Yufuin Santokan: 6 Rooms with Private Open-Air Baths, Prices with Two Meals, and Kaiseki in Your Room

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Yufuin Santokan is a wooden inn with 12 rooms, a 1-minute walk from Lake Kinrin in Yufuin Onsen (Yufu City, Oita Prefecture). Every room’s bath is fed with hot-spring water, and 6 of the 12 rooms are ground-floor rooms with their own open-air bath. Dinner and breakfast are kaiseki meals served in your room, and the two large baths swap between men and women morning and evening. This page covers room types with prices for one night with two meals, the baths, the meals and how to get there from Fukuoka.

In short

12 rooms, all with hot-spring bath water; 6 ground-floor rooms have a private open-air bath.
One night with two meals starts from ¥32,300 per person (2 guests in a room) for a room without an open-air bath, and from ¥38,550 with one. These are the lowest rates shown on the official booking page on October 17, 2026, and not necessarily the lowest overall.
Check-in 15:00 to 18:00, check-out 11:00. Dinner and breakfast are served in the room.
Two large baths with hot-spring water flowing freely from the source; the men’s and women’s baths swap in the morning and evening. Guests can also use the large baths of the sister inn, Tanokura.
From Hakata, the limited express “Yufuin no Mori” takes about 2 hours 10 to 20 minutes to Yufuin Station.

Checked with official pages on October 17, 2026 (Japan time).

Note: The official booking page is in Japanese. This page does not say whether the staff speak English. In a Japanese inn, guests usually wear the provided yukata, and the shared baths are separated by gender and used without a swimsuit.

1. Room types and prices for one night with two meals

The rooms are in a pure Japanese style built of hinoki cypress, with 6 ground-floor rooms with an open-air bath (newly built in April 2009). These are the rooms you can choose in the official “basic plan with two meals” and the lowest rates shown on October 17, 2026.

Room	Capacity	Per person (2 guests per room), from
1st floor, 8-mat Japanese room (no open-air bath)	1-2	¥32,300~
1st floor, 8-mat Japanese room with open-air bath	1-2	¥38,550~
1st floor, 8-mat Japanese room with open-air bath + twin-bed room	1-2	¥42,300~
1st floor, 2-room Japanese suite with open-air bath	1-4	¥42,300~
1st floor, 8-mat + 8-mat Japanese rooms + veranda, with open-air bath	1-6	¥44,800~
2nd floor, Superior Japanese-Western room (no open-air bath)	1-5	¥47,300~

Prices are the lowest rates (tax included) shown on the official booking page and change by date. Rooms with an open-air bath also have an indoor hot-spring bath, and the open-air bath in the 8-mat room is either a hinoki bath or a ceramic bath. The 2nd-floor Superior room combines a 10-mat Japanese room and a twin-bed Western room. It has no open-air bath but has an indoor bath fed with hot-spring water.

Check-in is 15:00 to 18:00 (contact the inn if you will arrive after 18:00), and check-out is 11:00. Reservations are accepted until 12:00 the day before the stay, and cancellations through the booking screen until 15:00 three days before. For children, the three room types for 2 guests offer child categories of ages 3 to 5 and under 3 (both without meals). Ages 6 to 12 and a children’s meal can be chosen only in the 2-room suite, the 8 + 8-mat room with veranda and the 2nd-floor Superior room. The inn’s terms set the child rate at 70% for upper elementary grades, 50% for lower grades, ¥2,200 for age 1 to preschool, and free for age 0. Official booking page of Yufuin Santokan (Japanese)

If you choose pay-at-the-inn on the official booking page and complete the Yufu City furusato nozei (hometown tax donation) procedure through STAYNAVI, 30% of the donation amount is discounted from the room charge (plans that require card payment in advance are excluded; show the coupon issued at check-in). Oita Prefecture also plans to start a lodging tax in fiscal 2027, ¥500 per person per night when the one-night price is ¥20,000 to under ¥100,000, according to the official booking page (the start date depends on the prefecture’s decision). See availability and prices for Yufuin Santokan on Rakuten Travel (ad)

Rooms have a TV, phone, bath, toilet, heating and air conditioning and a refrigerator, and are stocked with yukata, a hair dryer and a toothbrush set. Each guest gets 2 yukata, one for the evening and one for the morning. The shop in the inn sells Oita specialties, such as products from Guernsey Farm on the Kuju Plateau. Rooms page on the official site (Japanese)

2. Large baths swap between men and women, and the sister inn’s baths are open to you

There are two large baths, the hinoki “Hisen no Yu” and the stone-built “Sagiri no Yu”, both with plain hot-spring water flowing freely from the source. The men’s and women’s baths swap in the morning and evening, so you can try a different bath at night and in the morning. The changing rooms of the large baths also have towels and amenities. Bath page on the official site (Japanese)

Guests can also use the large baths of the neighboring sister inn, “Yufu no Ryori-yado Ryotei Tanokura”. Tanokura has two large baths, “Kinrin no Yu” and “Genryu no Yu”, both with open-air baths, open from 15:00 to 24:00 and from 5:00 to 10:00 the next morning. Bath page on Tanokura’s official site (Japanese)

3. Dinner and breakfast in your room, with Oita wagyu as the main dish

Meals are a Kyoto-style kaiseki course that changes monthly, with Oita wagyu beef as the main dish. Both dinner and breakfast are brought to your room, and the main dish at dinner depends on the plan. On October 17, the official site listed a “basic plan with two meals” with Oita wagyu shabu-shabu, a sukiyaki plan, and a “seasonal selected ingredients plan” that stresses quality over quantity. Breakfast is a Japanese set meal including handmade tofu. Discuss food allergies before you stay; the menu cannot be changed if you tell them on the day. The booking page says that because the kaiseki centers on seafood and meat, the inn cannot accommodate guests allergic to both. Meals page on the official site (Japanese)

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4. One minute from Lake Kinrin: how to get there from Fukuoka

The inn is a 1-minute walk from Lake Kinrin and about 15 minutes on foot from Yufuin Station, via Yunotsubo Kaido street. The trailhead of Mt. Yufu and Sagiri-dai, a lookout over the Yufuin basin, are 10 minutes by car. The official tourist information introduces Sagiri-dai as a place to see morning mist from about October to December. Sightseeing page on the official site (Japanese)

By train, the limited express “Yufuin no Mori” from Hakata takes about 2 hours 10 to 20 minutes to Yufuin Station (all seats reserved; the running days are set by JR Kyushu’s operating calendar, and on days it does not run, the limited express “Yufu” runs at the same times). JR Kyushu “Yufuin no Mori” page (Japanese). By car, leave at Yufuin IC, take Route 210, turn right at the Yufuin Iriguchi intersection and enter Prefectural Route 216. Access page on the official site (Japanese)

For walking around Yunotsubo Kaido and Lake Kinrin and for 4 car parks, see our Japanese guide Walking in Yufuin: Yunotsubo Kaido, Lake Kinrin and 4 car parks (Japanese).

Address: 879-5102 Oita-ken Yufu-shi Yufuin-machi Kawakami 1553 · Google Maps · Tel: 0977-84-5310

Official information checked on October 17, 2026 (Japan time). Prices and availability change by date.

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