and breakfast in the dining room: creative kaiseki with Kyushu ingredients

Dinner and breakfast are both served at “Mokumen Saryo” or the dining room on the 2nd floor of the main building. Dinner starts between 17:30 and 18:30, and breakfast between 7:30 and 8:30. Dinner is creative cooking by a head chef with 30 years in Japanese cuisine, and the ingredients and dishes change with every visit. The standard main dish is Bungo beef grilled on a magnolia leaf (hoba-yaki) from Oita, and the sashimi uses fish from the Bungo Channel. Breakfast is described on the official site as a daily Japanese or Western one-plate meal (the Standard plan describes a Japanese set meal). Meals page, Hoteiya official site (Japanese)

4. Yoppy-tei potatoes and eggs, and drinks at Rokkakudo

At “Yoppy-tei” next to the lobby, potatoes and eggs steamed in hot spring water are prepared to match check-in time. In the evening you can make popcorn and rice crackers at the hearth, and the inn’s “Popcorn Uncle” shows you how. There are also spinning tops and kendama cups-and-ball toys. At the post-bath lounge “Rokkakudo”, cold herbal tea and other drinks are served, and in the morning you can drink milk. A soft-drink vending machine is in front of the family bath. Facilities page, Hoteiya official site (Japanese)

5. A 5-minute walk to Yunotsubo Street, and getting there from Fukuoka

It is about a 5-minute walk from the inn to Yunotsubo Street, 6 minutes to the public bath Shimon-yu and Floral Village, 8 minutes to Lake Kinrin, and 21 minutes to Yufuin Station. Sagiri-dai, which looks down on the Yufuin basin, is about 7 minutes by car. Access page, Hoteiya official site (Japanese)

By train, the “Yufuin no Mori” limited express from Hakata takes about 2 hours 10–20 minutes to Yufuin Station (all seats reserved; on days it does not run, the “Yufu” limited express runs at the same times). “Yufuin no Mori” page, JR Kyushu (Japanese). After you arrive at Yufuin Station or the bus center in front of the station, call the inn and they usually come to pick you up in 7–10 minutes. The pick-up is free, and you tell them when you book if you want it.

For walking around Yunotsubo Street and Lake Kinrin and for 4 parking lots, see our article on walking in Yufuin (Japanese). For the latest prices, availability and guest ratings, see the Hoteiya page on Rakuten Travel (ad) and Jalan (ad).

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