Hazu Gassyo

This hotel, as said before, has only 5 rooms. We went there during weekdays and we had a wonderful experience, we were the only guests in the ryokan and so everything was simply perfect. Our room was absolutely amazing, comfortable, clean, silent and... perfect! When we arrived at the ryokan we were served a cup of maccha and a sweet prepared with maccha too... delicious and tasty! Then we had great time in "public" onsen... I wrote "public" because, as there were only us as guest, "public" onsen turned to be "private" onsen and we could take a bath together in the same onsen (if more guest would have been there onsen would have been separated by gender). They have a shuttle service to reach other onsen nearby, we tried it and it was a great, but the experience we had in Hazu Gassho was absolutely unforgettable! We choose a full course dinner and everything was tasteful and totally well presented... I've never seen such a care in both the preparation of the food and its presentation on the table (table japanese style). At night the peace and silence are everywhere, the wood all around is simply fantastic both at night and in the early morning. The hotel is quite expensive, but it worth all the money, you can taste the real japanese hospitality, everyone is extremly kind and gentle, I don't know if they can speak english because I went there with a japanese girl, so she talked with the extremly cute and kind waitress while I was eating and enjoying my stay :) If you don't mind spending a bit more yens than necessary it's a good choice to spend a night here: for one night at the ryokan with full use of onsen, full course dinner and japanese breakfast (they serve a very very very good freshly made tofu in the morning, absolutely awesome!) we spent 54300 yen, but the experience we had worth it.