Jikuya

Having stayed at more than 100 different hotels/ryokans in Oita/Kumamoto areas for the past 10 years, we rank this place among the very best when it comes to dinner and breakfast. Some foreign guests would stay here for beds only and go to downtown to eat, which is a real shame. The dishes offered here may not be typically Japanese, but apparently of the gem quality and should not be missed by all means. Another point to be emphasized is the quality of bath water. It is clear and exceptionally mild with a noticeable amount of soda contents, much better than that of Hakusui-Onsen Ruri, which smells of a dash of chlorine as antiseptic for the circulated water. Being freshly pumped up from 150 meters below the ground, this is obviously of the good "onsen" or natural spa quality. But the owners are not allowed to call it "onsen" simply because it has no authorized certificate, which would cost them some hundred thousand yen extra! After all, we can assure you will have 3 exceptional experiences here: food, natural hot bath, and hospitality of the owners, all of the superb level.